1 EDUCATION Zahava Wilstein Berry College Department of Mathematics & Computer Science Office: McAllister Hall 353 B PO BOX 495014 Mount Berry, Georgia 30149-5014 706-290-2668, zwilstein@berry.edu http://facultyweb.berry.edu/zwilstein 2011 PhD in Mathematics from University of Nebraska-Lincoln Thesis: Nonlinear Wave Equation with p-laplacian Damping Advisor: Mohammad Rammaha 2006 MS in Mathematics from North Carolina State Univeristy 2005 BA in Mathematics and BA in Philosophy (with honors) from Whitman College EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Berry College 2011 - present Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Univ. of Neb.-Lincoln Summer 2014 & 2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2007-2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant, North Carolina State Universtiy 2005-2007 AWARDS and SCHOLARSHIPS Co-PI on proposal written by R.E. Cone (lead PI). Co-funded by: The Harvest Foundation (in Virginia) and the Henry County Public Schools for $75,000 (2013) Berry College Summer Course Development Grant, $1,000 (2012) Project NExT Fellowship (2011-2012) Nebraska Mentoring Critical Transition Points Advanced Traineeship, $25,000 (NSF Funded) (2010) Preparing Future Faculty Fellowship (2008) Emeritis Faculty Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Mathematics, $1000 (2008)
Curriculum Vitae - Zahava Wilstein 2 Richard H. Larson Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, $7,000 (Fall 2007 - Spring 2009) High pass on PhD Qualifying Exams at North Carolina State University in Abstract Algebra, Algebraic Topology and Analysis (2006) North Carolina State University Alumni Fellowship, $2,000 (2005) North Carolina State University Department of Mathematics Fellowship, $3,000 (2005) TEACHING EXPERIENCE IMMERSE Early-Career Faculty Member As an IMMERSE (Intensive Mathematics: a Mentoring, Education and Research Summer Experience) early-career faculty member I created and taught a course based on understanding a current research paper in applied mathematics to students about to begin graduate school in mathematics. Taught in Summer 2014 and in Summer 2015 IMMERSE Mentor As an IMMERSE teaching assistant I worked with the analysis instructor and other teaching assistants on planning lectures, understanding and teaching a research paper, and mentoring students about to begin graduate school in math. I also held office hours and marked homework. Mentor for First-Year Teaching Assistants (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 2009) In this position, I visited the recitations of all first-time teaching assistants in the Mathematics Department, evaluated the presentations, and then met with them individually to discuss their teaching. Additionally, I held a meeting for all of the beginning teaching assistants to discuss their experiences in the classroom and share ideas. I also led a recitation for a Calculus I class. Instructor Duties include complete responsibility for class lectures, writing and grading quizzes, tests (except for unit final exams when appropriate), and, at times, projects, holding office hours and assigning final grades. Real Analysis (Berry College, Fall 2013) Precalculus (Berry College, Fall 2013, Fall 2014) Mathematics Seminar (Berry College, Spring 2013) Mathematical Modeling (Berry College, Spring 2013) Differential Equations (Berry College, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015) Linear Algebra (Berry College, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014) Calculus I (Berry College, Fall and Spring, 2011-2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015)
Curriculum Vitae - Zahava Wilstein 3 Nature of Mathematics (Berry College, Fall and Spring, 2011-2012, Spring 2012) Applied Calculus (Berry College, Spring 2012, Fall 2014) Concepts in One Health (one week of Spring 2015) Trigonometry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Spring 2011) Analytic Geometry and Calculus II (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Summer 2009) College Algebra (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Spring 2009) Analytic Geometry and Calculus III (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 2008) Geometry for Elementary Education Majors (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Summer 2008) Contemporary Mathematics (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Spring 2008) College Algebra and Trigonometry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 2007) Analytic Geometry and Calculus II (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Summer 2007) Calculus II (North Carolina State University, Spring 2007) Calculus I (North Carolina State University, Fall 2006) Grader Duties include grading homework, and in some cases, grading exams and holding office hours. Measure Theory I (The first semester of the second-year graduate level class in analysis at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 2008) Real Analysis I (The first semester of the first-year graduate level class in analysis at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 2009) Calculus III (North Carolina State University, Spring 2006) Business Calculus (North Carolina State University, Fall 2005) Teaching Training and Continuing Education Innovative Course-Building Group Summer Institute (GCSU-Macon, June 2012) Faculty Internship as part of Mentoring Critical Transition Points Advanced Traineeship - I partnered with Dr. Kristin Pfabe at Nebraska Wesleyan in Lincoln, Nebraska. As part of the mentorship I visited her Differential Equations course and gave a guest lecture to the class later in the semester. We will also discussed the planning and preparation of an upper-level undergraduate mathematics class. Preparing Future Faculty Mentorship (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 2008) - I partnered with Cynthia Farthing at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. We discussed teaching at a smaller, religious school and I visited both her Fundamentals of Mathematics course and her Introduction to the Culture of Collegiate Life course. I also taught a class in her Fundamentals of Mathematics course and observed a Mathematics Department faculty meeting.
