THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Curriculum Vitae for Faculty Members

 

                                                                                    Date:    1 April 2010     Initials:

 

1.         SURNAME: van Willigenburg                            FIRST NAME: Stephanie

                                                                                    MIDDLE NAME(S): Jane

 

2.         DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL:  Mathematics

 

3.         FACULTY: Science

 

4.         PRESENT RANK: Associate Professor             SINCE: 1 July 2007

 

5.         POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION

 

University or Institution

Degree

Subject Area

Dates

St Andrews University

PhD

Pure Mathematics

1994-1998

St Andrews University

BSC (Hons)

Pure Mathematics

1991-1994

 

            Title of Dissertation and Name of Supervisor

 

            The descent algebras of Coxeter groups, MD Atkinson, EF Robertson.

 

            Special Professional Qualifications

 

 

 

6.         EMPLOYMENT RECORD

 

(a)        Prior to coming to UBC

 

University, Company or Organization

Rank or Title

Dates

Cornell University

Visiting Assistant Professor

2000-2002

York University

Post Doctoral Fellow

1997-2000

St Andrews University                          

Tutor and Demonstrator

1994-1997

 

 

(b)        At UBC

 

Rank or Title

Dates

Assistant Professor

2002-2007

Associate Professor

2007-

 

 

 

 

(c)    Date of granting of tenure at U.B.C.: 1 July 2007

 

           


 

 

7.         LEAVES OF ABSENCE

 

University, Company or Organization

at which Leave was taken

Type of Leave

Dates

Leibniz University, Hannover

sabbatical

Jan-Jul 09

 

 

 

 

 

8.         TEACHING

 

(a)        Areas of special interest and accomplishments

 

á       2009-10 CWSEI Director, Mathematics.

á       2009-10 Helped prepare successful Cheriton proposal  for CWSEI.

á       2007 Nominated for a Killam Teaching Award (and won, see under prizes).

 

(b)        Courses Taught at UBC

 

Session

Course

Scheduled

Class

Hours Taught

 

Number

Hours

Size

Lectures

Tutorials

Labs

Other

Winter 2010

Math

340-202

3

67

3 per week

 

 

 

Autumn 2009

Math

342-101

3

43

3 per

week

 

 

 

Winter 2008

Math

340-202

3

69

3 per

week

 

 

 

Autumn 2007

Math

322-101

3

37

3 per

week

 

 

 

Autumn 2007

Math

342-101

3

51

3 per

week

 

 

 

Autumn 2006

Math

322-101

3

39

3 per

week

 

 

 

Autumn 2006

Math

442-201

3

31

3 per

week

 

 

 

Winter

2006

Math

342-201

3

65

3 per

week

 

 

 

Autumn

2005

Math

322-101

3

32

3 per

week

 

 

 

Winter

2005

Math

503-201

3

7

3 per week

 

 

 

Autumn

2004

Math

342-101

3

100

3 per

week

 

 

 

Winter

2004

Math

449C-202

3

1

 

 

 

3 per

week

Winter

2004

Math

342-201

3

80

3 per

week

 

 

 

Autumn

2003

Math

230-101

3

60

3 per

week

 

 

 

Winter

2003

Math

442-201

3

35

3 per week

 

 

 

199Autumn

2002

Math

340-102

3

70

3 per week

 

 

 

 

(c)        Graduate Students Supervised

 

Student Name

Program Type

Year

Principal

Co-Supervisor(s)

 

 

Start

Finish

Supervisor

 

Matthew Morin

PhD

2005

 

Y

N/A

Benjamin Young

PhD

2003-4

 

Y

N/A

Vasu Tewari

MSc

2009

 

Y

N/A

Matthew Morin

MSc

2003

2005

Y

N/A

 

 

 

(d)        Continuing Education Activities

 

 

 

(e)        Visiting Lecturer (indicate university/organization and dates)

 

 

 

(f)         Other  


Supervision

           

á       2009 Co-advised postdoctoral fellow Kurt Luoto.

á       2008 Co-advised postdoctoral fellow Eric Fusy.

á       2008 Mentored USRA student Farzin Barekat on Schur Q-functions.

á       2007 Mentored USRA student Andrew Brown on Kronecker coefficients.

á       2006 Co-advised postdoctoral fellow Kevin Purbhoo.

