Spectra's Council supervises all of its operations, directs its day-to-day activities, and implements its policies. It consists of its Officers, a President-elect (if applicable), the Chairs of Spectra's five Standing Committees, and two at-large Councilors.

If you have an questions about Spectra, ideas for events or programs, or co-sponsorship opportunities, feel free to email the board.

Mike Hill is the Ordway Professor at the University of Minnesota in the topology group, specializing in algebraic topology. He did his graduate work at MIT before moving to UVA, where he was first a postdoc and then a faculty member. He then worked at UCLA before joining the faculty at Minnesota in 2024.

David Crombecque is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from USC and previously, a Master’s in Mathematics from the Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France. His research interests are in Contact Geometry and Knot Theory. His focus on the pedagogy of Mathematics concerns Inquiry Based Learning for undergraduate students as well as professional development for middle school and high school Mathematics teachers.

Since 2009, David has been a board member of the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP) where he also represents the Mathematics Caucus and organizes the evaluation committee for the annual Out To Innovate undergraduate and graduate scholarships.

Apoorva Mate is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University – Brandywine. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Mississippi and a B.S. in Mathematics from Mississippi State University. Her research spans Banach lattices, operator theory, and mathematics education. Her current work explores cross-racial dynamics in mathematics classrooms, with a focus on fostering equity and inclusion.

Stephan Patterson is an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University Shreveport. He is an applied mathematician who will use any potentially helpful area of mathematics, which thus far has included tools from optimization, data science, statistics, computer science, graph theory, and numerical analysis. They completed a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado Denver in 2020; more recently, they have co-authored two OER textbooks. When not at school, he can be found playing with his young son, experimenting in the kitchen, or with his head in a book.

Alexander Hoover (he/him) is an assistant professor of applied mathematics at Cleveland State University. Research wise, he is a mathematical biologist and fluid dynamicist, with a speciality in leveraging computational fluid dynamics frameworks to answer questions pertaining to biomechanics and fluid transport. He is an active member in the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the American Physical Society (APS), and the Society of Mathematical Biology (SMB) professional societies, having organized minisymposia and conferences geared toward queer applied mathematicians, including the organizing of the Queer in Computational and Applied Mathematics (QCAM) workshops. In his free time, he loves to garden at home, tend to the neighborhood cats, and can be found at the beach when it's not frigid in Cleveland

Hi, I'm Alex Wiedemann, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Randolph-Macon College. My main areas of interest are operator theory, mathematical physics, and (spectral) graph theory. I am especially interested in interdisciplinary questions which use tools from these fields in unexpected ways. More broadly, I seek to understand the interplay between continuous and discrete structures. I am also interested in the roles of diversity and inclusivity mathematics, and in the development of teaching practices which better serve students from historically underrepresented groups.

AJ Fong is a second-year PhD student in Pure Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, where he works on algebraic geometry and number theory with David McKinnon. He likes to dance and play contract bridge in his spare time.

Matthew Cordes is an Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University specializing in geometric group theory. He received his PhD in Mathematics from Brandeis University and had postdocs at the Technion and ETH Zurich. He is also interested in understanding the ethics of mathematics and has developed a curriculum and taught a course on the ethics of mathematics at ETH..

Ian Coley is a mathematician-turned-consultant working for the Boston Consulting Group in their San Diego office. He received his PhD from UCLA in 2019, concentrating in higher category theory and algebraic K-theory, then moved on to a postdoc at Rutgers University from 2019 - 2022. These days he does very little pure mathematics, but applies abstract reasoning skills to business contexts and helps PhDs across disciplines find their path forward when academia no longer fits.

Spectra's Board is its governing body. Its five members are the President (ex officio) and four appointed members who serve staggered four-year terms. The current Board is:

• Mike Hill (President, ex officio)
• Ron Buckmire (term ending in 2026)
• Emily Riehl (term ending in 2027)
• Julie Blackwood (term ending in 2028)
• Dev Dabke (term ending in 2029)

• Joseph Nakao - Membership Chair (2022-2024)
• Moon Duchin - Board Member (2015 - 2022)
• Concha Gomez - Board Member (2015 - 2022)
• Douglas Lind - Board Member (2015 - 2022)
• Emily Riehl - Board Member (2015 - 2019, 2023)
• Lily Khadjavi - Board Member (2015 - 2022)
• Ron Buckmire - Board Member (2015 - 2023)
• Chris Goff - Board Member (2015 - 2023)