Assistant Dean of Professional Development & Communication in the Graduate School and Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, working in the area of Commutative Algebra
Research Interests
Commutative algebraic structures, including rings, ideals, and modules, and the associated homomorphisms
Biography
Sandra Spiroff, originally from St. Louis, MO, has been a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Mississippi since 2008. She held a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT.
In 2022, she joined the Graduate School as the inaugural Assistant Dean of Professional Development and Communication. Prior to the current appointment, Dr. Spiroff served as a rotator for two years with the National Science Foundation in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.
Publications
(With S. El Khoury, S. Faridi, L.\c{S}ega) The Scarf complex and betti numbers of powers of extremal ideals, J. Pure & Appl. Alg., 228 (2024) no. 6, Paper No.107577, 32 pp.
(With S. Cooper, S. El Khoury, S. Faridi, S. Mayes-Tang, S. Morey, and L. \c{S}ega) Morse resolutions of powers of square-free monomial ideals of projective dimension one, J. Algebraic Combinatorics, 55 (2022), no. 4, 1085-1122.
(With E. Witt and L. N\'u\~nez-Betancourt) Connectedness and Lyubeznik numbers, International Math Res. Notices, 2019 (2019) no. 13, 4233-4259.
(With S. Sather-Wagstaff and T. Se) Ladder determinantal rings over normal domains, Communications in Algebra, 49 (2021), no. 7, 2804-2828.
(With G. Johnson) Automating the calculation of the Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity and F-signature, Software X, 9 (2019) 35-38.
(With F. Enescu) Computing the invariants of intersection algebras of principal monomial ideals, International J. of Alg. & Computation, 29 (2019), no. 2, 309-332.
(With F. Moore, G. Piepmeyer, and M.E. Walker) Hochster's theta invariant and the Hodge-Riemann bilinear relations, Advances in Math., 226 (2010), no.2, 1692-1714.
Education
B.S. Mathematics, Indiana University-Bloomington (1991)
M.A. Mathematics, Saint Louis University (1996)
Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2003)