Dr. Kathy Hoke
Associate Dean for Research Support, School of Arts & Sciences Mathematics Office: 207 Jepson Hall I am working with ten other colleagues in mathematics, computer science, biology, chemistry and physics developing a new integrated quantitative science course. This “supercourse” fully integrates the material currently in the first course of the major in each of these five discipllines, offering students a chance to more fully understand the connections between these disciplines and to learn how to approach problems from the perspective of multiple disciplines. My research interests lie in building mathematical models using techniques from discrete mathematics. I’ve studied models of games and voting. My current interests are in biological models, including analyzing DNA code using Markov chains and Hidden Markov Models. As Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences for Research Support, I work with students and faculty to find university support for research and creative projects. I am chair of the Undergraduate Research Committee who funds summer fellowships to support students who want to work on research or creative projects in the summer, travel grants for students to present their results at national and regional conferences and research grants to fund costs associated with research and creative projects. I am a co-principal investigator and/or administrator on several grants funding undergraduate research and work integrating mathematics and computer science with biology, chemistry and physics. These include a Science Education grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a grant from the National Science Foundation for the Mathematics LURE Long-term Undergraduate Research Experiences) program and a grant from the Clare Boothe Luce Foundation for scholarships for women in mathematics, computer science and physics.
Associate Professor of Mathematics
17 Boatwright Library Administrative Wing
Office: (804) 289-8089
Fax: (804) 289-8818
Teaching:
Calculus
Discrete Mathematical Models
Operations Research
Probability
Education:
Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill
Selected Publications:
“Early Involvement in Undergraduate Research at the University of Richmond,” with L. Gentile, CUR Quarterly, Fall 2008.
Appendix to “Determination of bias in the relative abundance of oligonucleotides in DNA sequences, “ with S. Vogel* and J. Elhai, Journal of Computational Biology (2001).
“Communication Games and the Canadian Constitution,” with K. Noonan*, The UMAP Journal 18.2 (1997) 95-104.