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Over 100 attended our Math/Stats/Computer Science Reunion/Miniconference Sunday, June 8, 2008, with an inspiring opening talk by Bethany McLean '92 of Fortune Magazine, who exposed Enron, and a closing talk by Professor Michael Hutchings SMALL '92 of UC Berkeley. Check out the program.

   

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 For more department news, see the Math Year in Review.


News from Alums (2 October 2008)

Cordelia Aitkin '93 worked as a lighting designer off Broadway and then went to Rutgers University, where she is working on a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology funded by an NSF pre-doctoral fellowship.

Zan Armstrong '04 taught in the Maine Coast Semester program for high school juniors. Now completing graduate work in Sweden, as well as doing some serious orienteering.

Catherine Bagley (now Beamer) '99 taught at the Bishop’s School in La Jolla, CA until 2003, then moved to Dexter and Southfield Schools in Brookline, MA. She now teaches at the Cate School in Carpenteria, CA.

Daniel Bahls '04: In Law School at Boston University.

Megan Barber '96 is director of the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program of Hampshire and Franklin Counties, MA. She plays violin with the Pioneer Valley Symphony and has started flamenco dance.

Anna Bardone-Cone '91 is a professor of psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia where she uses her math background in analyses of eating disorder research and in discussions about math in the psychology of women course she teaches! She has two children.

Melanie Beeck '04, after  teaching in Switzerland, is pursuing a Master of Teaching in Melbourne, Australia.
 
Andrew Beveridge '91 finished his Ph.D. in mathematics at Yale, taught at Carnegie Mellon, and then moved west to San Francisco, where he did software development. He teaches in the mathematics department at Macalester College in Minnesota.

Douglas Briggs '94: IT manager at Anheuser Busch in St. Louis.

Melissa Brown '04, completing her second year at Harvard Business School, writes: "Though there are few concepts from my Math major...that I will directly have to use again, I really benefited from learning how to break problems into smaller pieces and how to reason through them."

John Bryk '02: Studying number theory in the mathematics graduate program at Rutgers.

Derek Bruneau '94: Working at Lycos.com.

Bob Buckner '83 is chief actuary for a reinsurance company in southern Connecticut.

John Bugbee '93 just defended his dissertation in Medieval literature at the University of Virginia and is starting on finishing a PhD in religious studies.

John Butler '94: Working at the Broad Institute in Cambridge.

Laura Christensen '97: Works as a biostatistician at a company called URREA,  which does research on kidney disease and organ transplants.

Colin Carroll '06 is pursuing a PhD at Rice University.

Charlie Cochran '88 reports: "I am actually using my math skills, performing cost analyses for DoD programs in Washington, DC in a career shift a few years ago from gallivanting around the world in international development work."

Jana Comstock '99: Working on a Ph.D. at Berkeley in geometry/topology.

Mark Conger '89: Recently finished his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Michigan on topics related to card shuffling. He is teaching there now.

Ben Connard '02 is an analyst and assistant portfolio manager with the Laidlaw Group, which does investment advice in Katonah, NY.

Jenny Cotner '94 worked as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCooper for four years, and is now studying at the Sloan School of Business at MIT.

Chris Cox '92: Teaching math at Illinois Central College, where he was granted tenure. In addition to math, he writes novels, two of which have been published.

Elise Cucchi '00 is teaching in the Boston area.

Heather Curnutt '94 received her J.D. degree from NYU Law School in 1999. She now practices litigation in Madison, WI for the firm Lawton & Cates. In her spare time, she enjoys training for and racing triathlons, and competed in the 2003 amateur triathlon world championship in Queenstown, New Zealand and the 2004 world championships in Madeira Island, Portugal.

Diana Davis '07 is teaching mathematics back at her alma mater Exeter Academy and will begin graduate school in mathematics at Brown in 2008.

Howard DeLong ‘57: At Williams, he wrote a thesis on Skolem's paradox under Donald Richmond.  Then went on to Princeton University where he received his Ph. D. in philosophy in 1960. In the same year he started teaching at Trinity College (Hartford) in the Philosophy Department.  He retired thirty-nine years later. In 1970 he published a book called A Profile of Mathematical Logic (Addison-Wesley) which stayed in print for twenty years.  It came back in print in 2004 when Dover asked if they could republish it. He has just finished a manuscript called Perfecting the Pursuit of Happiness: The American Revolution in the Twentieth-First Century.

