Erin Terwilleger Mullen, PhD

In the spring semester I am coordinating and teaching two sections of the new course Math 1125Q: Calculus Ia until I go on maternity leave March 8. This course is designed to cover the first half of the traditional Math 1131: Calculus I at a slower pace. I am also serving as the faculty director of the Women in Math, Science, and Engineering (WiMSE) learning community. Last semester, I taught and coordinated the FYE course for the incoming freshmen in this community. This semester I am coordinating INTD 3984: WiMSE Lab Research and Outreach, a course open to WiMSE members. We will be visiting different labs across campus and doing science demonstrations in local elementary schools.

I have two areas of research. First, my PhD and early research has been in the area of Harmonic Analysis, in particular using Fourier analysis to study singular integral operators and analysis on product spaces. Second, I am currently working on some projects in Math Education. I am interested in how our different calculus sequences prepare our students and how students learn the practice of mathematical proof.