Jane Ivy Coons
June 21, 2018
Jane Ivy Coons is a fourth year PhD student at North Carolina State University studying applications of algebra and combinatorics under the advisement of Seth Sullivant. She is visiting the MPI MiS as a visiting PhD student for the months of June and July.
She is particularly interested in applications of algebraic and polyhedral geometry to graphical models in phylogenetics. She is also working on problems related to the Ehrhart theory of order polytopes of certain posets.
During her time at the MPI MiS, she attended the Macaulay2 workshop, where she contributed to a forthcoming package for computing moment and cumulant ideals.
In 2015, Jane received her bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Vocal Performance from the State University of New York at Geneseo.
