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Ellen Gethner
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<h2 id="career">Career</h2> <p>Gethner has two doctorates. She completed her first, a PhD in mathematics from <a href="/facts/Ohio_State_University/jfSr6u6u">Ohio State University</a>, in 1992; her dissertation, <i>Rational Period Functions For The Modular Group And Related Discrete Groups</i>, was supervised by L. Alayne Parson. She completed a second PhD in computer science from the <a href="/facts/University_of_British_Columbia/8QCl5YGd">University of British Columbia</a> in 2002, with a dissertation <i>Computational Aspects of Escher Tilings</i> supervised by <a href="/facts/Nick_Pippenger/ktGhSScN">Nick Pippenger</a> and <a href="/facts/David_G._Kirkpatrick/2qE9tdxA">David G. Kirkpatrick</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Gethner is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at <a href="/facts/University_of_Colorado_Denver/Hn6LERus">University of Colorado Denver</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="research">Research</h2> <p>Gethner became interested in connections between geometry and art after a high school lesson using a kaleidoscope to turn a drawing into an <a href="/facts/M._C._Escher/6uuAGlDx">Escher</a>-like <a href="/facts/Tessellation/7BWDywXC">tessellation</a> of the plane. This later inspired some of her research on <a href="/facts/Wallpaper_pattern/egxEaC8q">wallpaper patterns</a> and on converting music into visual patterns.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ojfeujgAAAAJ">Ellen Gethner</a> publications indexed by <a href="/facts/Google_Scholar/FhEwS2QM">Google Scholar</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Chauvenet Prizes | Mathematical Association of America". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 2019-04-07. <a href="https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/chauvenet-prizes" target="_blank">https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/chauvenet-prizes</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Gethner, Ellen; Wagon, Stan; Wick, Brian (1998). "A Stroll Through the Gaussian Primes". American Mathematical Monthly. 105 (4): 327–337. doi:10.2307/2589708. ISSN 0002-9890. JSTOR 2589708. <a href="/wiki/American_Mathematical_Monthly" target="_blank">/wiki/American_Mathematical_Monthly</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Ellen Gethner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project <a href="https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=10613" target="_blank">https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=10613</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"UC Denver faculty and staff directory". <a href="https://engineering.ucdenver.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory" target="_blank">https://engineering.ucdenver.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Making art from math". Impact. Vol. 3, no. 1. University of Colorado Denver College of Engineering and Applied Science. 2014. pp. 6–8. <a href="https://issuu.com/ucdengineering/docs/impactmagazine2014" target="_blank">https://issuu.com/ucdengineering/docs/impactmagazine2014</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>