ABOUT ME

Hello! My name is Anastasiia Minenkova. I got my PhD in applied mathematics in May 2022, then I joined the Mount Holyoke College as a Visiting Lecturer for a year and since Fall 2023, I am an assistant professor at the University of Hartford.

Educational background

University of Connecticut

August 2017 - May 2022

I finished my PhD under supervision of Prof. Vadim Olshevsky in May 2022. My dissertation's title is "Stability of some canonical forms of matrices under small perturbations"

University of Mississippi

August 2014 - May 2017

I got my Master of Science degree here. My master's committee members were Prof. Q. Bu, Prof E. Mina Diaz and Prof. S. Spiroff

Academic Positions

Visiting Lecturer at MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE

July 2022 - June 2023

Assistant Professor at University of Hartford

August 2023 - present

AWARD and GRANTS

2024 - Vincent B. Coffin Grant, University of Hartford

2024 - SIAM-Simons Undergraduate Summer Research Program Mentor, SIAM
2024 - EDI Change Agent, SIAM

2024 - Departmental Inclusive Excellence and Belonging (IEB) Initiatives Grant, University of Hartford

2024 - Greenberg Junior Faculty Grant, University of Hartford.

2023 - PUI Faculty Travel Grant, AMS.
2023 - Dean's Research Fund Award, University of Hartford.
2023 - Project NExT fellow, MAA.
2022 - Conference Participation Award, UConn.
2021 - AWM and AMS Graduate Student Travel Grants for 2022 JMM.
2021 - Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, UConn.
2021 - Louis J. DeLuca Memorial Award to acknowledge the impressive teaching accomplishments, UConn.
2020 - Virtual Grad Student Travel Grant for attendance at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, AMS.
2020 - Predoctoral Fellowship for Spring 2021, Department of Mathematics and Graduate School, UConn.
2020 - Connie Strange Community Award, Department of Mathematics, UConn.
2020 - Graduate Student Travel Grant to Spring 2020 AMS Sectional meetings.(the meeting was canceled)
2019 - The Edward Victor Gant Scholarship, the scholarship is granted on the basis of academic excellence, professional potential, dedicated service, and exemplary integrity.