Catherine Pfaff's Webpage

Address:

Catherine Pfaff
Department of Mathematics - Hill Center
Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey
110 Frelinghuysen Rd.
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019

Office Hours:

Hill 512, Wed 4:00-5:00pm
If you cannot make this time & would like to talk to me, please email me about an appointment

Electronic Mail Address:

cpfaff "at" math.rutgers.edu

Catherine the Mathematician:

I am a graduate student at Rutgers studying Geometric Group Theory under the guidance of the Amazing Professor Lee Mosher
My research focuses on the action of Out(F_n) on Outerspace in analogue with the study of the Mapping Class Group action on Teichmuller Space.
So I study MCG's and Teichmuller Thry, and I study Out(F_n) and Outerspace, and I play around with long strings of letters.
In the spring of 2008, I organized a Graduate Student Seminar on Teichmuller Theory and Mapping Class Groups.
Last year I organized a Graduate Student Seminar in Geometric Group Theory.
Here's my Curriculum Vitae (It desperately needs to be updated, sorry)

I had a wonderful time at the MSRI Fall 2007!
Pictures in personal section, But check out the notes that I took as an official notetaker for a course on Out(F_n):
Lecture 1 , Lecture 2 , Lecture 3 , Lecture 4

I founded a directed reading program in the Rutgers Mathematics Department: Rutgers Directed Reading Program

Catherine the Teacher:

I am currently TAing for Math 151.
For course materials, etc, please click here (If I still don't have it updated, please email me for documents)
In the past, I have taught Math 135 (Calculus), Math 251 (Multivariable Calculus), & Math 244 (Differential Equations for Engineers & Physicists). I have TAed for Calc I and Calc II for Biosci

I also founded the Rutgers Directed Reading Program in Mathematics, through which I most recently mentored Chris Skalit in algebraic topology.
Past mentees have included Charles Siegel, Aaron Samkoff, Avi Rashin, and Jordan Ledvina.

Catherine Beyond the Mathematician and Teacher:

Pictures from my stay at the MSRI:
Scenes from the MSRI , Yosemite , San Francisco Day Trip , Napa Hike , Big Sur , MSRI Friends , Another Hike

I ran the 2005 & 2008 Philadelphia Marathons for Asha for Education (literacy in India): Pictures from 2005 Marathon. (Not so many photographers in 2008, I also, unfortunately, had to walk the last 6 mi's in 2008 due to a joint injury)
Thank you to all of my sponsors who helped me raise over $2,000 those years!

Other than math and running, I enjoy bicycling, family and friends, traveling, cooking and baking, learning Hindi & Bengali, kids, playing the piano, writing stories, being outdoors and physically active, basketball, and soccer.
I regularly play basketball and soccer (grad_soccer "at" email.rutgers.edu). Please let me know if you're in the area and would like to join in!

Other Pictures (more to come, eventually): Arvind's Engagement, Driving Sister Rebecca to Med School, Padmini's BDay '05, Grad Student Topology Conf '08