Charlie Anne Carlson (She/Her)
Email: CharlieAnneCarlson at UCSB.edu
My name is Charlie Anne Carlson (she/her). I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at SLMath in Berkeley, California. In 2023, I earned my Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder, where I was advised by Alexandra Kolla. Before that, I completed a Master of Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Earlier in my academic journey, I earned two Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. I also spent time working as a software engineer at Microsoft. I am a proud Indigenous woman who is transgender and queer.
Recent Updates:
January 2024: Postdoc at Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute for the Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures program.
September 2023: Started as postdoc working with Eric Vigoda at University of California, Santa Barbara.
September 2023: Attended European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) 2023 and presented joint work with Jafar jafarov, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makarychev and Liren Shan on Approximation Algorithms for Norm Multiway Cut [https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08373].
Finished PhD at University of Colorado, Boulder. [See thesis on Approximate Counting and Expansion].Â