Zajj Daugherty
Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics and Statistics Department
Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences
My research is in combinatorial representation theory, where we use tools from linear algebra and discrete mathematics to study more abstract algebraic structures. My favorite algebras can be drawn as sets of diagrams like braids or graphs, and encode special functions arising in physics, knot theory, voting theory, and elsewhere. I hold degrees in mathematics from Harvey Mudd College (BS, 2005) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (MA 2008, PhD 2010). After postdoctoral work at St. Olaf College, Dartmouth College, the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), and the University of Melbourne, and a faculty position at the City College of New York, I joined the department of Mathematics and Statistics here at Reed in 2022.