Audrey Lee-St. John

Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Mount Holyoke College

astjohn "at" mtholyoke.edu
Clapp 221
Department of Computer Science

Office hours (Spring 2012)
Mon 2:15 - 3:15pm
Wed 3:15 - 4:15pm
Thu 10-11am
and by appt

Courses

This semester (Spring 2012), I am teaching:

and advising (independent studies):

Felicia Cordeiro '12: Motion Simulation of Geometric Constraint Structures (honors thesis)
Rittika Shamsuddin '12: Computational Identification of Hinge Proteins (honors thesis)
Gabby Snyder and Ruimin Cai '14: IHart: Interactive Hallways for Attraction and Retention to Technology
Jessie Hamelin '13, Jingjing Rong '15 and Liye Fu '15 (in cooperation with Dr. Dan Barry): Robotics and mobile devices

Research

My research is in computational geometry -- algorithms and applications for geometric problems. A particular focus is in the area of rigidity theory, with motivating problems coming from biology and CAD (computer aided design). I continue to be affiliated with the LinKage group at UMass led by Ileana Streinu. Current and past projects include

rigidity theory for body-and-cad systems
pebble games for sparse graphs
motion/sampling conformations of molecule-like structures
single-vertex origami
Milka Doktorova's thesis project on computational analysis of the allosteric effect

Undergraduate Projects

IHart: Interactive Hallways for Attraction and Retention to Technology

Service and Events

National Computer Science Education Week 2010
Five College Consortium: CRA-W/CDC DLS Event
Tech Rendezvous with Alumnae
National Computer Science Education Week 2009
Fall 2009 CS Seminar
- 12/1/09 The Biggest Technology Shift You Never Heard Of -- Michael Scott, University of Rochester
- 11/18/09 Data mining: finding fraud, analyzing patterns, and crunching numbers -- Lisa Friedland, UMass Amherst
- 10/15/09 What's the use of a personal robot assistant? -- Dan Barry
Spring 2009 CS Seminar
- 4/16/09 The Fine Art of Computer Optimizations: Why real men (and women) don't rely on Moore's Law to speed up their code} -- Jon Greene, Redline Trading
- 3/24/09 Computer Science Department Network -- Adam Goodman, Mount Holyoke CS department
- 2/17/09 How studying computer science led me to be a video game developer -- Susanne Biehl, HitPoint Studios
**Cancelled** 12/9/08 Lunch for MHC CS students featuring Tanya Royer, senior producer at RealPlayer
11/18/08 Sammet Lecture at MHC: "Geometry of Colon Cancer and Topology of Lipid Fusion" -- Afra Zomorodian
11/12/08 Tea for MHC CS students: Grad panel discussion