Angela Vichitbandha
About
I mostly grew up in Lexington, KY and completed my B.S. at the University of Kentucky in May 2020, primarily studying pure mathematics (major) and computer science (minor).
There, I was involved in the undergrad math lab and have projects linked below.
In addition, I participated in James Madison University's math REU in 2019, additional info also linked below.
I recieved a M.S. in Mathematics at NC State University in Aug 2022.
In 2022 to 2024, I worked at Applied Research Associates on software development and computer vision research.
I resumed my studies in Fall 2024 at the Universty of Nebraska-Lincoln and am persuing a PhD in math education.
A current email address is in the math department directory.
Teaching
I have been a teaching assistant for a variety of classes (primarily college algebra through multivariable calculus) at all three universities I've attended.
Additionally, I was instructor of record for MATH 203 Contemporary Math during fall 2025.
Research
During summer 2019, my REU group studied abelian sandpiles/critical groups on strongly regular graphs.
Further information can be found
here.
Our work contributed to a paper which can be accessed
here on ArXiv.
I was part of two research projects in the University of Kentucky Undergraduate Math Lab.
From summer to fall 2018, I worked on
computations in tropical geometry where we studied "well-poised" hypersurfaces.
This is a very nice class of hypersurfaces (originally defined by Ilten and Manon in 2017 for ideals more generally) and I was primarily involved with establishing an equivalent definition based on the polynomials' support and characterizing their tropical varieties.
Our resulting publication is accessible
here on ArXiv.
From spring 2019 to spring 2020, I was part of a group that conducted
experiements with geometry and algebra in the Heisenberg group.
We investigated the asymptotic growth of geometric objects generated by the discrete Heisenberg group's operation, which is non-commutative.
Ehrhart Theory addresses such behavior when the operation is commutative so we tried to find analogs for those well-established methods, in addition to applying computational methods to get a better idea of these curious objects.
Mathematical Quilts
Additional photos of quilts (and info on research projects) can be found at
https://ukmathlab.blogspot.com/.
In addition, if you're interested in creating math quilts with a group too, there is a
tutorial on the website.