| Department: | |
| Title: | Professor - Mathematics |
| Office: | LA-022m |
| Email: | kathy.andrist@uvu.edu |
| Phone: | (801) 863-6309 |
| Fax: | (801)863-6254 |
| Mail Code: | 261 |
Education
· Ph.D. Mathematics, August 2000, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
Dissertation: A Three-Manifold With Non-Trivial Fundamental Group Which Does Not Admit Non-trivial Group Actions.
Advisor: Dr. David G. Wright.
· M.S. Mathematics, August 1995, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
Project: Freudenthal Compactification.
· B.S. Mathematics, August 1993, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
Teaching Experience
· Professor. Utah Valley University. July 2012-Present. · Associate Professor. Utah Valley University. July 2006 -2012. · Assistant Professor. Utah Valley University. January 2001 - July 2006 · Assistant Professor. Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. August 2000 - January 2001. · Graduate Student Instructor. Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. 1993 - August 2000.
Research Interests
· Geometric Topology
· Knot Theory
· Origami
Publications
· K. Andrist and David G. Wright, The Whitehead Manifold Has No Orientation Reversing Homeomorphism, Topology Proceedings, Vol 31, No. 1 (2007), 1-5.
· K. Andrist, David G. Wright, On Computing The Geometric Index, Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Workshop in Geometric Topology, (2000), 35--38.
Presentations
· Poster Presentation, AAC&U Conference, Seattle, WA, February 2010. General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities, Dynamic Adaptation to Change: The Utah Valley University Engagement Model.
· UVU Mathematics Department Colloquia:
The Conway Notation for Rational Tangles, November 13 & 20, 2009.
The Freudenthal Compactification, 2007.
Knot Polynomials and A Proof That The Whitehead Manifold Does Not Admit an Orientation Reversing Homeomorphism, November, 2004.
A Certain Class of 3-Manifolds Which Cannot Be Covering Spaces, January, 2001.
· AMS/MAA Intermountain Section Meetings: The Truth, Nothing But the Truth, but Not the Whole Truth, Provo, UT 2009.
· UVU Math Club: Why Knot? February, 2003.
· Spring Topological and Dynamical Systems Conference: A Three-Manifold With Non-Trivial Fundamental Group Which Does Not Admit Non-Trivial Group Actions, Morelia, Mexico, March 2001.
Research Project
· K. Andrist, D. Halverson (BYU), J. Purcell(BYU) and V. Vasilevska(UVU),
Origami and Compliant Mechanisms (work in progress).