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Patricia Hersh is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon, within the College of Arts and Sciences. She has previously held faculty positions at North Carolina State University and Indiana University-Bloomington, where she was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. She earned her Ph.D. from MIT under Richard Stanley and completed postdoctoral studies at MSRI, the University of Michigan, and the University of Washington.
Her research focuses on combinatorics, particularly its interactions with topology, commutative algebra, representation theory, and theoretical computer science. She is especially known for her work on combinatorial methods for studying topological structures with algebraic applications, including poset topology, shellability, and total positivity.
The recent publications reflect a strong trend in algebraic and topological combinatorics, with significant work on poset topology, shellability, Bruhat order, and geometric lattices. Her research is supported by the Simons Foundation and multiple NSF grants, including DMS-195393, DMS-1500987, and the RTG grant DMS-2039316, which also funds her students.
- Ruth Michler Prize from the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
She has advised several Ph.D. students, including Annika Christiansen (current), Stephen Lacina, Chetak Hossan, Grace Stadnyk, Molly Lynch, Ruth Davidson, and Rebecca Swanson, many of whom have gone on to tenure-track positions. She is actively involved in organizing seminars and conferences such as the Cascade Lectures in Combinatorics (CALICO) and has served on the editorial boards of prestigious journals including Forum of Mathematics PI, Forum of Mathematics SIGMA, Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Proceedings of the AMS, and SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics.
She is also engaged in academic service, including co-editing books on the mathematical legacy of Richard P. Stanley, and is committed to teaching, offering courses in mathematical cryptography and enumerative combinatorics.
