Joanna Anthony Ellis-Monaghan is an American mathematician and mathematics educator whose research interests include

graph polynomial In mathematics, a graph polynomial is a graph invariant whose value is a polynomial. Invariants of this type are studied in algebraic graph theory. Important graph polynomials include: *The characteristic polynomial, based on the graph's adjacency m ...

s and

topological graph theory In mathematics, topological graph theory is a branch of graph theory. It studies the embedding of graphs in surfaces, spatial embeddings of graphs, and graphs as topological spaces. It also studies immersions of graphs. Embedding a graph in ...

. She is a professor of mathematics at the

Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics The Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI) is the institute for mathematical research at the University of Amsterdam. The KdVI is located in Amsterdam at the Amsterdam Science Park. Robbert Dijkgraaf, Alexander Schrijver, Nicolai Re ...

of the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...

Education and career

Ellis-Monaghan grew up in Alaska. She graduated from

Bennington College Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont, United States. Founded as a women’s college in 1932,

in 1984 with a double major in mathematics and

studio art An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on practice and related theory in the visual arts and design. This includes fine art – especially illustration, painting, contemporary art, sculpture, and graphic design. T ...

, and earned a master's degree in mathematics from the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, commonly referred to as the University of Vermont (UVM), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Foun ...

in 1986. After beginning a doctoral program at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

, she transferred to the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...

, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1995. Her dissertation, supervised by

Jim Stasheff James Dillon Stasheff (born January 15, 1936, New York City) is an American mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works in algebraic topology and algebra as well as their applicat ...

, was ''A unique, universal graph polynomial and its

Hopf algebra In mathematics, a Hopf algebra, named after Heinz Hopf, is a structure that is simultaneously a ( unital associative) algebra and a (counital coassociative) coalgebra, with these structures' compatibility making it a bialgebra, and that moreover ...

ic properties, with applications to the Martin polynomial''. She joined the

Saint Michael's College Saint Michael's College (St. Mikes) is a private Catholic college in Colchester, Vermont, United States. Founded in 1904 by the Society of Saint Edmund, it grants Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in more than 40 majors to abou ...

faculty in 1992, chaired the department there, and has also held positions at the

. In 2020, she became professor of Discrete Mathematics at the

. From 2010-2020, she served as a subject editor of '' PRIMUS'', a journal on the teaching of undergraduate mathematics.

Bibliography

* With Iain Moffat, Ellis-Monaghan is the author of the book ''Graphs on Surfaces''.

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