S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963.
M.S., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1965.
Ph.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 1969.
Professional Experience:
1974- Wellesley College
Professor of Mathematics since 1983, Emeritus
since 2015
Associate Dean of the College, 1989-92
1971-74 Mount Holyoke College, Assistant Professor of
Mathematics
1968-71 University of Toledo, Assistant Professor of
Mathematics
Visiting Positions:
2004-05 UMASS-BOSTON, Visiting Professor and Scientist
1984 MIT Operations Research Center, Visiting
Scientist, spring
1981 Transportation Systems Center, Faculty Fellow,
summer
1979-80 MIT Operations Research Center, Research Fellow
Research Interests:
I am interested in discrete mathematics, operations research, and
functional analysis. My current research, with Randy Shull and Ann
Trenk, involves aspects
of partially ordered sets and interval orders.
Teaching:
I retired from teaching in 2015. I taught courses across the
mathematics curriculum, including calculus, linear algebra,
probability and statistics, real analysis, and optimization /
operations research.
Alumnae Profiles: Wellesley College (with M. Kerr and A.
Trenk), Math Horizons, Feb. 2005, 22-24.
The Joy of Mathematica: Instant Mathematica for Calculus,
Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra (with F.
Shultz), 2nd ed., Harcourt/Academic Press 2000; 1st ed.,
Addison-Wesley, 1994; Japanese translation, Addison-Wesley Japan
and Toppan Publ, 1995.
Arc weighting in hidden bicircular networks (with R. Shull, J.
Orlin, and M. Lepp), Congressus Numerantium 125(1997),
161-171.
Computing in the curriculum at Wellesley College, in Technology
and Teaching, ed. L. Lloyd, Information Today, 1997,
35-40.
Recognizing hidden bicircular networks (with R. Shull, J.
Orlin, and M. Lepp), Discrete Appl. Math. 41(1993),
13-53.
Lotteries, present values, and infinite series, NLA News,
October 1989, 16-17.
The structure of bases in bicircular matroids (with R. Shull,
J. Orlin, and M. Gardner), Discrete Appl. Math.
23(1989), 267-283.
Medical technology and critical decisions: an
interdisciplinary course in technological literacy (with T.
Ducas, J. Grant), Bull. Science, Technology, and Society
7(1987), 71-77.
Generalized least squares and eigenvalues, American Math.
Monthly 92(1985), 656-659.
Matrix and network models in archaeology, Mathematics
Magazine 57(1984), 3-14.
Book review: Raisonnement et Méthodes Mathématiques en
Archéologie, M. Borillo et al., eds., Math.
Intelligencer 5(1983), 68-69.
Infrabarreled spaces, linear operators and vector measures, Bull.
Soc. Royale Sci. Liège 48(1979), 153-157.
Spectral measures and homomorphisms, Rev. Roumaine Math.
Pures et Appl. 23(1978), 939-945.
Vector measures and scalar operators in locally convex
spaces, Michigan Math. J. 24(1977), 303-310.
Integral representation theorems in topological vector
spaces, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 172(1972), 373-397.
Approximation of vector-valued continuous functions, Proc.
Amer. Math. Soc. 31(1972), 97-103.
Genealogy Articles and Talks:
History of Jewish Migration the Diaspora, and Changing
National Borders, IAJGS International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy, London, 2023.
Finding Jewish Records from the Russian Empire, Bedford Free
Public Library (MA), 2023.
Tracing A Family: Odessa, Philadelphia, New York, Palestine, Avotaynu,
36, no. 3(Fall 2020), 43-45.
Life Under the Tsars: Registration, Residence and Exit Routes,
IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, San Diego
(virtual), 2020.
Immigration Quotas: Their Effect on Ellis Island, Providence,
and Boston, Mass-Pocha, 29, no. 2(June 2020), 15-17.
Ukrainian Records from the Russian Empire, Jewish Genealogical
Society of Greater Boston, 2016.
History of a Jewish Town: Talne, Ukraine, Jewish Genealogical
Society of Greater Boston, 2016.
Jewish Genealogical Research in the Post-Soviet Era, Newton
Free Library (MA), 2014.
Internal Jewish Migration to Agricultural Colonies in the
Russian Empire, IAJGS International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy, Boston 2013.
