Madeline M. Parker

Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Williams College

Hello! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Williams College. I am an applied mathematician with a focus in areas partial differential equations (PDE) and dynamical systems applied to fluid-structure interaction problems and mathematical biology. Prior to joining Williams College, I was a Postdoctoral Associate and NIH-NINDS T32 Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh under Chengcheng Huang and working with Jonathan Rubin, Catalin Trenchea, and Martina Bukač (U.Notre Dame) from August 2021-August 2024.

I earned my PhD in Applied Mathematics with a specialization in nonlinear dynamics and chaos from the Integrated and Applied Mathematics Program at University of New Hampshire in May 2021 under Marianna Shubov. My thesis was a PDE analysis to generate a closed-form solution representing blood flow through a flexible channel representing vascular flow. Prior to my graduate work, I earned my BA at Elon University in Applied Mathematics in May 2015.

I am originally from Spring Creek, NV but moved and attended middle and high school in Massachusetts so I consider my roots to be both in the West and in New England. When not doing mathematics, I enjoy hiking, painting, and hanging with my two cats, Todd and Murphy.