á       2006 Supervised an undergraduate research assistant Josh Fiddler.

á       2005 Organised and supervised USRA students Kristin Shaw and Chris Ryan on Schur functions.

á       2004 Mentored USRA student Kristin Shaw on Schur P functions.

á       2003 Co-organised a USRA group on Cryptography with David Boyd and Greg Martin.

á       1997-2002 Acted as informal co-advisor on PhD thesis ÒHopf algebras of quasi-symmetric functionsÓ Stefan Mykytiuk, York University.

 

            Other courses taught

           

á       2000-2002 Cornell University. Lectured Calculus for Engineers (100 level, twice), Calculus for Life Sciences (200 level, once) and Applied Algebra (300 level, four times).

á       1999 York University. Lectured Introduction to Logic (200 level).

á       1994-1997 St Andrews University. Demonstrated MACTutor computing package. Tutored Calculus (100 level), Mechanics and Group Theory (100 level), Discrete Mathematics (200 level).


Other teaching experience

á       2004 Participated in TAG workshop on bringing breath, voice and passion to your teaching.

á       2002-2003 Participated in TAG workshops on setting boundaries and teaching methods.

á       2002-2003 Developed Math 342 to be run in academic year 2003/4, UBC.

á       2000 Gave one day workshop on ÒIntroduction to LaTeXÓ, York University.

á       1996-1997 Involved in one teaching initiative to raise pass rates in 100 level Mathematics courses and another on inclusive teaching to raise the number of women in Mathematics/Computer Science, St Andrews University.

 

9.         SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

(a)         Areas of special interest and accomplishments

 

 

(b)            Research or equivalent grants (indicate under COMP whether grants were obtained competitively (C) or non-competitively (NC))

 

Granting

Subject

COMP

$

Year

Principal

Co-Investigator(s)

Agency

 

 

Per Year

 

Investigator

 

NSERC

 

Discovery grant ÒEquality of Littlewood-Richardson coefficientsÓ

C

19,000

2005-2010

Yes

N/A

Peter Wall IAS

To bring 20 outstanding UBC early-career researchers together to share ideas and research approaches

C

5,500

2004-2005

Yes

N/A

NSERC

University Faculty Award

C

40,000

2002-2007

Yes

N/A

NSERC

Discovery grant ÒEnumeration in partially ordered setsÓ

C

17,000

2002-2005

Yes

N/A

Leverhulme Trust

One of 20 postgraduate /postdoctoral awards to research overseas - all subject areas are eligible

C

30,000

1997-2000

Yes

N/A

 

 

(b)            Research or equivalent contracts (indicate under COMP whether grants were obtained competitively (C) or non-competitively (NC).

 

Granting

Subject

COMP

$

Year

Principal

Co-Investigator(s)

Agency

 

 

Per Year

 

Investigator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b)            Invited Conference Presentations

 

 

  1. "Quasisymmetric refinements of Schur functions" – March 2010, Combinatorics 2010: Advances, Trends and Speculations, University of Kentucky.
  2. "Equality of skew Schur functions" – April 2009, Alexander von Humboldt  Foundation Meeting, Bonn, Germany.
  3. "Quasisymmetric Schur functions" – February 2009, Symmetric Function Mini Symposium, Emmy-Noether-Zentrum, Erlangen, Germany.
  4. "Quasisymmetric Schur functions" – February 2009, Combinatorial Representation Theory Day, Hannover, Germany.
  5. "Descent algebras, and fields of finite characteristic" – September 2008, SFU Group Theory Symposium, Canada.
  6. "Symmetric and Quasisymmetric functions, I, II, III, IV" – August 2008, Summer School on Schur functions, Seoul National University, S. Korea.
  7. "Quasisymmetric Schur functions" – June 2008, Billerafest 2008, conference in honour of LJ Billera's 65th Birthday, Cornell, USA.
  8. "Quasisymmetric Schur functions" – May 2008, AMS meeting Claremont, USA.
  9. "Multiplicity Free Expansions of Schur P-functions" (poster) – January 2008, MSRI, USA.
  10. "Multiplicity Free Expansions of Schur P-functions" – October 2007, AMS Meeting Chicago, USA.
  11. "A combinatorial classification of skew Schur functions" - December 2006, CMS Winter meeting Toronto, Canada.
  12. ÒCoincidences amongst skew Schur functions"(talk) - June 2006, FPSAC 2006 San Diego, USA.
  13. ÒEquality of Schur and skew Schur functionsÓ(poster) - June 2005, FPSAC 2005 Taormina, Sicily.
  14. ÒMultiplicity free expansions of Schur P functionsÓ(poster) - June 2005, FPSAC 2005 Taormina, Sicily.
  15. ÒMultiplicity free expansions of Schur P functionsÓ - December 2005, CMS Winter meeting Victoria, Canada.
  16. "Decomposable compositions and the equality of ribbon Schur functions" - December 2004, CMS Winter meeting McGill University, Canada.
  17. "Enumerative properties of Ferrers graphs" - November 2003, Combinatorial Potlatch University of Victoria, Canada.
  18. ÒIsotropic Schubert calculus and polytopesÓ - September 2000, AMS Meeting Toronto, Canada.
  19. ÒA matrix interpretation for the descent algebra of type DÓ(poster) - June 1998, Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC) 1998 Toronto, Canada.
  20. ÒA matrix interpretation for the descent algebra of type DÓ - June 1997, Workshop on algebraic combinatorics CRM Montreal, Canada.
  21. ÒZigzags and algebraÓ - June 1996, British Mathematical Colloquium UMIST, England.
  22. ÒZigzags and algebraÓ - May 1996, British Women in Mathematics conference London, England.

