{"id":1323,"date":"2022-06-10T17:48:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T17:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wxml.math.washington.edu\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2022-06-10T17:51:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T17:51:44","slug":"fran-herr-wins-the-deans-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wxml.math.washington.edu\/?p=1323","title":{"rendered":"Fran Herr wins the Dean&#8217;s Medal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Fran Herr for winning the UW College of Arts and Sciences Dean&#8217;s Medal.<br \/>\nFran took part in the WXML project Matching Graphs.<\/p>\n<p>The Matching Graphs project was led by faculty mentor Bennet Goeckner and graduate student mentor Rowan Rowlands. The undergraduate students involved were Fran and Legrand Jones II. This project resulted in two publications,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2205.01796\">Iterated matching graphs<\/a><br \/>\n and<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2110.11302\">A characterization of two-dimensional Buchsbaum matching complexes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fran is a double major in mathematics and dance and she loved exploring the connections between the two fields. After graduation she is moving to New York City to work at the National Museum of Mathematics. In the fall of 2023 she plans to begin a Ph.D. in Mathematics where she will study topology, geometry, and\/or combinatorics.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Fran!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1320\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwmxl\/\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/matching_group-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwmxl\/\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/matching_group-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwmxl\/\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/matching_group-375x281.jpg 375w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwmxl\/\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/matching_group-108x81.jpg 108w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwmxl\/\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/matching_group.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Matching Graphs WXML group<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Fran Herr for winning the UW College of Arts and Sciences Dean&#8217;s Medal. Fran took part in the WXML project Matching Graphs. The Matching Graphs project was led by faculty mentor Bennet Goeckner and graduate student mentor Rowan Rowlands. The undergraduate students involved were Fran and Legrand Jones II. This project resulted in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wxml.math.washington.edu\/?p=1323\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wxml.math.washington.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wxml.math.washington.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wxml.math.washington.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wxml.math.washington.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wxml.math.washington.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wxml.math.washington.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"http:\/\/www.wxml.math.washington.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wxml.math.washington.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wxml.math.washington.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wxml.math.washington.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}