Moon Duchin, Ph.D. (Mathematics, University of Chicago, 2005; M.S., Mathematics, U. Chicago, 1999; B.A., Mathematics & Women’s Studies, Harvard University, 1998), is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and serves as founding director of the interdisciplinary Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Tufts University. Her mathematical research is in low-dimensional topology, geometric group theory, and dynamics. She leads a research team called the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG) that studies novel applications of geometry and topology to redistricting problems. Previously she was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.
Duchin is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and holds a CMoon Duchin, Ph.D. (Mathematics, University of Chicago, 2005; M.S., Mathematics, U. Chicago, 1999; B.A., Mathematics & Women’s Studies, Harvard University, 1998), is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and serves as founding director of the interdisciplinary Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Tufts University. Her mathematical research is in low-dimensional topology, geometric group theory, and dynamics. She leads a research team called the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG) that studies novel applications of geometry and topology to redistricting problems. Previously she was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.
Duchin is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and holds a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to study geometry at the intermediate scale between metric spaces and their asymptotic limits, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. She has lectured widely in pure mathematics and has spoken on the geometry of redistricting to audiences from high schools to a rabbinical school to the Distinguished Lecture Series of the Mathematical Association of America....more