 

(e)            Invited Seminars and Colloquia

 

 

  1. "The combinatorics of Macdonald polynomials I, II, IIII" – May 2009, Leibniz UniversitŠt Hannover, Germany.
  2. "Quasisymmetric Schur functions" – April 2009, University of Seville, Spain.
  3. "A combinatorial classification of skew Schur functions" – January 2009, Leibniz UniversitŠt Hannover, Germany.
  4. "Decomposable compositions and equality of ribbon Schur functions" – April 2008 , UNBC Colloquium, Canada.
  5. "A combinatorial classification of skew Schur functions" – May 2007, Le SŽminaire de Combinatoire et d'Informatique ThŽorique du LaCIM, Canada.
  6. "A combinatorial classification of skew Schur functions" - April 2007, Bucknell University Colloquium, USA.
  7. "Using graphs to cure Instant Insanity" -  April 2007, Bucknell University Student Colloquium, USA.
  8. ÒDecomposable compositions and the equality of ribbon Schur functions" - January 2007, Oxford University BLOC seminar, England.
  9. ÒCoincidences amongst skew Schur functions" - May 2006, University of Southampton Pure Mathematics Seminar, England.
  10. ÒCoincidences amongst skew Schur functions" - April 2006, Cornell Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry Seminar, USA.
  11. "Coincidences amongst skew Schur functions" - April 2006, SUNY Binghamton Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar, USA.
  12. "Coincidences amongst skew Schur functions" - April 2006, York Applied Algebra Seminar, Canada.
  13. ÒDescent algebras and fields of finite characteristicÓ - April 2005, University of Minnesota Combinatorics seminar, USA.
  14. "A young(ish) person's guide to symmetric functions" - March 2005, UBC Undergraduate Seminar Canada.
  15. "A young(ish) person's guide to symmetric functions" - February 2005, University of Washington Introduction to Combinatorics Seminar, USA.
  16. "Decomposable compositions and the equality of ribbon Schur functions" - February 2005, University of Washington Combinatorics/Geometry Seminar, USA.
  17. "Decomposable compositions and the equality of ribbon Schur functions" - November 2004, UBC Discrete Maths Seminar, Canada.
  18. ÒEvaluating Littlewood-Richardson coefficientsÓ - September 2004, Peter Wall IAS Early Career Scholar Retreat, Canada.
  19. "Descent algebras and fields of finite characteristic" - July 2004, University of Southampton Pure Mathematics Seminar, England.
  20. "Descent algebras and fields of finite characteristic" - October 2003, Euler Institute for Discrete Mathematics Seminar Technische Universiteit Eindhoven , Netherlands.
  21. "Enumerative properties of Ferrers graphs" - September 2003, MIT Combinatorics Seminar, USA.
  22. "Enumerative properties of Ferrers graphs" - May 2003, University of Victoria Colloquium, Canada. 
  23. "Acyclic orientations and excedance permutations" - May 2003, University of Washington Combinatorics/Geometry Seminar, USA.
  24. ÒAcyclic orientations and excedance permutationsÓ - March 2003, York Applied Algebra Seminar, Canada.
  25. ÒAcyclic orientations and excedance permutationsÓ - March 2003, SFU Combinatorics Seminar, Canada.
  26. ÒPeak functions and Eulerian enumerationÓ - January 2003, UBC Discrete Maths Seminar, Canada.
  27. ÒAcyclic graphs and excedance permutationsÓ - November 2002, UBC Discrete Maths Seminar, Canada.
  28. ÒAcyclic graphs and excedance permutationsÓ - October 2002, Cornell Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry Seminar, USA.
