Former MIT postdoc Maggie Miller had just one day to spend at JMM 2024 in San Francisco.
A first-year assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) and a Clay Research Fellow, Miller had another math conference to go to that week. But having attended JMM for more than a decade meant she knew her way around.
On the opening morning of JMM, Miller would present her research. That afternoon, as people flooded the awards ceremony elsewhere, Miller perched on a chair in the front row at “Searching for Triple Grid Diagrams” by Devashi Gulati
“It’s sort of about two areas of math, one of which I know a lot about and one of which I know less about, so I like that it might make the second more accessible to me,” she said.