Eleanor Farrington Department of Mathematics and Statistics Boston University 111 Cummington St. Boston, MA 02215   efarring{at}bu.edu

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. --Felix Klein

I am a graduate student at Boston University, working with Emma Previato in Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Number Theory.

Research:

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Papers:

"A Complete Arithmetic-Geometric Mean for E/C," submitted to Archiv der Mathematik.

"Higher Weierstrass Points of Klein's Quartic," submitted to Algebra Colloquium.

 

Seminars & Conferences:

Boston University Science Day, March 2009. Poster

MSRI Summer GraduateWorkshop: A Window into Zeta and Modular Physics, June 2008, Berkeley, CA. NSF supported.

Clay Mathematics Institute Workshop: Automorphic Forms in Moduli Problems of Schottky and Brill-Noether Type, March 2008, Cambridge, MA. Slides

Boston University Science Day, March 2008. Poster

Women in Mathematics in New England, September 2008, Northampton, MA. Session Chair.

SMath: A Conference of Smith mathematicians, September 2007, Northampton, MA.

Developments in Algebraic Geometry: Symposium to Honor David Mumford on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, June 2007, Providence, RI.

Teaching:

Fall 2009: Teaching Fellow for MA 225-Multivariable Calculus

Summer I 2009: MA 142-Introduction to Linear Algebra

Spring 2009: Teaching Fellow for MA 225-Multivariable Calculus

Outreach:

Boston University GWISE (Graduate Women in Science and Engineering)

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