Ken Dennison '01 received an M.S. in Physics from Cornell, and is now a laboratory instructor at Bowdoin College, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Heath Dill '98 works in the internet industry in the Boston area.

Jesse Dill '01: Pursuing a Ph.D. in biophysics at UC Berkeley. Using optical tweezers to study protein folding.

Michael Donofrio '91 clerked for a judge on the Vermont Supreme Court for a year and now works as an assistant district attorney.

Benjamin Ebert '92: Completed a D.Phil. in molecular biology at Oxford University and an M.D. at Harvard Medical School. Currently working as a hematologist/oncologist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and doing basic research using genomic approaches to study leukemia.

Jay Emerson '92 is Assistant Professor of Statistics at Yale and the Director of Graduate Studies. Jay appeared on ABC's World News Tonight on February 24, 2006, on the effect of dropping three judges' scores in Olympic figure skating.  In 2007 he taught an invited course at Peking University.

Eric Engler '04:  Living in New York City working for D.E.Shaw on a fundamental trading desk.

Dan Fasulo '94 received his Ph.D. and is now a researcher for Applied BioSystems in Bethesda, MD.

Yobelin Fernandez '02 is teaching high school math at The Dalton School in New York City.

Tom Fleming '00 received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California-San Diego in 2006.

Joel Foisy '91 received a Ph.D. from Duke University and teaches in the mathematics department at the State University of New York at Potsdam, where he was awarded Professor of the Year in 2005. He runs a summer research program funded by NSF.

Peter Frechtel '92 lives in Colorado, working as a statistician, doing contract work for the federal government.

Christopher French '95 received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2001, followed by post-doc at the University of Illinois. He is now an assistant professor at Grinnell College.

Artur Fridman '93 received his PhD in applied math from Brown in 2000 followed by a post-doc at Brown.

Eric Furstenberg '97 finished his Econ PhD at the University of Wisconsin. He taught at the College of William and Mary and is now at the University of Virginia.

Topher Goggin '02 is at Notre Dame Law School.

Deidre Goodwin (now Carovano) '91: Received a masters in Math at UNC-Chapel Hill. Went to work for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) as a computer systems consultant for eight years. Moved to Charlotte, NC then to Tampa, FL then to Atlanta, and then back to Tam pa where she’s been since. Since then, she has become a mom! Her favorite job ever! She has a daughter, Zoe, and she and her husband, Bill, have another on the way (boy - due mid-Nov, 2007).

Deborah Greilsheimer '97: Received J.D. from Yale Law School, completed her first triathlon, and has joined the tax practice at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York.

Kristen Grippi '00 has been working with Goldman Sachs, and is taking a break from her role as an investment banker at GS to work with the NYSE Specialist trading unit on improving profitability and winning new business mandates.

Jason Hadnot '99 completed a Masters degree in mathematics at Boston University.

Wil Harkey '00: From 2002—2004,  worked as a capital structure arbitrageur at Sagamore Hill Capital, which required stochastic math as well as careful thinking along the lines of dynamic systems; In May 2004, together with David Cowan '99, he started a hedge fund focused on making concentrated long-term equity investments.
 
Elizabeth Camp Hanson '88: Lives in Richmond. Received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan. Spent 4 years at Virginia Military Institute, 2 years at US Naval Academy, and 11 years as a Naval Intelligence Officer. She has 2 girls Abigail (8/01) and Katherine (3/03), and now teaches math at Trinity Episcopal High School.

Cory Heilmann '00: Working at Eli Lilly.

Martin Hildebrand '86 got a PhD at Harvard in 1990 and is teaching at SUNY Albany.

Patty Hines '00 received an MBA from the Fletcher School at Tufts, and is now a portfolio manager for the Export-Import Bank.

Peter Hislop '77 is a professor at the University of Kentucky, doing mathematical physics. This Fall, ’07, he gave the kick-off colloquium at Williams on the mathematics behind electron flow in solids.

Matt Hoffman '04 is pursuing a PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Maryland in ocean modeling and data assimilation.

Neil Hoffman '04 is pursuing a PhD in mathematics at the University of Texas. He gave a talk in Frank Morgan's session at the 2007 San José MathFest on published papers on his undergraduate research at Williams.

