Jillian E. McLeod

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Mount Holyoke College

South Hadley, MA 01075

(413) 538-2683

jmcleod@mtholyoke.edu

Education

Howard University, Washington, DC

PhD in Mathematics, July 2001.

Dissertation: "Notions of Size in Adequate Partial Semigroups"

Advisor: Dr. Neil Hindman

Howard University, Washington, DC

M.A. in Mathematics, May 1997.

Hunter College, City University of New York, NY

B. A. in Mathematics, August 1994.

Professional Experience

Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor

Mount Holyoke College, 2002- present

Visiting scholar 2003-2004

University of Hull, U.K. and Queen Mary University of London, U.K.

Seminar Director

SUMSRI, Miami University, Summer 2002

Visiting Assistant Professor

Hope College, 2000-2002

Lecturer

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Summer 2000

Lecturer

Montgomery College, 1997 – 2000

Instructor

Howard University, 1999 – 2000

Graduate Assistant

Howard University, 1995 - 1998

Research Publications

Central Sets in Adequate Partial Semigroups, submitted to Topology Proceedings (2004), preprint available

(With Carlson, Hindman, and Strauss) Almost Disjoint Families of Central Sets in N , preprint available

Central Sets in Adequate Partial Semigroup, preprint

(With I. Farah and N. Hindman) Partition theorems for layered partial semigroups,

Journal of Combinatorial Theory (JCTA), (Series A) 98 (2002), 268-311.

Some notions of size in partial semigroups, Topology Proceedings, Vol. 25 (2000), 317-332.

Professional Presentations

“Central Sets in Adequate Partial Semigroups”

AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 2003

“Large sets in Adequate Partial Semigroups”

AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 2002

“Notions of Size in Partial Semigroups”

Topology and Applications Conference, August 2001

“Notions of Size in Partial Semigroups, an overview”

AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 2001

“When is an IP set a d-IP set”

Topology and Applications Conference, August 2000

"Piecewise Syndeticity in a Partial Semigroup"

AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings, August 2000

"Some Notions of Size in a Partial Semigroup"

Topology and Applications Conference, August 1999

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

AWM Researcher Travel Grant, February 2004

AWM Mentoring Travel Grants for Women, Spring 2003

Project Next Fellow, 2001-2002

Dissertation Teaching Fellowship - Hope College, 2000 – 2001

Minority Teaching Fellow - University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Summer 2000

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation’s Mellon Minority University Fellows Travel and Research Grant, Summer 2000

Howard University Preparing Future Faculty fellow, 1998 – 2000

Howard University GAANN fellow, 1997 – 2000

SSRC-Mellon Minority Fellowship Predoctoral Research Grant, 1996 – 2001

Mellon Minority Fellow, 1993-2001

Service Activities

Faculty advisor for the Math & Stat Club, Mount Holyoke College, 2004-2005

Department Librarian, Mount Holyoke College, 2002-2003

Reviewed for the National Science Foundation (NSF), 2002, 2003

Served on the committee to recruit students of color at Hope College, Fall 2001

Faculty advisor for the Hope College Women’s Issues Organization, 2001-2002

Workshop facilitator at the 10^th Annual SSRC-Mellon Minority Graduate Student Summer Conference

Duke University, June 2001

Assistant Coordinator of Graduate Student Seminars, Howard University, Fall 1999

Student representative on the Graduate Committee, Howard University, 1999- 2000