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       Featured Speaker

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          Dr. Jennifer Quinn   
        Occidental College
        Los Angeles, California

         

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Biography

Jennifer Quinn grew up in Rhode Island. She graduated from Williams College where she studied mathematics, biology, and theatre. In 1993, she received her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, studying combinatorics under Richard Brualdi. She has since taught at Occidental College in Los Angeles. In 2001, she received the distinguished teaching award from the Southern California Section of the MAA. Jenny is just beginning a 5-year term as co-editor of Math Horizons magazine. In addition to dozens of papers in combinatorics and graph theory, Jenny has co-authored the book, Proofs That Really Count, with mathematician Arthur Benjamin.

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