Other Activities

Before graduate school Christine worked for a year at Los Alamos National Laboratory and participated in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics and Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge University in England.
Academic Visits
Professional Service
  • Associate Editor for the International Journal of Information and Coding Theory (IJICoT), Interscience, U.K.
  • On International Program Committee for the 2012 Mathematical Theory of Network and Systems (MTNS) Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Organizer of a special session on coding theory (with Judy Walker) at the AMS Sectional Meeting at UNL in October 2011.
  • Judge for the Ohio State University Young Mathematicians Conference, 2011.
  • Referee for:
    • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
    • IEEE Transactions on Communications
    • IEEE Communications Letters
    • Journal of Applied Algebra
    • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security
    • Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on capacity-approaching codes
    • International J. on Information and Coding Theory, special issue in honour of Vera Pless
    • Central European Journal of Mathematics
  • Referee for the following conferences:
    • IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (2007, 2008, 2010) 
    • IEEE Information Theory Workshop (2006)
    • Turbo Codes Conference (2008)
    • International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (2008) 
    • Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms, and Error-Correcting Codes (AAECC-18) (2009) 
    • Twelfth IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding (2009)
    • Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (2010) 
    • Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2010)
    • International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Iterative Information Processing (2010)
Doctoral Committees
  • Current committee chair (i.e. doctoral advisor) for Kathryn Haymaker.
  • Current committee member for:
    • James Carraher (advisor: Stephen Hartke)
    • Lauren Keough (advisor: Jamie Radcliffe)
    • Katherine Morrison (advisor: Judy Walker)
    • Zach Roth (advisor: Judy Walker)
    • Elena Sherman (Department of Computer Science; advisor: Matt Dwyer)
  • Past committee member for:
    • Deanna Dreher (graduated May 2010, advisor: Judy Walker)
    • Andrew Ray (graduated May 2011, advisor: Jamie Radcliffe)
    • Tyler Seacrest (graduated May 2011, advisor: Stephen Hartke)
Other Department Service
  • Executive Committee Member, 2011-present.
  • Algebra Search Committee Member, 2011-2012.
  • Co-writer and grader for the graduate discrete math qualifying exam, June 2011.
  • Undergraduate Advisory Committee Member, 2010-2011.
  • Organizer for the weekly Discrete Mathematics Seminar, Fall 2009, 2010 and Spring 2010.
Seminars
Outreach
  • 2009-2010: Partnered with a Lincoln Public School (LPS) math coach and LPS teachers to design and facilitate lessons for local sixth grade math classes that incorporate coding and cryptography. Three lessons were piloted at Culler Middle School in October 2009 and April 2010. Culler is one of the lower economic level schools in Lincoln. (08/09 - 05/10)
  • Keynote speaker at Math Days for Women, University of South Dakota, "Fun in Cryptography: a look at how to send and protect secret messages" (75 minute talk, interactive), September 24, 2009.
  • Plenary speaker at Math on the Northern Plains Conference for Undergraduates, "Codes on graphs and the quest for good codes", (50 minutes), Morningside College, Iowa, April 2010.
Pedagogical Training
  • Participated in Sage: Using Open-Source Mathematics Software with Undergraduates, an MAA Professional Enhancement Program (PREP) course, 16 contact hours, Summer 2010.
  • Project NExT activities at Mathfest 2008 (August), Joint Mathematics Meeting 2009 (January), Mathfest 2009 (August).
  • UNL Math Department Teaching Mentoring Program, since Fall 2008.
  • Attended 2nd Annual Mini-Conference on Great Teaching, Ohio State University, April 2008.
  • Attended Teaching Linear Algebra and Its Applications mini-course, and Getting Undergraduate Students Involved in Research mini-course at the AMS Joint Meetings, January 2006.
  • Teaching Well Using Technology Certificate, University of Notre Dame, 2005 - 2006.
  • Striving for Excellence in Teaching Certificate, University of Notre Dame, 2005 - 2006.
  • Teaching Seminar, Mathematics Department, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2001, 2002.