Pamela Harris | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Pamela Harris is a Mexican-American mathematician and serves as Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. She is the cohost the podcast "Mathematically Uncensored" and is the president and co-founder of Lathisms: Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences. Her research interests are in algebra and combinatorics, particularly as these subjects relate to the representation theory of Lie algebras.

Finding and enumerating Boolean intervals in $W(\mathfrak{S}_n)$, the weak order of symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_n$, can feel like trying to find needles in a haystack. However, through surprising connection to the outcome map of parking functions...