Talitha Washington
Talitha Washington | |
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PhD) | |
Thesis | Mathematical Model of Proteins Acting as On/Off Switches |
Doctoral advisor | Yung-Sze Choi |
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Institutions | Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC) (2020–present) |
Talitha Washington (born 1974) is an American mathematician and academic who specializes in applied mathematics and STEM education policy.[1] She was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2018 Honoree.[1] Washington became the 26th president of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2023.[2][3]
Education and career
Washington was born in
Washington served on the faculty of
Washington's research interests include
Education policy and awards
Washington is active in education policy, especially best practices on achieving racial and ethnic diversity in STEM.
Washington helped to champion the once-forgotten Evansville mathematician
Talitha Washington was named a
Selected publications
- Applied mathematics
- R. E. Mickensand T. M. Washington. "A Note on Exact Finite Difference Schemes for the Differential Equations Satisfied by the Jacobi Cosine and Sine Functions" Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, Vol. 19, Iss. 2 (2013), pp. 1042–1047.
- T. M. Washington. NSFD "Representations for Polynomial Terms Appearing in the Potential Functions of 1-Dimensional Conservative Systems" Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Vol. 66, Iss. 11 (2013), pp. 2251–2258.
- R. E. Mickens and T. M. Washington. NSFD "Discretizations of Interacting Population Models Satisfying Conservation Laws" Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Vol. 66, Iss. 11 (2013), pp. 2307–2316.
- E. H. Goinsand T. M. Washington. "On the Generalized Climbing Stairs Problem" Ars Combinatoria, Vol. 117 (2014), pp. 183–190.
- R. E. Mickens, J. Munyakazi and T. M. Washington. "A Note on the Exact Discretization for a Cauchy-Euler ODE: Application to the Black-Scholes Equation" Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, Vol. 21, Iss. 7 (2015), pp. 547–552.
- O. Adekanye and T. Washington. "Numerical Comparison of Nonstandard Schemes for the Airy Equation" International Journal of Applied Mathematical Research, Vol. 6, Iss. 4 (2017), pp. 141–146.
- O. Adekanye and T. Washington. "Nonstandard Finite Difference Scheme for a Tacoma Narrows Bridge Model" Applied Mathematical Modelling, Accepted May 21, 2018.
- STEM education policy
- T. M. Washington. "Evansville Honors the First Black Ph.D. in Mathematics and His Family" The Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 55, Iss. 5 (2008), pp. 588–589.
- M. J. Wolyniak, C. J. Alvarez, V. Chandrasekaran, T. M. Grana, A. Holgado, C. J. Jones, R. W. Morris, A. L. Pereira, J. Stamm, T. M. Washington, and Y. Yang. "Building Better Scientists Through Cross-disciplinary Collaboration in Synthetic Biology: A Meeting Report from the Genome Consortium for Active Teaching Workshop 2010" CBE-Life Sciences Education, Vol. 9, No. 4 (2010), pp. 399–404.
- R. De Veaux, M. Agarwal, M. Averett, B. Baumer, A. Bray, T. Bressoud, L. Bryant, L. Cheng, A. Francis, R. Gould, A. Y. Kim, M. Kretchmar, Q. Lu, A. Moskol, D. Nolan, R. Pelayo, S. Raleigh, R. J. Sethi, M. Sondjaja, N. Tiruviluamala, P. Uhlig, T. Washington, C. Wesley, D. White, P. Ye. "Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Data Science" Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, Vol. 4 (2017), pp. 2.1-2.16.
- V. R. Morris and T. Washington. "The Role of Professional Societies in STEM Diversity" Journal of the National Technical Association, Vol. 87, Iss. 1 (2017), pp. 22–31.
- T. Washington. "Behind Every Successful Woman, There are a Few Good Men" The Notices of the AMS, Vol. 65, Iss. 02 (2018), pp. 132–134.
References
- ^ a b c d e Black History Month 2018 Honoree: Talitha M. Washington mathematicallygiftedandblack.com
- ^ a b "Talitha Washington Elected President of the Association for Women in Mathematics". www.pr.com. Retrieved January 7, 2023.
- ^ a b c Taylor, Tommy Jr. "Talitha Washington Elected President of the Association for Women in Mathematics | The AUC Data Science". Retrieved 2022-02-06.
- ^ "The Rev. Walter Martin Wangerin Jr. Obituary (1944 - 2021) The Times". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
- ^ "Talitha Washington - Biography". Maths History. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
- ^ "Talitha Washington at Howard University until Fall 2012". AceNotes Today. University of Evansville. May 17, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Talitha Washington", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ Talitha Washington at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Talitha M. Washington | NSF - National Science Foundation". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
- ^ Finite Difference Schemes that Achieve Dynamical Consistency for Population Models Thirteenth Virginia L. Chatelain Memorial Lecture presented by Talitha Washington at Kansas State University on November 9, 2017
- ^ Mathematics Professor Talitha Washington Receives Prestigious NSF DUE Appointment Howard University, College of Arts and Sciences
- ^ "HHMI Advanced Leadership Institute Alumni - SACNAS". www.sacnas.org. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
- ^ Hidden no more: Dr. Talitha Washington by Lango Deen, US Black Engineer Information Technology Magazine, January 9, 2018
- ^ Evansville Honors the First Black Ph.D. in Mathematics and His Family by Talitha M. Washington
- ^ Howard University Professor receives Innovation Award US Black Engineer Information Technology Magazine, January 31, 2019
- ^ "Class of 2021 Fellows". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- ^ "The AWM Fellows Program: 2021 Class of AWM Fellows". Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
- ^ "2022 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2023-03-15.