Jessica McDonald
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Jessica McDonald is a Canadian mathematician and professor at Auburn University who works primarily in graph theory. Her primary interests are in structure, colouring, and flows of graphs. She has receive multiple awards for her teaching and has obtained several national grants from the NSF and Simons Foundation. McDonald is renouned in graph theory giving invited talks across the United States and Canada.
Education
In 2003, McDonald obtained a Bachelor of Science Honours from Mount Allison University. McDonald then went on to receieve a Master of Math in 2004 and a PhD in mathematics in 2009 from the University of Waterloo.[1]
Career
In 2010, McDonald became a NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University. In 2012, McDonald was hired as an assistant professor at Auburn University and was promoted to associate professor in 2018.[2][1] She was promoted to full professor in 2025 with a reception happening September 2025.[3]
McDonald is on the editorial board for the journal Graphs and Combinatorics.[4] In 2017, she help run the mini-symposia on graph coloring for the 26th British Combinatorial Conference.[5]
In 2014, McDonald became the faculty coordinator for the Auburn Mathematical Puzzle Challenge.[6]
Awards and honors
Grants
McDonald was award a grant from the Simons Foundation for $8,400 that provided support between 2021 and 2023.[7][8] The National Science Foundation Division Of Mathematical Sciences awarded McDonald a $120,000 grant between 2016 and 2019 to fund her research in structure, colouring, and flows in graphs.[9][10]She also received grants from the AU Intramural Grants Program during 2014 to 2015 and 2020 to 2021.[11]
In 2015, the NSF awarded her a grant to host the Auburn Conference on Designs, Graphs, and Codes conference, a conference to celebrate the career and the 60th birthday of mathematician Christopher Andrew Rodger, the following year.[12][13][14][15]
Teaching and faculty awards
McDonald received the 2013 Robert K. Butz Award for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics Award which awarded her $1,500. In 2016, McDonald was awarded the Outstanding Female Faculty Award by the Society of Women in Sciences and Mathematics.[16] She also received the 2019 Marie Kraska Award for the Excellence in Teaching which awarded her $1,000.[17] For her teaching during the pandemic she was awarded the 2021 Outstanding Teacher of Graduate Students award.[18]
Invited tallks
In 2014, she was a keynote speaker alongside John Conway and Charles Colbourn at the 10th Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference.[11][19] In 2015, she was an invited speaker for the Fields Institute at the Discrete Math Days and Ontario Combinatorics Workshop.[20] In 2024, McDonald was the invited speaker for the 35th Midwestern Conference on Combinatorics and Combinatorial Computing.[21]
Selected Publications
Papers
- Devos, Matt; Dvořák, Zdeněk; Fox, Jacob; McDonald, Jessica; Mohar, Bojan; Scheide, Diego (June 2014). "A minimum degree condition forcing complete graph immersion". Combinatorica. 34 (3): 279–298. arXiv:1101.2630. doi:10.1007/s00493-014-2806-z.
Books
- McDonald, Jessica (2015). Topics in chromatic graph theory - Chapter 5 Edge-colourings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 94–113. ISBN 978-1-139-51979-3. Search this book on
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Jessica McDonald - Faculty - Mathematics and Statistics - Auburn University College of Sciences and Mathematics". www.auburn.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ "COSAM Welcomes New Faculty". Journey. Auburn University. 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ↑ "2024-2025 Promotion and Tenure | Office of the Provost". Promotion and Tenure. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ "Graphs and Combinatorics". SpringerLink. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ "BCC 2017 -- 26th British Combinatorial Conference". combinatorics.cis.strath.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ↑ "Local middle school teams compete in annual Auburn Mathematical Puzzle Challenge". www.auburn.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ "Travel Support for Mathematicians". Simons Foundation. 12 October 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ↑ Liles, Mark; Thomas, Amy; Rinker, Kris (March 29, 2023). "Annual Report on Research - FY 2022" (PDF). Auburn University College of Sciences and Mathematics Office of the Associate Dean for Research. pp. 33–35. Retrieved August 1, 2025.
- ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1600551". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ "McDonald awarded a three-year research grant by NSF". www.auburn.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "News from the Campuses Fall 2014 MAA Southeastern Section" (PDF). 33 (2). MAA Southeastern Section. Fall 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ↑ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1548285". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ↑ McDonald, Jessica; Asplund, John; Hammer, James. "Conference on Designs, Graphs, and Codes". Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ↑ "Dr. Jessica McDonald awarded an NSF grant for 2016 conference". auburn.edu. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ↑ "Auburn Conference on Designs, Graphs, and Codes". Auburn Conference on Designs, Graphs, and Codes. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2025. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "McDonald has received the 2016 Outstanding Female Faculty Award given by the Society of Women in Sciences and Mathematics". auburn.edu. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ↑ "Faculty Awards". www.auburn.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ "Dr. Jessica McDonald chosen as DMS 2021 Outstanding Teacher of Graduate Students". www.auburn.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ "Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference (GSCC)". auburn.edu. Retrieved 1 August 2025.
- ↑ "Fields Institute - Discrete Mathematics Days 2014". www.fields.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ↑ "McDonald invited to speak at 35th Midwestern Conference on Combinatorics and Combinatorial Computing". www.auburn.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
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