talia blum

taliab@stanford.edu
Sloan Hall, 381L

I am a fourth year math graduate student at Stanford. My advisor is Daniel Bump. I am supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
I am also a visual artist.

papers

1. On Class Numbers, Torsion Subgroups, and Quadratic Twists of Elliptic Curves (with C. Choi, A. Hoey, J. Iskander, K. Lakein, T.C. Martinez), Transactions of the AMS. 2022. arXiv.
2. Dynamical moduli spaces and polynomial endomorphisms of configurations (with J.R. Doyle, T. Hyde, C. Kelln, H. Talbott, M. Weinreich), Arnold Math. Journal. 2022. arXiv.

upcoming + recent conferences

• Conference on Solvable Lattice Models, Number Theory, and Combinatorics. Dublin, Ireland. June 2024. I presented a poster on Solvable bi-colored bosonic lattice models.
• AMS Spring Western Sectional Meeting. San Francisco, CA. May 2024. I gave a talk on Solvable bi-colored bosonic lattice models.
• Women+ and Mathematics workshop on Symmetry and Arithmetic at IAS. Princeton, NJ. May 2024.

outreach

I am co-organizing the Stanford math directed reading program.
I am on the board of the Stanford Women in Math Mentoring program.

teaching

• Summer 2024: Mentor for Stanford Undergraduate Research Institute in Mathematics (SURIM) to an underegraduate research project on solvable lattice models
• Winter 2024: Course Assistant for Math 20 (calculus)
• Fall 2023: Teaching Assistant for Math 21 (calculus)
• Summer 2023: Instructor for Linear Algebra at the Stanford Summer Engineering Academy. The course was on linear algebra with a focus on inquiry-based learning, group work, and mathematical reading.
• Spring 2023: Teaching Assistant for Math 21 (calculus)
• Winter 2023: I was the course assistant for Math 144 (topology)

art

My mathematical art has been exhibited at the the 2020, 2021, and 2023 JMM Mathematical Art Exhibitions. It also resides in the MIT 18.900 lecture notes, which I was comissioned to illustrate.

My non-mathematical work has been displayed at the Heckscher Museum, the MIT Compton Gallery, Boston HUBWeek, and the MIT Trashion Show, and I currently have three murals on display in the MIT tunnels. I also helped design the MIT 2021 brass rat.

My portfolio is here.

about me

In February 2021, I graduated from MIT with a B.S. in mathematics and minor in computer science.
When I'm not doing math, you can find me knitting, painting, rock climbing, swing dancing, making pickles, hiking, and/or listening to music.