Sarah Hamilton

    Sarah Hamilton ’07

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    2007

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    I am tenure-track faculty member in the Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science department at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.   I have the pleasure of spending approximately half my time on research and the other half on teaching undergraduate and graduate (MS/PhD) students.  My research centers on medical imaging (e.g., EIT, CT, MRI, ultrasound) using mathematics to develop new algorithms that provide improved pictures for doctors in realistic hospital settings.

    Previously, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher with Dr. Samuli Siltanen at the Centre of Excellence in Inverse Problems Research, in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Helsinki.  Before that, I completed my Ph.D. in Mathematics under the supervision of  Dr. Jennifer L. Mueller at Colorado State University (CSU).

    Upon leaving St. Mike’s I knew my education had been great but I did not realize how wonderful my experience was until I began my graduate classes at CSU. I passed all of my qualifying exams (Real Analysis, Measure Theory, Complex Analysis, Linear Algebra, and Abstract Algebra) on the first attempt.

    I am grateful for the fact that at Saint Michael’s the professors (math especially) were very willing to meet with you outside of office hours and that the focus was on your education (not their individual research and publishing goals). I also appreciate the independent studies work that I did with Professor Kadas throughout my senior year, and her encouragement of my presenting at the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. As well, I value the opportunity I had to pursue a summer research project with Professor Ellis-Monaghan and Professor Pangborn. Learning how to use LaTeX then has proved extremely beneficial in my graduate studies.

    I strongly feel that my liberal arts education at SMC has allowed me to excel in networking and communication in my post-undergraduate mathematics career. Being able to do great math is wonderful, but being able to do great math and communicate it effectively is rare. SMC prepares students for both.