Author Archives: Hannah Barta

About Hannah Barta

I'm a second-year Ph.D. student at Oregon State University studying the analysis of PDE. When I'm not doing math, I love thinking about more effective ways of teaching, having thoughtful and silly conversations with my friends, and cuddling with my cat Martha.

A tribute to Katherine

Posted on March 7, 2020 by Hannah Barta

I have never watched Hidden Figures. Was that a bad way to start off an article concerning the late Katherine Johnson, the NASA legend whose persistence, precision, and proclivity for mathematics sent America to space in the 1960s? Maybe it was. … Continue reading →

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Dear first year, this isn’t something you can plan for (Part 3)

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Hannah Barta

In case you want to catch up: here are Parts 1 & 2 of my first-year journey. We like to think that our life stories have happy endings, perhaps that we can carefully partition our lives into fourths of each … Continue reading →

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Dear first year, this isn’t something you can plan for (Part 2)

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Hannah Barta

For Part 1 of “Dear first year, this isn’t something you can plan for,” click here. We like to think that our life stories have happy endings, perhaps that we can carefully partition our lives into fourths of each year, … Continue reading →

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Dear first year, this isn’t something you can plan for (Part 1)

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Hannah Barta

I still remember how hopeful I was when I started. I had come off a high-performance undergraduate career, with a rockin’ CV full of contributed talks (including one at Joint Mathematics Meetings and the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in … Continue reading →

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