  29. ÒPeak functions and Eulerian enumerationÓ - April 2002, SUNY Binghamton Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar, USA.
  30. ÒThe algebra of card shufflingÓ - March 2002, Colloquium Cornell University, USA.
  31. ÒThe algebra of card shufflingÓ - December 2001, Colloquium University of Kentucky, USA.
  32. ÒPieri operators on posetsÓ - September 2001, Colloquium McGill University, Canada.
  33. ÒThe algebra of card shufflingÓ - September 2001, Colloquium UBC, Canada.
  34. ÒPieri Operators on posetsÓ - September 2001, Cornell Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry Seminar, USA.
  35. ÒThe algebra of card shufflingÓ - April 2001, Cornell Math Club Cornell University, USA.
  36. ÒZigzags and algebraÓ - April 2001, Smorgasbord Seminar Cornell University, USA.
  37. ÒZigzags and algebraÓ - February 2001, SUNY Binghamton Combinatorics and Number Theory Seminar, USA.
  38. ÒPieri operators on posets 2Ó - October 2000, Cornell Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry Seminar, USA.
  39. ÒPieri operators on posetsÓ - April 2000, Cornell Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry Seminar, USA.
  40. ÒPieri operators on posetsÓ - April 1999, UQAM Combinatorics seminar, Canada.
  41. ÒZigzags and algebraÓ - April 2000, York Applied Algebra Seminar, Canada.
  42. ÒPieri operators on posetsÓ - March 1999, York Applied Algebra Seminar, Canada.
  43. ÒA matrix interpretation for the descent algebra of type DÓ - October 1998, MIT Combinatorics Seminar, USA.
  44. ÒThe algebra of peaksÓ - September 1998, UQAM Combinatorics seminar, Canada.
  45. ÒThe algebra of peaksÓ - September 1998, York Applied Algebra Seminar, Canada.
  46. ÒDescent algebras and fields of finite characteristicÓ - April 1998, UQAM Combinatorics seminar, Canada.
  47. ÒDescent algebras and fields of finite characteristicÓ - March 1998, York Applied Algebra Seminar, Canada.
  48. ÒA matrix interpretation for the descent algebra of type DÓ - April 1997, St Andrews Pure Maths Seminar, Scotland.
  49. ÒThe p-modular descent algebra of the symmetric groupÓ - March 1996, RWTH-Aachen Mathematik Seminar, Germany.
  50. ÒThe p-modular descent algebra of the symmetric groupÓ - February 1996, St Andrews Pure Maths Seminar, Scotland.
  51. ÒThe decomposition matrix of the descent algebrasÓ - March 1995, St Andrews Pure Maths Seminar, Scotland.

 

 

(f)         Other

 

 

(g)        Conference Participation (Organizer, Keynote Speaker, etc.)

 

 

á       2010 Plenary speaker at Combinatorics 2010: Advances, Trends and Speculations, University of Kentucky.

á       2010 Invited to Oberwolfach workshop on "Combinatorial Representation Theory".

á       2009- Co-organizer for BIRS workshop on "Algebraic Combinatorixx" to enhance and strengthen visibility of, and begin mentoring network for, female combinatorialists.

á       2009- Program committee member for FPSAC 2011 Reykjavik, Iceland.

á       2008 Moderator for panel "Three things I wish I'd known" at Connections for Women: Introduction to the Spring 2008 programs MSRI.

á       2008 Co-organizer of Research in Teams BIRS workshop "Schur quasisymmetric functions and Macdonald polynomials".

á       2007-8 Co-organizer for 2008 AMS Fall Western Section Meeting, Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, and introduced plenary speaker.