Curriculum Vitae - Zahava Wilstein 4 Campuswide Workshop for Graduate Teaching Assistants at University of Nebraska- Lincoln (each August of 2007-2009) University of Nebraska-Lincoln Mathematics Department Teaching Assistant Training and Orientation (Fall 2007) North Carolina State University Mathematics Department Teaching Assistant Training and Orientation (Fall 2005) PUBLICATIONS Rammaha, M. A. & Wilstein, Z. (2012). Hadamard Well-Posedness Nonlinear Wave Equations With p-laplacian Damping and Supercritical Sources, Advances in Differential Equations 17, no.1-2: 105-150. Print. Rammaha, M. A., Toundykov, D. & Wilstein, Z. (2012). Global existence and decay of energy for a nonlinear wave equation with p-laplacian damping, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems 32, no. 12: 4361-4390. Print. CONFERENCES ATTENDED MathFest (Washington, D.C, August 2015) Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium (Atlanta, February 2015) Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (Lincoln, January 2015) Mathematical Association of America Southeast Section Meeting (Tennessee Tech University, March 2014) Georgia Scientific Computing Symposium (Kennesaw State University, February 2014) Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (Lincoln, January 2014) Allegheny Mountain Section NExT Fall Workshop (Slippery Rock, September 2013) HHMI Quantitative Biology Conference (Atlanta, June 2013) HCPS/MCPS 2013 Summer Mathematics Institute. (Martinsville, May 2013) Mercer University Undergraduate Research in Mathematics Conference (Macon, February 2013) Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (Lincoln, January 2013) Kennesaw Mountain Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (October 2012)
Curriculum Vitae - Zahava Wilstein 5 MathFest (Madison, August 2012) Legacy of R.L. Moore Conference (Austin, June 2012) Mathematical Association of America Southeast Section Meeting (Clayton State University, March 2012) Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (Lincoln, January 2012) Joint Mathematics Meetings (Boston, January 2012) Kennesaw Mountain Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (November 2011) MathFest (Lexington, August 2011) Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics (Lincoln, January 2011) Joint Mathematics Meetings (New Orleans, January 2011) Conference on Harmonic Analysis and PDE s (Lincoln, April 2010) Joint Mathematics Meetings (San Francisco, January 2010) Prairie Analysis Seminar (Kansas State University, October 2009) Young Mathematicians Conference - University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department Representative (Ohio State University, August 2009) Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics - Invited Graduate Student from University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Lincoln, NE, January 2009) Iowa-Nebraska Functional Analysis Seminar (Drake University, April 2008) Graduate Student Topology Conference (Indiana University, April 2006) TALKS What do you call an herbivorous dinosaur sliding down a hill on spinners: An introduction to the calculus of variations. Florida Gulf Coast University. Fort Myers, FL. 13 March, 2015. Methods for Democratizing Inquiry for K-16 Students and Teachers, with Greenstein, S. and Buell, C., Joint Mathematics Meetings. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. San Antonio, TX. 12 January, 2015.
