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Dr. Tracey McGrail
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Bio
Professor McGrail was born and raised in Maine. She was a double major in Mathematics and English at Saint Joseph鈥檚 College, in Standish, Maine. She learned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut. In her personal life, Professor McGrail enjoys gardening, house renovations, and spending time with her husband and son.
Education
BA, Saint Joseph鈥檚 College, Standish, Maine
PhD, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Research Interests/Areas of Focus
Professor McGrail's Ph.D. research was in a branch of mathematical logic called Model Theory. In particular, she studied the theory of differential fields with finitely many commuting derivations. She is currently interested in developing materials for Discrete Mathematics.
Selected Publications
McGrail, T. and R. McGrail. Sorting the Sortable from the Unsortable. Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, May 2006
McGrail, R. and T. McGrail. A Grading Dilemma or the Abyss between Sorting it and the Knapsack Problem. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Northeastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges, April 2004
Doty, L., P. Krog, T. McGrail. Probability and Chip Firing Games. DIMACS Educational Module 04-1, 2004
Selected Presentations
鈥淧utting the Logs to the Fire,鈥� AMS Joint Meetings, San Diego, California, January 2018
鈥�Big O Captain, My Captain,鈥� AMS Joint Meetings, Seattle, Washington, January 2016.
鈥淭he Challenges of Designing a Mathematics Course for Liberal Arts in a Former Soviet Republic,鈥� Mathfest 2013, Hartford, Connecticut, August 2013.
