Teaching History of Kristen Hendricks

Teaching, Mentoring, and Service

In Spring 2023 I am teaching Math541: Introduction to Algebraic Topology II. I am an organizer of the Rutgers Topology/Geometry Seminar and math department coordinator for the DIMACS REU.

Other Activities

Previous courses:

Postdoctoral supervision:

A. Mallick. Current.
K. Raoux (co-supervised with M. Hedden, Fall 2017-Spring 2021). Currently an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas.

Graduate supervision:

Undergraduate research supervision through Rutgers's DIMACS REU:

Relationships between combinatorial knot invariants, Summer 2021. This project led to this paper.
Algebraic invariants of pretzel knots, Summer 2020. This project led to this paper, now published by Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications.

Undergraduate research supervision through MSU's Exchange Research Program:

Combinatorial knot Floer homology and immersed curves, Fall 2017. Co-mentored with K. Raoux.

Undergraduate research supervision as a TA for the Columbia Topology REU:

Heegaard Floer Homology and the Fundamental Group, Summer 2013. Project Head: Jen Hom. This project led to this paper.
Knot Floer Homology and Concordance, Summer 2012. Project Heads: Jen Hom and Peter Horn.
Knot Floer Homology: Properties and Computations, Summer 2011. Project Head: Jen Hom. This project led to this paper.

Invited minicourses:

In July 2019 I gave a minicourse on "Involutive Heegaard Floer homology" at the ISM Discovery School Current Progress in Low Dimensions.
In July 2017 I gave a minicourse on "Lagrangian Floer homology and equivariant Lagrangian Floer homology" at the UCLA Workshop on Floer Homology and Homotopy Theory.
In August 2016 I gave a minicourse on "Involutions and Floer homology" at the William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop.

Conference organization:

In Fall 2022 I co-organized a SLMath/MSRI Semester in Floer Homotopy Theory.
In December 2022 I co-organized an AIM Workshop on Floer theory of symmetric products and Hilbert Schemes.
In September 2022 I co-organized the Connections Workshop: Floer Homotopy Theory.
In Summer 2022 I co-organized the PIMS Graduate Workshop in Floer Homotopy and Algebraic Topology.
In Spring 2019 I co-organized the Midwest Topology Seminar at MSU.
In Fall 2016 I co-organized an AMS Special Session at the University of Denver with Jonathan Hanselman.

Notable outreach:

In Summer 2018 and 2019 I ran a weeklong free-for-the-participants Girls' Topology Camp for middle school aged girls at MSU.
In Spring 2018 I presented at the Spartan Girls' Math and Science Day.

Past organizational roles:

From April-October 2020 I co-organized the Trends in Low-Dimensional Topology Seminar.
From Fall 2016-Spring 2019 I co-organized the MSU Geometry and Topology Seminar.
In Spring 2015 I organized the UCLA Topology Seminar.
From Fall 2011 to Spring 2013, I co-organized the Columbia Graduate Topology Seminar.