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Victoria S Akin

Associate Professor of the Practice of Mathematics
Mathematics

Selected Publications


Self-reported Student Motivations to Participate in DEI Service Work

Conference http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/RUME26_Proceedings2024-letter.pdf · February 22, 2024 The proposed poster describes information collected from a case study of a DEI initiative in the math department at Kappa University (KU). A Networked Improvement Community (NIC) of faculty members and administrators began meeting monthly to discuss DEI in ... Cite

Modeling Active Learning in Professional Development for Teaching

Journal Article The journal of faculty development · September 1, 2023 Cite

Interpreting Student Evaluations of Teaching

Conference · 2019 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

An algebraic characterization of the point-pushing subgroup

Journal Article · June 10, 2017 The point-pushing subgroup P(S_g) of the mapping class group MCG_{g,*} of a surface with marked point is an embedding of \pi_1(S_g) given by pushing the marked point around loops. We prove that for g>= 3, the subgroup P(S_g) is the unique normal, genus g s ... Link to item Cite

How sticky should a virus be? The impact of virus binding and release on transmission fitness using influenza as an example.

Journal Article Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · March 2014 Budding viruses face a trade-off: virions need to efficiently attach to and enter uninfected cells while newly generated virions need to efficiently detach from infected cells. The right balance between attachment and detachment-the right amount of stickin ... Full text Cite

TP_k completions of partial matrices with one unspecified entry

Journal Article The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra · January 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Duke Mathematics Professional Development Program for Mathematics Graduate Students

Internet Publication The purpose of this document is to share materials, in an organized way, from the graduate student professional development (PD) program in the Mathematics Department at Duke University. Our goal is to show how different program components come together to ... Open Access Link to item Cite