Curriculum Vitae - Zahava Wilstein 6 Infusing Precalculus with the Life Sciences. (MAA-Southeast Section Meeting, Tennessee Tech University, March 2014) Experiment, Explore, Develop: Using Technology and Inquiry-Based Learning to Get Students to Act Like Scientists. (Allegheny Mountain Section NExT Fall Workshop, Slippery Rock University, September 2013) What do you call an herbivorous dinosaur sliding down a hill on spinners: An introduction to the calculus of variations. (Slippery Rock University, September 2013) Special Session on IBL Part III IBLs Excellent Adventure: Mathematical Experiments with Technology. (HCPS/MCPS Summer Mathematics Institute, New College Institute. Martinsville, VA. 31 May, 2013.) Recurrence Relations and Differential Equations Part I. (HCPS/MCPS Summer Mathematics Institute, New College Institute. Martinsville, VA. 30 May, 2013.) Recurrence Relations and Differential Equations Part II. (HCPS/MCPS Summer Mathematics Institute, New College Institute. Martinsville, VA. 30 May, 2013.) Energy Decay Rates of Potential Well Solutions to a Nonlinear Equation with p-laplacian Damping (MAA-Southeast Section Meeting, Clayton State University, March 2012) Dams and Pendulums - Working With Calculus I Concepts (MAA-Southeast Section Meeting, Clayton State University, March 2012) Local Existence of Solutions to a Wave Equation with p-laplacian Damping, Parts I -III (University of Nebraska-Lincoln Partial Differential Equations Seminar, August and September 2010) An Introduction to the Calculus of Variations (University of Nebraska-Lincoln Graduate Student Seminar, March 2010) An Introduction to the Calculus of Variations (Nebraska Wesleyan, April 2010) An Alternate Proof of the Countability of the Rationals (Creighton University, November 2008) STUDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS A mathematical description of vascular remodeling. With Sarah Myers, Austin Marlow, Daniel Alligood and Chris Mingone. Ongoing. Preliminary results presented at Berry Symposium for Student Scholarship.
Curriculum Vitae - Zahava Wilstein 7 Modeling and simulations of cell-signaling pathways involved with high-fat diets and heart disease, with Sarah Myers and Dr. Chris Mingone Anna Chan s research project and poster Wait time in emergency rooms based on triage level presented at the Mathematical Association of America-Southeast Section Meeting, 2013 SERVICE Co-organized the themed contributed paper session Democratizing Access to Authentic Mathematical Activity (Washington D.C., MathFest 2015) School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Academic Council Representative (Berry College, Fall 2014 to current) Co-creator and co-organizer of Investigation Mastication, Berry College s campus wide research lunch for untenured faculty members (Fall 2013 to current) New Faculty Orientation Panel (Berry College, August 2012, 2013, 2014) Discover Berry Volunteer (Oct. 2011 and Nov. 2013) Berry College Year of Service cottage mentor (2013-2015) Dean of School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Hiring Committee member (Berry College, 2013-2014 search) Assistant Professor of Mathematics Hiring Committee member (Berry College, 2012-2013 search) Development of Undergraduate Research Committee member (Berry College, 2012-2013 academic year) Center for Teaching Excellence Committee member (Berry College, Fall 2012 to current) Organized panel on Inquiry-Based Learning for Project NExT fellows at 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings. Member of Graduate Student Advisory Board (University of Nebraska-Lincoln Mathematics Department, Spring 2009 - Spring 2010) Member of search committee for tenure-track analysis faculty (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Fall 2009-Spring 2010)
Curriculum Vitae - Zahava Wilstein 8 Liaison for recruiting weekend between Mathematics Department Graduate Recruiting Chair and current graduate students (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Spring 2009) Invited panelist for six separate panels for many groups of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Math Department graduate students, including first time teachers, first time Calculus instructors, the Mathematics Literature class and students preparing to choose an advisor.