á       2007 Invited to BIRS workshop on ÒApplications of Macdonald polynomialsÓ.

á       2006 Session Chair for FPSAC 2006 San Diego, USA.

á       2006 Invited to BIRS workshop on ÒModuli spaces and combinatoricsÓ.

á       2005-2007 Co-organizer for CRM semester on ÒRecent Advances in CombinatoricsÓ.

á       2004 Co-organizer for BIRS workshop on ÒCombinatorial Hopf AlgebrasÓ.

á       2004 Session Chair for FPSAC 2004 Vancouver, Canada.

á       2004 Chair of poster prize committee for FPSAC 2004 Vancouver, Canada.

á       2004 Chair of graduate prize committee for FPSAC 2004 Vancouver, Canada.

á       2003-2004 Co-chair of program committee for FPSAC 2004 Vancouver, Canada.

á       2003-2004 Co-organizer for FPSAC 2004 Vancouver, Canada.

á       2003 Session Chair for FPSAC 2003 Linkoping, Sweden.

á       2003 Program committee member for FPSAC 2003 Linkoping, Sweden.

á       1999 Organizer 4th Southern Ontario Combinatorics Workshop Toronto, Canada.

á       1998 Co-organizer 3rd Southern Ontario Combinatorics Workshop Waterloo, Canada.

 

 

 

 

10.       SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

 

(a)        Memberships on committees, including offices held and dates

 

á       2008 LEAD meeting participant.

á       2004- Associate of the Peter Wall IAS.

 

(b)        Other service, including dates

           

á       2009- Associate Chair of Teaching Resources, Mathematics Department.

á       2009- Thesis committee member of Miguel Raggi, PhD Mathematics, UBC.

á       2009 Tenure committee member of Mark Maclean.

á       2008- Thesis committee member of Chris Ryan, PhD Sauder School Business, UBC.

á       2008 Thesis committee member of Izak Grguric, PhD Mathematics, UBC.

á       2008 Thesis committee member of Roger Woodford, PhD Mathematics, UBC.

á       2008 Thesis committee chair of Amy Goldlist, PhD Mathematics, UBC.

á       2007-2008 USRA program organizer.

á       2007-2008 Graduate admissions committee member.

á       2007- Faculty mentor for A. Rechnitzer.

á       2007 3rd year honours advisor for mathematics.

á       2004-2005 4th year honours advisor for mathematics.

á       2004 Participated in PIMS graduate orientation weekend.

á       2004 Participated in ÒBeyond First YearÓ for the Faculty of Science.

á       2003-2004 3rd year honours advisor for mathematics.

á       2002-2003 Second examiner of MSc thesis ÒBraid groups, Artin groups, and their application to public key cryptographyÓ Catherine Webster, UBC.

á       2002- Set up and organized UBC Discrete Mathematics Seminar.

á       2002- Set up and maintained UBC Discrete Mathematics webpage.

 

           

(a)   SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

 

(a)   Memberships on scholarly societies, including offices held and dates

 

á       2003- Member Canadian Mathematical Society.

á       2003- Member American Mathematical Society.

á       1994-1997 Member Edinburgh Mathematical Society.

 

(b)        Memberships on other societies, including offices held and dates

 

 

 

(a)   IMemberships on scholarly committees, including offices held and dates

 

á       1999-2000 Member on both Student Awards and Student Recruitment Committees, York University, Canada.

á       1996-1997 Chairman of the Computer Science Staff/Student Council, St Andrews University, Scotland.

 

(a)   Memberships on other committees, including offices held and dates

 

á       2000 Member of a panel dealing with staff/student conflict, York University, Canada.

á       1997 Theory Lunch Talk Coordinator, St Andrews University, Scotland.

 

(e)        Editorships (list journal and dates)

 

 

 

(a)   Reviewer (journal, agency, etc. including dates)

 

á       2008- Referee for the NSA.

á       2008- Referee for BIRS.

á       2008- Referee for Electronic Journal of Combinatorics.

á       2007- Referee for NSERC.

á       2006- Referee for Annals of Combinatorics.

á       2005- Referee for Advances in Mathematics.

á       2005 Refereed 1 paper for FPSAC 2006.

á       2004 Refereed 9 papers for FPSAC 2004.

á       2003 Refereed 9 papers for FPSAC 2003.

á       2001- Referee for Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics.

