ABout Me
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Dr. Talitha Washington is a tenured Associate Professor of Mathematics at Howard University. She is currently a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Undergraduate Education. She is interested in the applications of differential equations to problems in biology and engineering, as well as the development of nonstandard finite difference schemes to numerically solve dynamical systems.
Dr. Washington completed her undergraduate studies in mathematics at Spelman College and studied abroad at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Mexico. She earned her master's and doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of Connecticut. She was a VIGRE Research Associate in the Department of Mathematics at Duke University. She held assistant professorships at The College of New Rochelle and the University of Evansville, and most recently, an associate professorship at Howard University. She serves on the Council of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). She earned the Project Management Certificate from Georgetown University, and completed the AFP Fundamentals of Fundraising Course from the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). She is also a graduate of the SACNAS Leadership Institutes, led by the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). She coordinated the EDGE Program (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education) and has led a Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) Research Experience for Undergraduates. Her work on Dr. Elbert Frank Cox, the first Black in the world to earn a PhD in mathematics, has been shared on radio and television stations, as well as in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, easily the most visible journal to all mathematicians. Dr. Washington is a motivational speaker who enjoys sharing her expertise on STEM diversity as well as applied mathematics to a wide range of audiences. Click for high resolution photos. |
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speaking engagements
January 18, 2019: Speaker, Joint Math Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland
April 12-13, 2019: Keynote, Pi Mu Epsilon Conference, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, Minnesota
- Hidden Figures: The Mathematics of Katherine Johnson and Rudy Horne
- Bifurcations as the Genesis of Instabilities in the Numerical Solutions to Differential Equations
April 12-13, 2019: Keynote, Pi Mu Epsilon Conference, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, Minnesota