Heather M. Russell - Usc - University of Southern California

• Springer varieties, knot invariants, and the symmetric group, colloquium talk, James Madison University
(February 2009).
• The coloring invariant for knots and links, colloquium talk, St. Mary’s College of Maryland (January
2009).
• A geometric and combinatorial construction of the Springer representation, AWM Workshop Poster
Session, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington D.C. (January 2009).
• Springer representations on the Khovanov Springer fibers, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington
D.C. (January 2009).
• Transverse knots and Khovanov homology, Iowa-LSU Virtual Seminar, University of Iowa (September
2008).
• Connections between the Bar-Natan skein module and the (n, n) Springer variety, Workshop on
Geometric Topology. Park City, Utah (June 2008).
• The Bar-Natan skein module of the solid torus and the homology of (n, n) Springer varieties, AMS
Spring Sectional Meeting, Louisiana State University (March 2008).
• The Bar-Natan skein module of the solid torus and the homology of (n, n) Springer varieties, Workshop
on Knots and Quantum Computing, University of Texas at Dallas (December 2007).
• The Bar-Natan skein module of the solid torus and the homology of (n, n) Springer varieties, Knots
in Washington, George Washington University (November 2007).
• Embedded Khovanov homology of S 1 × D 2 and the homology of the (n, n)-Springer Fiber, Iowa-
LSU Virtual Seminar, University of Iowa (November 2007).
• Knots and their Invariants, Heartland Partnership Talk, Grinnell College (November 2007).
• Knots and their Invariants, VIGRE REU, University of Iowa (July 2007).
• RSA and the Quadratic Sieve, Heartland Partnership Talk, Cornell College (October 2006).
Awards and Honors
• USC WISE Merit Award for Postdoctoral Research (2012).
• AMS-Simons travel grant recipient (Fall 2011-Spring 2013).
• AWM-NSF Travel Grant recipient (Summer 2010).
• Invited attendee, Interactions Between Hyperbolic Geometry, Quantum Topology and Number Theory,
Columbia University (Summer 2009).
• University of Iowa Graduate Summer Fellowship recipient (Summer 2009).
• Dr. Eunice Beam WISE Travel Grant recipient (Winter 2008)
• Invited attendee, Institute for Advanced Study Women in Math Program (Spring 2008)
• Fraternity and Sorority Outstanding Teaching Award (Fall 2006)
• University of Iowa Outstanding Teaching Award (Spring 2005)
• University of Iowa Department of Mathematics Outstanding Teaching Award (Spring 2004)
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