DR. KYLE ORMSBYK
Kyle Ormsby is a mathematician working at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He earned his BA from the University of Chicago in 2006 and his PhD from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2010. After an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at MIT, he joined the Reed College faculty in 2014. He has also had visiting appointments at the University of Oslo, the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, the University of Washington, and the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center, and he currently serves as the chair of Reed’s Department of Mathematics & Statistics. His work has been supported by a number of NSF and NIA grants.
Ormsby’s training is as an algebraic topologist, and his thesis work studied ways in which tools from stable homotopy theory can be applied in algebraic geometry via Morel and Voevodsky’s motivic homotopy theory. Ormsby’s work continues to use the perspective and tools of algebraic topology to explore other domains, including symmetry, combinatorics, category theory, and applied work in medical image analysis.
Ormsby is also a passionate leader of undergraduate research and research development, primarily through Reed’s Collaborative Mathematics Research Group, which he co-directs with Angélica Osorno. He has coauthored seven research papers with Reed undergraduates and has mentored an additional five papers authored solely by undergraduates. This is his first time serving as a McNair Faculty Mentor.