Dr. Carla D. (Moravitz) Martin
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
112 Roop Hall, MSC 1911
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Phone: (540) 568-5100
Fax: (540) 568-6857
Email: [MyUserName]@math.jmu.edu
(my user name is: carlam)
2005 Ph.D. Cornell University, Applied Mathematics
Dissertation: Higher-Order Kronecker Products and Tensor Decompositions (Abstract [pdf])
Charles F. Van Loan, advisor2003 M.S. Cornell University, Applied Mathematics
1995 B.S. Virginia Tech, Mathematics, In Honors
2006-Present Assistant Professor, James Madison University
2005-2006 Escobar Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Dept. of Mathematics
2002-2005 Graduate Research Assistant, Cornell University, Dept. of Computer Science (summers)
1999-2005 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cornell University
1995-1999 Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Bethesda, MD
MATLAB codes for Jacobi-type method.
MATLAB codes for the Shifted Kronecker Product Problem.
MATLAB codes for the Product Triangular Systems with Shift problem.
"A Tensor SVD", Householder Symposium XVII, Zeuthen, Germany, June 5, 2008.
"Music and Math: Discovering Relationships", University Honors Program Brownbag Series, James Madison University, January 23, 2008.
Mathematical Projects for Science Fairs and Symposia (with P. Kohn and L. Taalman), Valley of Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics (V2CTM) Meeting, Pleasant Valley Elementary School, Harrisonburg, VA, November 7, 2007.
"What Linear Algebra, Mars Rovers and Brain Scans have in Common -- the Power of Approximation, Department of Mathematics Colloqium, Longwood University, Farmville, VA, October 4, 2007.
"Linear Recurrence Relations in Music", MathFest, San Jose, CA, August 5, 2007.
"Why Consulting Firms need Mathematicians", AMS-MAA-SIAM Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, January 8, 2007.
"Linear Algebra and Tensor Rank", AMS-MAA-SIAM Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA, January 6, 2007.
"The Rank of a 2x2x2 Tensor", MAA Fall DC-MD-VA Section Meeting, Longwood University, Farmville, VA, November 4, 2006.
"The Rank of a Tensor", Department of Mathematics Colloqium, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, October 3, 2006.
" Tensor Decompositions and Compression," AMS-MAA-SIAM Joint Mathematical Meetings, San Antonio, TX, January 15, 2006.
" Compressing Higher-Dimensional Arrays," Tufts University, Department of Mathematics Colloqium, Medford, MA. November 4, 2005.
" Compressing Higher-Dimensional Arrays," Householder Symposium, Seven Springs, PA. May 23-27, 2005.
"Higher-Dimensional Tensor Decompositions," Department of Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. April 19, 2005.
"A Jacobi-type method for Computing Tensor Decompositions," SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering, Orlando, FL, February 12-15, 2005.
" An Overview of Multilinear Algebra and Tensor Decompositions", ARCC Tensor Decomposition Workshop, American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA, July 19-23, 2004.
" Shifted Kronecker Product Systems," 2002 Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FOCM) Conference, Numerical Linear Algebra workshop, IMA, Minneapolis, MN, August 8-10, 2002.
"Product Triangular Systems with Shift," Mathematical Sciences Graduate Student Seminar, Cornell University, October 17, 2001.
Career profile listed on MAA Online Career Profiles (May 2007).
Interviewed for CNN article Working Your Degree. Applied Math becomes more popular among students.
Career profile featured for the AMS-MAA-SIAM Project for Nonacademic Employment sponsored by the American Mathemtical Society.
Career profile listed on MAA Online Career Profiles (March 1998).
Profiled in 101 Careers in Mathematics, 2nd Ed., by Andrew Sterrett.
Video appears under Profiles of Mathematicians sponsored by the Sloan Career Cornerstone Center.
NSF Travel Grant, for expenses to attend and speak at the 2008 Householder Symposium XVII, Zeuthen, Germany, June 1-6, 2008.
MAA DC-MD-VA Section NExT Fellow, 2006-2008
National Project NExT Fellow, 2006-2007
AWM Workshop Accepted Participant and Travel Grant for expenses to attend and speak at the 2006 AMS-MAA-SIAM Joint Meetings, San Antonio, TX, January 12-15, 2006.
NSF Travel Grant for expenses to attend and speak at the 2005 Householder Symposium, Seven Springs, PA, May 23-27, 2005.
Cornell Department of Computer Science TA Award for work during Spring 2005 in CS322 (Scientific Computing)
Nominated for the Cornell Clark and Russel Distinguished Teaching Award for the College of Arts & Sciences, 2003
Nominated for the Cornell Department of Mathematics Teaching Award, 2002,2005
NSF VIGRE Semester Fellowship, Spring 2002, materials development for Dynamical Models in Biology first-time course. A description of my work.
Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship
NSF Travel Grant, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) for travel expenses to FOCM 2002, Minneapolis, MN, August 8-10, 2002.
Cornell Department of Music Scholarship for Private Violin Study, 2002 - 2004.
Virginia Tech University Woman of the Year, 1995
Virginia Tech Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Mathematics (ICAM) Outstanding Senior Award, 1995
Virginia Tech Outstanding Undergraduate Student Leader Award, 1995
Phi Beta Kappa, Inducted 1994