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I am a Full Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and the Dixon W. and Herta E. Benz Professor at Valparaiso University.

Contact Info

Address: Department of Mathematics & Statistics Gellersen Center 1900 Chapel Drive Valparaiso, IN 46383 Office Telephone Number: 219-464-5414 Office: Gellersen Center 222 E-Mail Address: Lara (dot) Pudwell (at) valpo (dot) edu

Curriculum Vita

Winter 2025/6 Schedule

Spring 2026 Schedule (starting Wednesday, January 14)

Current news: (12/19/25)

• In October, I spoke in the Special Session on Parking Functions and their Generalizations at the American Mathematical Society's Fall Central Sectional Meeting in St. Louis and I spoke in the Special Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory: The Audience Counts at the American Mathematical Society's Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting (virtual).
• In November, I participated in the Annual Conference of the Summer Mathematics Programs Consortium in Atlanta.

• In January 2026, I will attend the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, D.C., where I'll be a panelist on The Role of Community in Communicating Mathematics (hosted by the AMS Committee on Education), I'll speak in the Special Session on Permutation Patterns, and I'll speak in the Special Session on Bringing Research into the Math Classroom via Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences.
• In April 2026, I will be one of the keynote speakers for Troy MathFest at Troy University in Alabama.
• For Spring 2026, I'm teaching Discrete Math (2 Sections) and Transitions in Mathematics. I'm also coordinating my department's Mathematics Colloquium.

This site created and maintained by Lara Pudwell (Lara (dot) Pudwell (at) valpo (dot) edu).
Last updated 19 December 2025.