Name:  Valerie Hower           

Email address:  vhower@wfubmc.edu   

Education:
                       Mathematics, Ph.D. at University of Georgia 05/2007
                  Mathematics, M.S. at University of Nebraska-Lincoln 12/2002
                  Mathematics/Psychology, B.S. at Texas State University 08/2000

Advisor/Lab: Dr. Suzy Torti

Current Research:  Our lab is collecting data to develop a mathematical model of the iron metabolic network in human breast cancer.

Publications:
V. Hower, Hodge spaces for real toric varieties. arXiv:0705.0516v1, in review.

V. Hower, A counterexample to the maximality of toric varieties. arXiv:math/0611925v1, accepted for publication, Proceedings of the A.M.S.

V. Cormani, Liouville's formula on time scales. Special issue: dynamic equations on time scales. Dynam. Systems Appl. 12 (2003), no. 1-2, 79--86.

Hobbies – Other:  marathon running