Faculty & Staff
Peters, Emily
Title/s: Associate Professor
MATH 161 Coordinator
Office #: BVM 616
Phone: 773.508.8955
Email: epeters3@luc.edu
External Webpage: http://webpages.math.luc.edu/~epeters3/
About
Dr. Emily Peters earned a Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 2009 from the University of California at Berkeley where she worked with the distinguished mathematician and Fields Medal laureate Vaughan Jones.
Her mathematical hobby is teaching geometric topics (polyhedra and polytopes, decomposition problems, Archimedian geometry, etc.) in math circles and summer programs. Before coming to Loyola, she worked at the University of New Hampshire, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and most recently was a Boas Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University.
Research Interests
Subfactors, planar algebras, and knot theory
