Catherine Buell
PROFESSOR
Mathematics
School of Health and Natural Sciences
cbuell1@fitchburgstate.edu
978.665.3077
Office: Edgerly Hall 312A
Website
Office Hours
Fall 2025
Tuesdays: 10a.m. - 11a.m. EDG 312A
Thursdays: 1:30p.m. - 2:30p.m. EDG 312A
Fridays: 10:30a.m. - 11a.m. and 12p.m. - 12:30p.m. HAMM G06
or by appointment
Background
Ph.D., North Carolina State University. 2011.
Algebraic Group Theory
Symmetric Spaces
Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
Mathematics Education
Studying the structure of symmetric spaces for SL_2(F-q)
Visual Stylometry: Integrating mathematics, philosophy, computer science, and art to classify artwork
Creating inquiry-based labs for calculus I and Calculus II sequence
Buell, C., A. Helminck, V. Klima, J. Schaefer, C. Wright, E. Ziliak (2020) Classifying the orbits of the generalized symmetric spaces of SL(2,F_q), Communications in Algebra, 48:4, 1744-1757.
Buell, C. A. and Piercey, V. (2019) Ethics in Mathematics. FOCUS, Feb/March.
Buell, C.A. & Shulman, B. (2019) An Introduction to Mathematics for Social Justice, PRIMUS, 29:3-4, 205-209.
berg, j., Buell, C., Day D., & Evans, R. (2019) Meaningful Mathematics: A Social-Justice-Themed-Introductory Statistics Course, PRIMUS, 29:3-4, 300-311.
berg, j., Buell, C., Day D., & Evans, R. (2019) Meaningful Mathematics: A Social-Justice-Themed-Introductory Statistics Course, PRIMUS, 29:3-4, 300-311.
Sethi, R., Buell, C., W. Seeley & Y. Gil (2017) Democratizing the Visual Stylometry of Art: Analysis of Artistic Style through Computational Workflows, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Mathematics Association of America (MAA)
American Mathematics Society (AMS)
Association for Women in Mathematics (AMW)