AIM Staff

Brian Conrey is the founding Executive Director of the American Institute of Mathematics. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan, has served on the faculties of University of Illinois and Oklahoma State University, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. He serves as an editor of the Journal of Number Theory and is also active in several outreach programs for high school students interested in mathematics.

Estelle Basor received her PhD from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She recently retired from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and has held visiting positions at UC Santa Cruz and Bryn Mawr College. Her research interests are in the areas of operator theory and random matrix theory.

David Farmer is a founding member of ARCC. He received his PhD from Oklahoma State University and his research interests are in L-functions and modular forms. He actively involves undergraduates in his research and is also working on developing Web-based tools for research mathematics.

Leslie Hogben is a professor of mathematics at Iowa State University. She received her Ph.D. in 1978 from Yale University. Originally working in nonassociative algebra, she shifted her research focus to linear algebra, especially combinatorial matrix theory. She particularly enjoys doing research with graduate and undergraduate students. Hogben is an associate editor of Linear Algebra and Its Applications, editor of Handbook of Linear Algebra, and the Secretary/Treasurer of the International Linear Algebra Society.

Wei Kang is responsible for developing collaborations between AIM and other organizations, both regional and international. He received his PhD from the University of California, Davis. His research interests lie in the field of control theory and its applications. He served as an associate editor of Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He is a Fellow of IEEE and has been a plenary speaker at two international conferences of SIAM and IFAC. He is also professor of applied mathematics at Naval Postgraduate School.

Ellen Heffelfinger supervises AIM's historical mathematics collection and its working library. She holds a B.A. from Yale and an M.S. from Columbia. She spent 15 years in the rare book business, specializing in science, before joining AIM. She is currently a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

Hannah Brodie has worked for AIM since 1999. She handles Human Resources issues including payroll, benefits, 403b plans, and new hires. She has a background in finance and administration and is currently working on her Grants Specialist certification.

Lori Mains oversees AIM's outreach programs for the Morgan Hill community and talented math students in grades 4-12. Lori has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Union College in Schnectady, NY. A former IBM employee, Lori has spent the past ten years working with school age children and math, through both school based programs and one-on-one tutoring. The current programs which she administers include the Math Mardi Gras (a one day community math event), Mathletics (4th-6th grade), MathCounts (6th-8th grade) and Mu Alpha Theta (9th-12th grade).

Shaquana Mitchell handles a range of administrative duties. She holds a B.A. from Louisiana State University and an M.F.A. from San Jose State University.

Brianna Donaldson received her PhD from Indiana University and has conducted research on mathematical models of perceptual decision-making. Her role at AIM includes managing the Math Teachers' Circle Program, a national network of professional development communities for middle school math teachers, and coordinating AIM's contributions to GEMSTONES (Graduate Education in the Mathematical Sciences to Nurture Every Student), a project to increase the recruitment and retention of U.S. women and underrepresented minorities at the graduate level.