Jon Howard ‘91 got a second bachelor's degree in nursing and is now an RN in the University of Virginia Emergency Department.

Lisa Howard '96 teaches precalculus at Baruch High School in New York City. She is working towards her masters at Columbia.

Hugh Howards '92: Received a Ph.D. from UCSD and then began teaching at Wake Forest University. Won the Reid-Doyle award for excellence in teaching, Wake Forest College's highest prize. The previous year he was named by the Panhellenic Council as one of the ten most respected and influential faculty members at Wake Forest. Has married and had his first child.

Amy Huston (now Goetze) '92: Worked for Kaiser Permanente in CA. She has two boys. Now living in Georgia.

Raphael Jeong '06 is in a performing arts academy in South Korea, training to be an actor and entertainer.

Saumitra Jha '99 is now an academy Scholar at Harvard. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford--As he says, "the dark side got me after all!" Prior to Stanford, he did a master degree in economics and Part III of the Mathematics trips at Cambridge.

Chris Jones '88 is Chair of the Mathematics Department at Horace Mann School in NYC.
 
Anne Joseph '92 spent two years at Cambridge University on a Herchel Smith fellowship, studying history and philosophy of science with Peter Lipton and others. For the next six years, she shuttled between Yale Law School and Harvard to complete a joint JD/PhD (in Political Economy and Government). Then she moved home to DC for four years for, among other things, a clerkship with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a litigation job at the Justice Department. She is on the west coast, teaching at Boalt Hall (UC-Berkeley's law school).

Jonathan Kallay '00: Taught in the Boston area, having gotten married. Now living in Seattle, and proud parent of Oren Daniel Kallay, born June 14, 2007.

Eric Katerman '02: Working on a PhD in math at the University of Texas, Austin. Eric is also learning to fly airplanes, do tarot readings, repair bicycles, and play better squash. He volunteers as a DJ a KVRX Austin and works on various Web sites.

Jeff Kaye '99: Finished an MS in Math/Math Education in Dec '03 at Montclair State University. Currently teaching Math at Millburn High School in Millburn, NJ (his alma mater). In other news, he got married. He met his wife while coaching cross country and winter track for rival schools."

Will Kiblinger '92: After finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and teaching at a small Lutheran college in Pennsylvania, he is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC. His wife also teaches at Winthrop. They have a daughter, Madeleine.

Danny Kim '96: I finished law school and I've been practicing both commercial and tax litigation at Crowell & Moring  LLP, in Washington, DC.

John King '72: "Ten years of teaching advanced mathematics, notably calculus AB and BC and precalculus in independent boarding schools and ten years in school administration have put my studies with professors Grabois, Spencer, and others to some practical use. (I also had a thirteen year run in the communications industry between my school involvements). Now most of my mathematics exercise is managing budgets and financials as well as fundraising strategies for Hebron Academy where I am in my fourth year as Head of School."

Brendan Kinnell '00 is teaching mathematics at Saint David's School in New York City. He is also working towards an MA in mathematics education at Teacher's College at Columbia. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Katie (Fogg '00).

Kat Kollett '93 is a senior web technologist.

Lisa Kuklinski-Ramirez '90 is still working for the same company (MetLife) as an actuary -- and enjoying it! Her job is fairly mathematical. She’s responsible for variable annuity product development -- where they make guarantees on the stock market -- so they end up doing a lot of stochastic simulation work. She and her husband Jorge have one child.

Davina Kunvipusilkul '99: Finished her doctorate in operations research at Cornell where she was on the figure-skating team, and has now returned to work in Thailand.
 
Dan Lee SMALL '99 received his PhD in geometric analysis with Rick Schoen at Stanford. He got married in June, 2004.
 
Gary Lapon '05, working at the Holyoke Health Center in Holyoke, MA, helped organize two annual Holyoke HIV/AIDS Summits.

Alex Levin SMALL '05 is a quantitative financial analyst.

Jared Levine '94 is working at the Department of State.

Adam Levy '88: Chair of the Mathematics Department at Bowdoin College.

Kari Lock '04 spent two years figure skating professionally with Holiday on Ice, touring Europe, Asia, and Latin America. She's now at Harvard University for her PhD in Statistics. She published an interesting review of a book on how to make a killing at the lottery in the September 2007 College Mathematics Journal.

