Benjamin R. Lynch
brlynch@math.tamu.edu
EXPERIENCE
2015 – Present
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Department of Mathematics
Lecturer
2011 – 2015
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Bioinformatics Research Center
Advisor: Dr. Eric Stone
Research at the interface of mathematics, statistics, and
biology, focused on theory and applications of spectral graph
theory as it relates to modern biological data sets.
Spring 2014
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Department of Mathematics
Lecturer
2004 – 2010
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Graduate Teaching Associate
EDUCATION
2004 – 2010
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Ph.D. Mathematics
Advisor: Dr. David Anderson
GPA: 4.0
Dissertation: Elasticity of Krull domains with infinite divisor
class group.
Research in commutative ring theory focused on nonunique
factorization.
2004
Spring & Summer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
Summer Undergraduate Leadership Internship
Research using Monte Carlo methods to simulate radiation in
trabecular bone.
2000 – 2003
Cedarville University, Cedarville, OH
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Minor in Bible
Highest Honors; GPA: 4.0
AWARDS
Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Tennessee, 2008
American Mathematical Society Travel Award, 2008
Science Alliance Fellowship Award, 2005 - 2009
Graduate Student Academic Achievement Award, Mathematics Department, 2005
Hilton Smith Fellowship, University of Tennessee, 2004 - 2005
Faculty Scholarship Award, Cedarville University, 2004
President’s Scholarship, Cedarville University, 2000 - 2004
Leadership Scholarship, Cedarville University, 2000 - 2002
Honors Program, Cedarville University, 2000 - 2003
CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS
North Carolina State University Department of Genetics Annual Colloquium, Wrightsville
Beach, NC. August 9-11, 2012.
Annual Meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology. Dublin, Ireland. June 23-26, 2012.
Genomic Sciences Graduate Student Association Retreat. Carolina Beach, NC. April
13-15, 2012.
Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical
Association of America. Washington, D.C. January 5 – 8, 2008.
Presented research with a talk titled: Elasticity of Krull domains with infinite class group.
Mathematical Association of America Professional Enhancement Program. The Art of
Factorization in Multiplicative Structures. San Antonio, Texas. May 20 – 25, 2007.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
One semester as a part-time Lecturer at Texas A&M University.
Math 152: Engineering Mathematics II
Five years of experience as a Graduate Teaching Associate at The University of
Tennessee:
Approximately 55 semester hours experience. Classes taught include:
Math 142: Calculus II
Math 141: Calculus I
Math 130: Precalculus
Math 125: Basic Calculus
Math 119: College Algebra
Math 115: Statistics
One year of experience as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at The University of
Tennessee:
Recitation for Math 125: Basic Calculus
Graded for Math 142: Calculus II and Math 421: Combinatorics
One summer assisted with the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program
at The University of Tennessee, funded by the National Science Foundation.
PUBLICATIONS
Griffing AR, Lynch BR, Stone EA. Structural properties of the minimum cut of
partially-supplied graphs. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 2014. 177: 152-157.
Griffing AR, Lynch BR, Stone EA. An eigenvector interlacing property of graphs that
arise from trees by Schur complementation of the Laplacian. Linear Algebra and its
Applications. 2013. 438(3):1078-1094.