á       2001- Reviewer for Math. Zentralblatt.

á       1998- Referee for Proceedings of the Seminaire Lotharingien Combinatoire.

 

 

(g)        External examiner (indicate universities and dates)

 

 

 

(a)   Consultant (indicate organization and dates)

 

á       2009 Visiting researcher, Institute for Algebra, Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, Hannover, Germany.

á       2007 Visiting researcher, University of Washington, USA.

á       2007 Visiting researcher, Southampton University, England.

á       2006 Visiting researcher, Southampton University, England.

 

(a)   Other service to the community

 

á       2010 Math Mania volunteer.

á       2008 VSB Math Transition speaker.

á       2006 VSB Math Transition speaker.

á       2006 SFU/IRMACS ÒTaste of PiÓ speaker aimed at high school students.

á       2006 Lower Mainland Olympiad Math Circle speaker at UBC.

á       2005 PIMS Elementary School Math Contest grader.

á       2004 PIMS Elementary School Math Contest grader.

á       2003 PIMS Elementary School Math Contest grader.

á       2003 PIMS Judge at the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair, Vancouver BC, Canada.

á       2002 ÒExpanding your Horizons 2002Ó, Ithaca NY, USA.

á       2002 Panelist on ÒBeing an academicÓ, Ithaca NY, USA.

á       2001 Taught talented high school students on Saturday mornings as part of Cornell Math ExplorerÕs Club.

 

12.       AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

 

(a)        Awards for Teaching (indicate name of award, awarding organizations, date)

 

  1. 2008 Killam Teaching Award (Science).

(b)        Awards for Scholarship (indicate name of award, awarding organizations, date)

 

  1. 2008 Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
  2. 2006 Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Bucknell University, USA.
  3. 2004 Peter Wall IAS Early Career Scholar, Peter Wall IAS.
  4. 2002-2007 University Faculty Award, NSERC.
  5. 1997-2000 Won one of twenty national interdisciplinary Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Scholarhips, from Leverhulme Trust.
  6. 1994-1997 Won an Earmarked Award to fund all aspects of a PhD, from the EPSRC.
  7. 1994 Duncan Medal and Prize  for undergraduate dissertation, Class Medal for Mathematics, Arthur Hinton Reid Memorial Prize for greatest distinction in Pure Mathematics, St Andrews University, Scotland.

 

(c)        Awards for Service (indicate name of award, awarding organizations, date)

 

(d)        Other Awards

 

  1. 2001 Travel Award (600 USD) to attend FPSAC 2001, Phoenix USA, by the conference organizers.
  2. 1998 Travel Award (250 USD) to attend "Algebraic Combinatorics and Applications", Oakland University Michigan USA, by the conference organizers.
  3. 1997 Data Connection Travel Award (150 GBP) to attend Workshop on Algebraic Combinatorics, Montreal Canada, Data Connection.
  4. 1997 Russell Trust Award (600 GBP) to attend Workshop on Algebraic Combinatorics, Montreal Canada, Russell Trust.
  5. 1995 BRIMS Support to attend "New Connections between Mathematics and Computer Science" Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge England, BRIMS.

13.       OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION (Maximum One Page)

 

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Publications Record

 

SURNAME: van Willigenburg                            FIRST NAME:   Stephanie                    Initials:

                                                                        MIDDLE NAME(S): Jane                       Date: 1 Apr. 2010

 

All collaborators contributed equally and names are thus listed in alphabetical order.

 

1.         REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

 

(a)        Journals

 

1.     Refinements of the Littlewood-Richardson rule (with James Haglund, Kurt Luoto and Sarah Mason), accepted November 2009, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 22pp.

2.     Quasisymmetric Schur functions (with James Haglund, Kurt Luoto and Sarah Mason), accepted November 2009, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A, 30pp.

3.     Composition of transpositions and equality of ribbon Schur Q-functions (with Farzin Barekat), Electron. J. Combin. 16:R110 28pp (2009).

4.     Towards a combinatorial classification of skew Schur functions (with Peter McNamara),  Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 361:4437-4470 (2009).

5.     Positivity results on ribbon Schur function differences (with Peter McNamara),  European J. Combin. 30:1352-1369 (2009).