Robert Lopez '03 is working at state street in Boston as a custodian in the financial sector, tracking the pension fund assets of either corporations or public pension programs. Also taking a course in actuarial sciences at BU.

Jonathan Lovett '04 is now Senator Hillary Clinton's speech writer. He published an article on his Williams thesis with Professor Morgan in the September 2007 American Mathematical Monthly.

Holly Lowy Bernstein '93  had a second child, Bryce, born on June 28, 2003.

Aaron Magid '04 is pursuing a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Michigan (and his website there is www-personal.umich.edu/~magid/ ). He’s still running, trying to grow bonsai trees, and studying topology and hyperbolic geometry. He caught up with Colin Adams, Thomas Kindred '07, Neil Hoffman '04, and Eric Schoenfeld '03 at the Park City Math Institute in low-dimensional topology in summer ‘06.

Edvard Major '03: is still living in New York City, and has recently joined a hedge fund, Och Ziff Capital Management, as an Equity Derivatives Junior Portfolio Manager. Previously worked at JPMorgan as a Quantitative Trader and Strategist.

Peter McKelvey '86: "We had a fantastic time at our 15th reunion in June, and one of the key highlights was seeing Professor Morgan's talk on soap bubble clusters. My children, Emily (10) and Will (6), were especially enamored by the linkage between complex math questions and fun activities. After blowing bubbles, my son asked me afterwards, Is that what they do in math in college?'"

Andy Masetti '79 is Chief Financial Officer at Sentient Medical Systems, a leading provider of intra-operative monitoring services..

Joe Masters '94 received his math Ph.D. at Texas and has been teaching at SUNY-Buffalo. His wife, Laura Prentice ‘94 is doing a residency in pediatric neurology there and likes it, although they keep her busy.
 
Joe Masters '02 is studying law at Yale Law School.

Andrew Mauer-Oats '93 is teaching high school in Chicago - an inside view of a system that fails many many students... fewer than 6% of 8th grader graduate from college in 10 years. Living in Chicago means it takes a long time to drive anywhere, but there're plenty  of things to do with the kids, Olivia  and Elliot.

Robert McGehee '02 is working at Geode Capital, a quantitative investment firm in downtown Boston.
 
Alex Meadows '96 received his PhD in Mathematics from Stanford. After a postdoc at Cornell, he is teaching at St. Mary’s College in Maryland.

Heather Morton ‘94 is  assistant professor of English at Centre College in Kentucky.

Erich Muehlegger '97 got a PhD in Economics at MIT in 2005 and is at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Dawn Nelson '00 is in the Mathematics PhD program at Brandeis University.

Douglas Northrop '89 is director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Michigan.
 
Bill O'Brien ’94: After teaching high school in Switzerland, Japan, and Australia, has returned to New England.

Jon Othmer '02 is finishing a PhD in applied math at Caltech in June 2008. After finishing he will get married in Australia and move to New York to take a job with Morgan Stanley.

Jim Partan '94 is an electrical engineer at Wood's Hole.

Michael Pelsmajer '95 is teaching in the Math Department at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Andrew (Wiz) Perry '92 received tenure at Springfield College (Springfield, MA) and published an Abstract Algebra book.

Nick Perry '04 has been teaching at the Horace Mann School in NYC.

David Pesikoff '90 went to business school at Stanford. Now he works for a money manager in Texas when he's not busy with his children.

Shara Pilch '99 is teaching at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts, after finishing three years in Webb, MS.

John Platt '99 is teaching math at Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, RI.

Binney Putnam '97 is teaching at The Bishop's School in La Jolla, California.

Nate Putman '04 is pursuing a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

Virginia Pyle '00 moved to Minneapolis in fall 2003 to pursue a Masters in English as a Second Language at the University of Minnesota.

Conor Quinn '07 is with Teach for America in Chicago. He says "it's awesome, totally awesome. The joy that I derive from teaching mathematics is something that I could not have predicted."

Jennifer Quinn '85 served as chair of the math department at Occidental College and editor of Math Horizons, the MAA magazine for students before serving as executive director of the Association of Women in Mathematics and then moving to the University of Washington-Tacoma.

Andrew Raich '98  got his PhD in math at Wisconsin in 2005, had  a postdoc at Texas A&M, and he and his wife Shauna are teaching at the University of Arkansas (fall 2008).

