stephanie atherton — Bio Sites

Hiya! I’m an MS student at UMass Lowell working with Prof. Emily Gunawan in representation theory and combinatorics. I also like geometry, broadly. You can click here for a CV if you wish to know more about me.

Papers

Transfers and Unstable Degrees in the A1-Brouwer Degrees Package for Macaulay2 (with S. Dutta, J. Lopez Garcia, J. Louwsma, Y. Luo, W. Ong, R. Sagarayaj)

Software

A1BrouwerDegrees 2.0 (with S. Dutta, J. Lopez Garcia, J. Louwsma, Y. Lou, W. Ong, R. Sagarayaj)

Writing

Group Scheme Duality [2026]

Harmonic Analysis on Compact Lie Groups [2026 Course Paper]

Modeling Quiver Representations Research Proposal [2026 Research]

MIT Geometry Blogs [2025 Research]

Otis UG Thesis [2025]

Combinatorial Holonomy [2024 REU]

Some Talks and Presentations

Unstable A1 Degrees [AGNES Fall 2025] thumbnail

Unstable A1 Degrees [AGNES Fall 2025]

Demonstrating the Unstable PH Thm [Student Symposium 2026] thumbnail

Demonstrating the Unstable PH Thm [Student Symposium 2026]

Fourier Transform on LCA Groups (expository) thumbnail

Fourier Transform on LCA Groups (expository)

Teaching, Outreach, and Organization

I currently enjoy mentoring a couple students through National Math Stars.

The P-adic People Seminar thumbnail

The P-adic People Seminar

Group Theory Lecture Notes and Course Reviews - Instructor thumbnail

Group Theory Lecture Notes and Course Reviews - Instructor

National Math Stars - Mentor thumbnail

National Math Stars - Mentor

PMP Newsletter - Columnist (Biannual) thumbnail

PMP Newsletter - Columnist (Biannual)

InspiringGirls STEM Slides thumbnail

InspiringGirls STEM Slides

Code Demos

Topology Control [ML] thumbnail

Topology Control [ML]

Class Functions on SU(2) Graph thumbnail

Class Functions on SU(2) Graph

Illustrating Unstable Degrees thumbnail

Illustrating Unstable Degrees

Illustrating the Hairy Ball Thm thumbnail

Illustrating the Hairy Ball Thm

Test primality of Fermat Numbers! thumbnail

Test primality of Fermat Numbers!

Geodesic Pathfinding thumbnail

Geodesic Pathfinding

stephanie_atherton@uml.edu