Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile.
Title: Graphs with Women
Abstract: The main purpose of this talk is to expose part of my academic life as a graph theorist through the work made in collaboration with great female colleagues.
I plan to tell you who these women are, in which problems we have been working on, and roughly, what we have done together.
Short bio: Andrea completed her bachelor’s degree in mathematics at the University of Valparaíso (UV) in Chile in 2008, after which she studied a Ph.D. in mathematical modeling at the University of Chile, while carrying out several research internships at Charles University, in the Czech Republic. From 2012 she held a postdoctoral position at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil and during 2014 she was a visiting researcher at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, US. Currently, Andrea is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Engineering at the University of Valparaíso, her alma mater. Andrea coordinates the outreach activities of her academic unit, as well as she coordinates the discrete mathematics research line within the doctoral program in mathematics in consortium (UV-UTFSM-PUCV). Since 2023, Andrea has been part of the board of directors of the Chilean Mathematics Society (SOMACHI).
In her research, Andrea has a strong inclination towards structural graph theory. She has results on graph decompositions, graph colorings, immersions, and many other topics. Currently, Andrea teaches courses on combinatorics, algorithms, and advanced topics in discrete mathematics for undergraduate and graduate students. Together with his colleague, Daniel Quiroz, they supervise two doctoral students.
Andrea is a proud mother of two boys, one 4 years old and the other 9 years old. In her free time she practices Bikram yoga, listens to music, and reads about feminism.