Nikos Raleigh '96 attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education to pursue a Master in Education. Starting in 1997, he spent three years teaching at an innovative start-up public school in Boston. Then he made a career switch to management consulting at the Monitor Group. During his stint at Monitor, he took a yearlong leave of absence to teach and study in Seoul, Korea. Then did an MBA student at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  Now in a full-time position at American Express as a Senior Manager. His wife Liz is a PhD student at UPenn studying Sociology.

Nicholas Rawlings '65 had the good fortune of landing a summer job in 1961 at Perkin-Elmer Corp, working on early lasers. One of the scientists suggested that  investigate the brand new computer thing down the hall. "I worked every long weekend and break, learning more and more of computers, till I became the Manager of Systems Programming the day after I graduated. I was 20. By then, I'd rewritten a FORTRAN compiler, learned assembly language for several different computers, and begun the work of developing the world's first commercial time-sharing system. Williams knew essentially nothing of computers at the time. I did take a FORTRAN class my senior year as a joke, with the professor trying to read a chapter ahead of the class and my being a smart-Alec who could do the final in a few minutes the day the first class was held. I stuck with computers till my retirement recently. Now, I tutor kids in trig and AP calc."

Sara Richland '01 is teaching math to high school juniors and seniors at her alma mater, Harvard-Westlake, a wonderful private school.
 
Drew Richards '99 is working for Capital Resource Partners in Boston.
 
Kamille Richards '00 has left a market research consulting company in Waltham for Harvard Law School.

Dan Robb '93 got a PhD at UT Austin in Physics in magnetic modeling in 2002. His advisor Linda Reichl was also Bill Wootters' advisor when he has at UT Austin. He teaches at Berry College.

Chris Roosenraad '94  has returned from working in Germany and now works for Time Warner Cable in Virginia.

Steve Root '92  got his masters in math at Michigan and works in analytic software development.

Mark Rothlisberger '03  is pursuing a PhD at the University of Texas, Austin.

Curtis Schmitt '93: His first short film, "What Remains," finished its tour of the festival circuit (it won an award at the Las Vegas Mercury Short Film Festival!). His day job is for a small publisher in eastern Long Island, NY.

Eric Schoenfeld '03 is pursuing a Ph.D. in Mathematics at Stanford University.

Brett Schneider '94 is a structural engineer and teaches part-time at Columbia University.

Peter Schulman '70 teaches at the UConn Medical School in Cardiology.

Jenny Schumi '97 studied statistics amid the cornfields of central Iowa at Iowa State in Ames. After receiving an MS, she worked for a small company in Washington, DC, doing statistical consulting relating to clinical trials and other public health research. She is now in the doctoral program at the Harvard School of Public Health in Biostatistics.

Adam Schuyler '00 finished his PhD in mechanical engineering  and now works in the Feldman Lab at the university of Michigan.

Jason Schweinsberg '97 has  a tenure-track position in the math department at the University of California at San Diego.

Patricia (Patti) Scott '96 is teaching people how to fly airplanes, and is currently working at a flight school in the San Francisco Bay area.

Lisetta Shah '05 trained with the Mississippi Teacher Corps. She teaches 7th grade science at Greenwood Middle School, a critical-needs publish school district.

Garrett Smith '01 worked for 2.5 years for Bain & Company in Boston doing strategy consulting. From there he went on a 6 month transfer to Bain's Amsterdam office and loved it so much that he asked to stay. They said "yes" so now he is trying to fit into Dutch culture! Lots of bike riding, cheese eating, and a sturdy umbrella. Garrett was first recipient of the Kozelka prize in statistics for his colloquium with Prof Jerry Reiter.

Tristan Smith '98 received a PhD in Computer and Information Systems from the University of Oregon in 2004, and now works for On Time Systems out of Eugene, OR.

John Staudenmayer '92 is a professor at UMass-Amherst in the Math and Stats Department, after having finished his PhD at Cornell in Operations Research in 2000 and holding a post doc at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is married to Katie Queeney '92, who teaches chemistry at Smith.

Mark Sutton '93, since moving to New York in 2000, has won a Telly Award for composition for TV, and currently works as Executive Producer of "Marc Sussman's Money Message" for Air America/XM Satellite Radio.

