Home Me CV Publications Corina E. Tarniţă Curriculum Vitae Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University One Brattle Square, Suite 6, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617) 496-5564, Email: corina(AT)math.harvard.edu URL: http://math.harvard.edu/~corina/ Education [PhD] Harvard University, Mathematics, june 2009; HighBridge prize awarded by the Department of Mathematics for the best PhD thesis: Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations. Advisors: Martin A. Nowak and Tibor Antal. [M.A.] Harvard University, M.A. in Mathematics, june 2008. Thesis: The Minimal Model Program. Advisors: Izzet Coskun and Joe Harris. [B.A.] Harvard University, B.A., june 2006, awarded Magna cum Laudae (High Honors) with Highest Honors in Mathematics. Senior Thesis: The Debarre-de Jong Conjecture for Fano Varieties of Lines on Hypersurfaces. Advisor: Joe Harris. [High school] C.N. Carol I, Craiova, Romania. School merit scholarship for outstanding academic achievement, 1998--2002. Valedictorian. Awards [2010] Student of the Year in North America awarded by LSRS (Liga Studentilor Romani din Strainatate). [2009] HighBridge prize awarded by the Harvard Department of Mathematics for the best PhD thesis (shared with Chen-Yu Chi). [2006] Highest Honors in Mathematics awarded by the Harvard Department of Mathematics; [2006] Magna cum Laudae (High Honors) awarded by Harvard University; [2006] 2nd prize of the Friends of Mathematics; [2005] Harvard Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement; [2005] Best Student Paper Award for the paper "On Dynamic Bit-Probe Complexity" at the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP'05); [2004] Robert Fletcher Rogers 1st Prize, awarded by the Harvard Mathematics Department for the talk ``Computing Order Statistics in the Farey Sequence''; [2000] 1st place individual, 1st place teams, International Mathematical Contest ``Gheorghe Titeica''; [2001, 2000, 1999] 1st prize, Romanian National Mathematical Olympiad; [2001, 2000, 1999] Award for Excellence of the Romanian Mathematical Society (SSMR); [1996--2002] 1st, 2nd or 3rd prize in national and regional Romanian competitions (Mathematics, Physics, English) [2002] Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English, grade A; Cambridge University, UK; Student Advising Joseph Armao -- Harvard Math senior thesis, 2009: "Evolutionary Game Dynamics, Cooperation and Costly Punishment" (co-advised with David Rand and Martin Nowak) Charles Nathanson -- Harvard Math senior thesis, 2009: "Evolutionary dynamics in set structured populations" (co-advised with Martin Nowak) -- First Prize of the Friends of Mathematics. Neal Wadhwa -- Harvard Math senior thesis, 2009: "Update rules in graph structured populations" (co-advised with Martin Nowak) Nils Wernerfelt -- Harvard Math senior thesis, 2009: "The Evolution of Cooperation on Dynamic Graphs" (co-advised with David Rand and Martin Nowak) -- Hoopes Prize. Teaching Experience [Spring'09] Teaching Assistant for Math 243 (Evolutionary Dynamics); Prof. Martin Nowak. [Fall'08] Teaching Assistant for Math 153 (Mathematical Biology: Evolutionary Dynamics); Prof. Martin Nowak. Q Guide Evaluation: 4.2/5. [Fall'07] Instructor for Math 21a (Multivariable Calculus); 29 students. Q Guide Evaluation: 4.3/5. [Fall'05] Teaching Assistant for Math 212a (Functions of a Real Variable); Prof. Shlomo Sternberg. Q Guide Evaluation: 4/5. [Spring'05] Teaching Assistant for Math 123 (Theory of Rings and Fields); Prof. Benedict Gross. Q Guide Evaluation: 4.3/5. [Fall'04] Teaching Assistant for Math 122 (Theory of Groups and Vector Spaces); Prof. Benedict Gross. Q Guide Evaluation: 4.4/5. ['03-'04] Teaching Assistant for Math 23a,b (Theoretical Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus); Prof. John Boller. Q Guide Evaluation: 4.5/5. Presentations [2010] ``Evolution of Eusociality'', presented at Biocomplexity XI, ``The Evolution of Cooperation: Paradoxes of Collectivity & Individuality'', Bloomington, Indiana. [2010] ``Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations'', presented at the Economics Lunch Seminar, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden. [2010] ``Limitations of Inclusive Fitness'', presented at the Academy Colloquium ``Evolution of Cooperation'', Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [2010] ``Evolution and Structure'', presented in the Department of Mathematics of the Alexandu Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania. [2010] ``The Financial Market as a Biological System'', presented as part of the FCAT Seminar Series at Fidelity Investments. [2010] ``Evolution and Structure'', presented as part of the 2009-2010 Templeton Lectures at Johns Hopkins University. [2009] ``Evolutionary Dynamics in Set Structured Populations'', presented as part of the Class of 27 lectures at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. [2009] ``Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations'', presented at the Basic Notions Seminar in the Harvard Department of Mathematics. [2009] ``Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations'', presented at the Simple Person's Applied Math seminar at MIT. [2008] ``Evolutionary Dynamics in Set Structured Populations'', presented at the Harvard Cooperation Group at the Berkman Center. [2008] ``Evolutionary Dynamics in Set Structured Populations'', presented at the Fields Institue of Mathematics, Toronto, Canada; [2007] ``The Minimal Model Program - on work by Hacon and McKernan'', presented at MMPS (Harvard-MIT Minimal Model Program Seminar); [2007] ``The Debarre-de Jong Conjecture for Fano Varieties of Lines on Hypersurfaces'', presented at BAGS (Harvard-MIT Baby Algebraic Geometry Seminar); [2004] ``Computing Order Statistics in the Farey Sequence'', presented at ANTS VI (Analytic Number Theory Symposium), Burlington, VT; [2004] ``Finding a Divisible Pair'', poster at ANTS VI (Analytic Number Theory Symposium), Burlington, VT. [2004] ``Finding a Divisible Pair and a Good Wooden Fence'', presented at FUN with Algorithms, Elba Island, Italy; [2004] ``Computing Order Statistics in the Farey Sequence'', presented at the Harvard Undergraduate Mathematics Colloquium, Cambridge, MA.