Karola Mészáros - MIT Mathematics

Curriculum Vitae
Karola Mészáros
MIT Department of Mathematics 2-334 (617) 955-1091
77 Massachusetts Avenue, MA 02139 karola@math.mit.edu
USA http://math.mit.edu/∼karola
Education
Ph.D. in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 06/2010
Advisor: Richard P. Stanley
Thesis: ”Root polytopes, triangulations, and subdivision algebras”
B.S. in Mathematics, GPA: 5.0/5.0, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 06/2005
Current Appointment
Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Awards
2009 MIT Department of Mathematics Graduate Student Appreciation Fellowship in 2009-10; awarded annually
to a woman of superior academic ranking whose research is nearing completion
2005 Akamai Fellowship, tenured 09/2005-05/2006
2005 Association of MIT Alumnae Senior Academic Award; awarded annually to a senior woman student who
demonstrates the highest level of academic excellence and professional promise through course work and
academic endeavors at MIT
2005 Jon A. Bucsela Prize in Mathematics; awarded annually by the MIT Department of Mathematics to a
graduating senior for distinguished scholastic achievement, professional promise and enthusiasm for mathematics
2004 Honorable Mention on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
2004 Alice T. Schafer Prize, runner-up; awarded annually by the Association of Women in Mathematics
2004 Mathematical Association of America Undergraduate Research Award (poster presentation)
Research interests
Algebraic combinatorics: understanding objects in algebra, geometry and topology by unraveling their underlying
combinatorial structure. Statistical mechanics with a combinatorial perspective.
Publications
1. Branched polymers and hyperplane arrangements, joint with A. Postnikov, http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4547
2. Root polytopes, triangulations, and the subdivision algebra, II, to appear in Transactions of the American
Mathematical Society, http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3339
3. Root polytopes, triangulations, and the subdivision algebra, I, to appear in Transactions of the American
Mathematical Society, http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.2194

4. Demystifying a divisibility property of the Kostant partition function,
http://math.mit.edu/∼karola/papers/papers.html
5. Chip-firing and rotor-routing on finite digraphs, joint with A. Holroyd, L. Levine, Y. Peres, J. Propp, and
D. Wilson, In and out of Equilibrium II, “Progress in Probability,” Birkhäuser (2008), 331-364.
6. On the number of genus one labeled circle trees, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Volume 14
(2007), #R68.
7. On low degree k-ordered graphs, Discrete Mathematics, Volume 308, Issue 12 (2008), 2418-2426.
8. On 3-regular 4-ordered graphs, Discrete Mathematics, Volume 308, Issue 11 (2008), 2149-2155.
9. Latin squares and their defining sets, Discrete Mathematics, Volume 308, Issue 12 (2008), 2366-2378.
Conference and seminar talks
09/2010 Cornell Combinatorics Seminar, Ithaca, NY.
05/2010 Invited speaker, Discrete Mathematics Day, Worcester, MA.
12/2009 UM Combinatorics Seminar, Ann Arbor, MI.
11/2009 Dartmouth Combinatorics Seminar, Hanover, NH.
10/2009 UW Combinatorics Seminar, Seattle, WA.
10/2009 Brown University Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Providence, RI.
05/2009 SFSU Algebra-Geometry-Combinatorics Seminar, San Francisco, CA.
04/2009 UC Berkeley Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Berkeley, CA.
04/2009 AMS Special Session on Matroids in algebra and geometry, San Francisco, CA.
04/2009 UC Davis Algebra and Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Davis, CA.
02/2009 MIT Combinatorics Seminar, Cambridge, MA.
12/2008 ELTE Egerváry Seminar, Budapest, Hungary.
12/2008 University of Szeged Combinatorics Seminar, Szeged, Hungary.
11/2008 Dartmouth Combinatorics Seminar, Hanover, NH.
Teaching experience
2006, 2007 Linear Algebra, Teaching Assistant - MIT, 18.06
2007 Calculus I, Course Coordinator and Teaching Assistant - MIT, 18.01
2009 Calculus II, Teaching Assistant - MIT, 18.02A
Languages
Hungarian (native), English, German, Serbo-Croatian
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