6.     Skew Schur function irreducibility (with Farzin Barekat and Victor Reiner)  Adv. Math., 220: 1655-1656 (2009).

7.     On tensor products of polynomial representations (with Kevin Purbhoo), Canad. Math. Bull., 51: 584-592 (2008).

8.     Compact symmetric solutions to the postage stamp problem (with Hugh Thomas), FJMS, 30: 55-63 (2008).

9.     Schur positivity of skew Schur function differences and applications to ribbons and Schubert classes (with Ronald King and Trevor Welsh) J. Algebraic Combin.. 28: 139-167 (2008). Volume in memory of M Schocker.

10.   Coincidences among skew Schur functions (with Victor Reiner and Kristin Shaw), Adv. Math. 216:118-152 (2007).

11.   Multiplicity free expansions of Schur P-functions (with Kristin Shaw) Ann. Comb. 11: 69-77 (2007).

12.   Decomposable compositions, symmetric quasisymmetric functions and equality of ribbon Schur functions (with Louis Billera and Hugh Thomas) Adv.  Math. 204: 204-240 (2006).

13.   Equality of Schur and skew Schur functions Ann. Comb. 9: 355-362 (2005).

  1. Enumerative properties of Ferrers graphs (with Richard Ehrenborg) Discrete Comput. Geom. 32: 481-492 (2004). Volume in honour of LJ Billera.
  2. Judging Athenian dramatic competitions (with Christopher Marshall) Journal  of Hellenic Studies 124:90-107 (2004).
  3. Peak quasisymmetric functions and Eulerian enumeration (with Louis Billera and Samuel Hsaio) Adv. Math. 176: 248-276 (2003).
  4. Properties of the descent algebras of type D Discrete Math. 269:325-332 (2003).
  5. Shifted quasi-symmetric functions and the Hopf algebra of peak functions (with Nantel Bergeron, Stefan Mykytiuk and Frank Sottile) Discrete Math. 246:57-66 (2002).
  6. The p-modular descent algebra (with Michael Atkinson and Goetz Pfeiffer) Algebr. Represent. Theory 5:101-113 (2002).
  7. Non-commutative Pieri operators on posets (with Nantel Bergeron, Stefan Mykytiuk and Frank Sottile) J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 91:84-110 (2000). Volume in memory of GC Rota.
  8. A multiplication rule for the descent algebra of type D (with Nantel Bergeron) J. Algebra 206:699-705 (1998).
  9. A proof of Solomon's rule J. Algebra 206:693-698 (1998).
  10. The p-modular descent algebra of the symmetric group (with Michael Atkinson) Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 29:407-414 (1997).

 

 

(b)        Conference Proceedings not covered by the above

 

  1. A matrix interpretation for the descent algebra of type D Formal Power Series and Combinatorics, 10th conference, CRM (1998) http://www.i3s.unice.fr/fpsac/FPSAC98/articles.html

 

(c)        Other

 

 

 

2.         NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

 

(a)        Journals

 

 

(b)        Conference Proceedings

 

 

(c)        Other

 

  1. The descent algebras of Coxeter groups PhD thesis, St Andrews University Technical Report, CS/97/9 (1997).
  2. The p-modular descent algebras of the hyperoctahedral group and dihedral groups St Andrews University Technical Report CS/96/1 (1996)

 

3.         BOOKS

 

(a)        Authored

 

 

(b)        Edited

 

á       2003 Edited chapters of ÒAlgebraic Combinatorics on WordsÓ.

á       1999 Scientific editor of the manual for the computing language GAP 4, which is a system for computational discrete algebra.

 

(c)        Chapters

 

 

 

4.         PATENTS

 

 

5.         SPECIAL COPYRIGHTS

 

 

6.         ARTISTIC WORKS, PERFORMANCES, DESIGNS

 

 

7.         OTHER WORKS

 

á       2006 Contributed sequence id: A120421 to Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

 

8.         WORK SUBMITTED (including publisher and date of submission)

 

  1. Expressions for Catalan Kronecker products (with Andrew Brown and Mike Zabrocki), Pacific Journal of Mathematics, August 2009, 16 pp.

 

9.         WORK IN PROGRESS (including degree of completion)

 

  1. A coproduct for quasisymmetric Schur functions (with Christine Bessenrodt and Kurt Luoto) (80%).
  2. Ribbon supports (with Peter McNamara) (30%).
  3. Kronecker products with few constituents (with Christine Bessenrodt) (80%).