{"id":22,"date":"2020-09-24T03:50:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T03:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vrmt\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2021-07-12T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T18:30:48","slug":"meet-the-faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vrmt\/meet-the-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VRMT is organized by several students and faculty from Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n<p>Lori Rafter &#8211; Principal Senior Lecturer<\/p>\n<p>Lori Rafter\u00a0has been\u00a0a lecturer in the math department at Vanderbilt since 2004, and she often teaches courses in Calculus and Statistics. She is excited to meet students who are passionate about math and encourage them to study mathematics in college and beyond!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3390\/2020\/09\/Rolen_Larry_Compresesd-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Rolen_Larry_Compresesd\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3390\/2020\/09\/Rolen_Larry_Compresesd-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3390\/2020\/09\/Rolen_Larry_Compresesd-768x1150.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3390\/2020\/09\/Rolen_Larry_Compresesd-684x1024.jpeg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Larry Rolen &#8211; Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p>Larry Rolen is an assistant professor in the Department of Math at Vanderbilt. He works in a field called number theory, which studies patterns in the arithmetic of whole numbers. For example, famous problems in number theory ask about how common prime numbers are, and whether even whole numbers bigger than two are always a sum of two primes. Dr. Rolen works with special functions called modular forms, which are functions with infinitely many symmetries, and especially has studied their applications to sequences of numbers which count things, to geometry, and to physics (such as black holes).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3390\/2020\/09\/IMG_0130-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0130\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3390\/2020\/09\/IMG_0130-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3390\/2020\/09\/IMG_0130-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3390\/2020\/09\/IMG_0130-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3390\/2020\/09\/IMG_0130.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>Madelynn Roche (she\/her\/hers) &#8211; Student Organizer<\/p>\n<p>Madelynn is a senior at Vanderbilt double majoring in Math and Education Studies. She is passionate about\u00a0helping\u00a0women, LGBTQ+ folks, and students of color to see themselves as &#8220;math people&#8221;. She is a co-founder of the VU Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Math and the Vice President of Pi Mu Epsilon, the math honor society at Vanderbilt. Outside of math,\u00a0she\u00a0loves being a part of the Wesley Fellowship, Interfaith Council, and being a Resident Adviser.\u00a0She is excited to help bring VRMT to campus and can&#8217;t wait to meet students at the competition in November!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VRMT is organized by several students and faculty from Vanderbilt. Lori Rafter &#8211; Principal Senior Lecturer Lori Rafter\u00a0has been\u00a0a lecturer in the math department at Vanderbilt since 2004, and she often teaches courses in Calculus and Statistics. 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