Dr. Sarah Mason
Associate Professor
Office: 334 Manchester Hall
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Home Page: http://www.wfu.edu/~masonsk/
Email: masonsk ‘at’ wfu.edu
Degrees:
B.S., University of Georgia, 2001
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2006
Research Interests: Algebraic Combinatorics, Representation Theory
Papers:
A geometric and combinatorial view of weighted voting (with Jason Parsley), submitted for publication
Row-strict quasisymmetric Schur functions (with Jeff Remmel), Annals of Combinatorics, to appear (2012).
A graph theoretical approach to solving Scramble Squares puzzles (with Mali Zhang), Involve, to appear (2012).
Properties of the nonsymmetric Robinson-Schensted-Knuth algorithm (with James Haglund and Jeff Remmel), submitted for publication (2011).
Qsym over Sym has a stable basis (with Aaron Lauve), J. Combin. Theory Ser. A, 118, (2011), pp. 1661-1673.
Refinements of the Littlewood-Richardson Rule (with James Haglund, Kurt Luoto, and Steph van Willigenburg), Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 363 (2011), pp. 1665-1686.
Quasisymmetric Schur functions (with James Haglund, Kurt Luoto, and Steph van Willigenburg), J. Combin. Theory Ser. A, 118, (2011), pp. 463-490.
An explicit construction of type A Demazure atoms, J. Algebraic Combin. 23, (2009), pp. 295-313.
A decomposition of Schur functions and an analogue of the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth algorithm, Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire Article B57e (2008), pp 24.
Classes: Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorial Analysis I, Calculus I and II, Linear algebra
Personal Interests: Bike riding, hiking, playing piano, reading, and travel