Nathan Tefft '00, after working as a software engineer at Harvard, is pursuing a PhD in Economics (possibly environmental or public econ.) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Emily Thall '90 worked for a number of years in Portugal and Chile, first teaching and then working as a financial analyst. She returned to New York to work for a company that invested in railroads in South America. After many train trips through Bolivia and the like, she went to law school and now practices law in London.

Jennifer Tice '97 lives in Seattle, working at an environmental policy and management consulting firm called Ross & Associates. She enjoys hiking, snowshoeing, kayaking, and bicycling in the area, as well as volunteering for local non-profit organizations, seeing live theatre, and being near family.

Margaret Tilton '93, after teaching writing composition in Boulder, is studying geography at the University of Colorado.

Mike Touloumtzis writes: I'm still in Seattle, working at Amazon.com as a Principal Engineer; I'm currently working on the problem of automatically classifying productsbased on their titles and other attributes, combined with feedback loopsfrom customer behavior.  It's an interesting job and I'm really enjoyingit, although I frequently regret not taking Statistics at Williams--I'm still working to make up the loss!" Mike and his wife Irene are expecting a baby girl (their first) in June, 2008.

Donald Tufts '55  received three of his four academic degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.B. '57, S.M. '58, and Sc.D. '60, all in Electrical Engineering. Since 1967 he has been Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rhode Island.

Lisa Uebelacker '94 is a research psychologist at Brown.

Chris Umans '96: After receiving a PhD in computer science at Berkeley and doing a two-year postdoc at Microsoft, he is an assistant professor at Caltech in theoretical computer science.

Karen von Haam '89: Went to medical school at Ohio State University, then residency in Phoenix, Arizona. She ultimately ended up in Massachusetts on Cape Cod, where she has been working as a family physician since 1999.

Henry Walker '69 received a PhD in mathematics from MIT in 1979, and a masters in computer cience from the Univiersity of Iowa in 1979. He is a professor of computer science at Grinnell College. He has published eight books, including, most recently, the Tao of Computing.

Eric Watson '97: After a stint at Linfield College in Oregon, he is the head soccer coach at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he lives with his wife Paola Gentry '98 and his children Aracely and Oliver.

Brian Wecht '97, after a PhD in physics at UCSD and a postdoc in the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT, is a postdoc  in the High Energy Theoretical Physics group at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He got married on October 20, 2007.
 
Ted Welsh '95 finished his PhD in applied mathematics at Duke and is teaching at Westfield State, just down the road from Williams.

Craig Westerland '99: After receiving his Ph. D. in algebraic topology from the University of Michigan in 2004, Craig spent 2004-2005 at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is now a Van Vleck Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Krystal Williams '96 is working for the John Deere company in their overseas location in Mannheim, Germany.

Martin Williams '78 reports that he was enticed into math by his first calculus course with Professor Victor Hill, that he especially liked analysis, and that he did a senior project on affine geometry. After Williams he went to Harvard Medical School. He was named the Director of Surgery at Carney Hospital in Boston. He says that "the clear and critical thinking skills that I learned in the Math Dept. at Williams have been valuable and indispensable."

Alexandre Wolfe '99 finished his math PhD under Robert Lazarsfeld at the University of Michigan.

Alexander Woo '97 finished his math PhD at UC-Berkeley, and has a postdoc at UC-Davis.

Charles Worrall '94 is teaching at the Horace Mann School in New York City.

Matt Wyskiel '91 reports: "I recently left Mercantile Bank where I put my math skills to good use as a taxable fixed income analyst and portfolio manager for institutional clients. Colleagues at Mercantile viewed me as very good at math, so they had trouble believing that I [was] the dumbest/worst math student in many of my upper-level Williams math classes."

Cara Yoder '99 is now in Houston at St. John's School as college counselor/math teacher/swim coach. She is also tutoring, swimming on a master's team, and regional co-president of the Williams alum association.

Takeshi Yokoo '96 received his MD and PhD in applied math from Mount Sinai/NYU in 2005, and is currently a radiology resident at UCSD Medical Center. He is doing research in MRI physics, signal analysis, and image analysis, using my applied math background.

Robin Young '05 is pursuing a PhD in biostatistics at Boston University.

Leila Zelnick '00, after teaching math and statistics at her alma mater, Broken Arrow High School, is pursuing another masters (this time in statistics) at Oklahoma State University.

Jason Zimba '91, teaching physics at our neighbor Bennington College, reports that he and Rebecca just had daughter Abigail.