Maura B. Mast

Associate Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Studies

and

Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston, MA 02125-3393

Office: Campus Center, 1st floor, suite 1300

Phone: (617) 287-6338
email:
maura.mast@umb.edu

Research Interests: the geometry of two-step nilmanifolds; quantitative literacy
Publications -- Math Research

Geodesics in Heisenberg-like two step nilpotent metric Lie groups (with R. DeCoste and L. DeMeyer), Journal of Lie Theory 21, no. 3 (2011), 711–727, abstract.
Minimal marked length spectrum of Riemannian two-step nilmanifolds (with Ruth Gornet), Michigan Math. J. 52, iss. 3 (2004), 683–716, doi:10.1307/mmj/1100623420.
Length minimizing geodesics and the length spectrum of Riemannian two-step nilmanifolds (with Ruth Gornet), Journal of Geometric Analysis, 13, No. 1, 2003 (first page).
The length spectrum of Riemannian two-step nilmanifolds (with Ruth Gornet). Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure (4) 33 (2000), no. 2, 181–209, (PDF).
Low-dimensional 2-step nilpotent Lie groups in resonance. Algebras Groups Geom. 14 (1997), no. 3, 321–337.
Closed geodesics in 2-step nilmanifolds. Indiana Univ. Math. J. 43 (1994), no. 3, 885–911.

Publications -- Quantitative Reasoning
- Common Sense, with Ethan Bolker, in preparation. This is a quantitative reasoning textbook. See our site and blog at www.quantitativereasoning.net This work is supported in part by National Science Foundation grant DUE-0942186.

Review of: Calculation vs. Context: Quantitative Literacy and Its Implications for Teacher Education, by B. Madison and L. Steen, in Numeracy, vol 2, issue 2 (2009). Direct link: http://services.bepress.com/numeracy/vol2/iss2/art6.
Quantitative Reasoning at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, (with Mack Pawlak), in Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy, edited by R. Gillman, MAA publications, 2006

former Clerk, Association for Women in Mathematics.
former Chair, SIGMAA-QL (Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on Quantitative Literacy)
Co-Chair, Joint Committee for Women in Mathematics
My children

Maura B. Mast

E-mail: maura.mast@umb.edu Last revised February 15, 2011