Mathematics Major

Ms. Ertl earned her B.S. in Mathematics and Secondary Education Teacher Certification from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 2011. She continued on to earn her M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2014 where she won the Ernst Schwandt Award, an award given to a graduate teaching assistant who demonstrated excellence in mathematics teaching. Her interests are in mathematics education, and her master's thesis focused on The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and the Singapore Mathematics Curriculum Framework.

Dr. Hom Kandel is an Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and the Director of the Applied Physics Laboratory at University of Wisconsin-Parkside. His research interests are in growth and studies of oxide thin films and heterostructures to lead the advancements in superconductor electronics and very high field superconducting magnet technology. Currently, his research group is actively working to develop a high temperature superconductor based S-I-S sandwich type Josephson junction device for potential applications in next-generation SQUID biosensors, quantum computing, and terahertz frequency devices.

Prior to coming to the UW-Parkside in 2016, Dr. Kandel was a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (National MagLab) in Florida State University which is the largest and the highest-powered magnet laboratory in the world. At the National MagLab, he was the lead scientist to develop novel electrical insulators for YBCO and BSCCO based high field superconductor magnet technology for which he holds two issued US patents.

Dr. Kandel's research continues to focus on cutting edge research in Applied Physics , Materials Science & Engineering, and Experimental Condensed Matter Physics and he maintains a close collaboration with researchers at the Oxide Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University, and University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI.

Currently, Dr. Kandel serves as the Academic Editor of Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Journal Paper and Advisor to the Parkside Journal of Science. He served as the Technical Editor of Magnet Technology Conference Proceedings in 2017, peer-reviewer of two SBIR Grant Proposals under the US Department of Energy in 2016 and 2017, and Chairperson of Young Professionals Group at IEEE Council on Applied Superconductivity from 2014 to 2016.

Richard Karwatka is a product of the University of Wisconsin System, having pursued undergraduate study in mathematics, French, and history at UW-Parkside and graduate study in mathematics and mathematics education at UW-Madison. His professional teaching career began as a teaching assistant at UW-Madison where his efforts in calculus instruction earned him one of the inaugural French-Felten Awards for Inspirational Teaching bestowed by the College of Letters and Science. He returned to UW-Parkside as a member of the instructional academic staff teaching courses in the pre-calculus mathematics curriculum and has since been deeply involved in continuing efforts to improve content delivery and student outcomes in mathematics courses, eventually serving as Coordinator of Developmental and Proficiency-Based Mathematics at UW-Parkside and as Chair of the UW Mathematics Placement Test Development Committee at UW System. As a UW-Parkside alumnus, he always hoped that he would be able to return to his alma mater to contribute to it in gratitude for the path on which it set him, and he has been honored to receive the Stella C. Gray Teaching Excellence Award and the Academic Staff Distinguished Service Award in recognition of those contributions.

When not engaging matters mathematical, Karwatka enjoys music, art, and history, especially that of the monarchies from which his ancestors emerged. He is a particular fan of the Habsburg Empire in all its incarnations and would gladly go on and on about it for hours if given the opportunity.

Bom Soo Kim is a faculty member at UW-Parkside with research interests in a number of interdisciplinary fields anchored to theoretical physics using quantum field theory and string theory. While formally trained in high energy particle physics, his research interests have been extended to condensed matter physics, material science, and quantum information science. His specific research topics include magnetic skyrmions & Hall transport, hydrodynamics with broken boost, entanglement entropy with background fields, and holographic renormalization.

Bom Soo Kim received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley and his B.S. in astronomy from Yonsei University. He trained as a postdoctoral researcher in a joint appointment with IESL-FORTH and the University of Crete and then at Tel Aviv University. He previously worked as a teaching postdoc at the University of Kentucky and as a full time Lecturer at Loyola University Maryland. He is excited to share his experiences working at academic institutions with different cultures and to further collaborate in his research and teaching with students and faculty members at UW-Parkside.

Paul (Pirooz) Mohazzabi received his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry in 1969 from overseas, and MS and PhD degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972 and 1975, respectively. After receiving his PhD degree, Paul realized that his true passion was in theoretical physics and mathematics, and remained as a physicist ever since.<br>After working at other institutions for 10 years, Paul joined the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in January of 1986 as an Assistant Professor of Physics. In 1988, he received tenure and in 1994 he was promoted to the rank of Full Professor.<br>Paul’s area of expertise is theoretical and computational physics. Nevertheless, he has published nearly 100 research articles in refereed international journals in a wide variety of disciplines including physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, materials science, engineering, and medicine. His articles range from bicycle stability to cancer theory. Paul’s current research interests are (a) theoretical and computational thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of small and nanosystems, particularly through Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations, (b) Theoretical and computational studies of thermal and mechanical properties of solids and liquids, (c) Pedagogical aspects of physics and mathematics.<br>At the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Paul has received three Stella Gray Teaching Excellence Awards, Two awards for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity, and a Faculty Distinguished Service Award.<br>Some of Paul’s former students have gone on to become educators themselves, as high-school teachers or professors at major universities.

I took my very first physics class at the University of North Texas and later transferred to the University of Texas at Austin where I studied for my B.S. in Physics and B.A. in Astronomy, finishing in 2002, and completed my PhD in physics in 2010 at the Ohio State University. So, I've lived in Texas and Ohio and more recently in Illinois where I did research Argonne National Laboratory and taught at Benedictine University and in Indiana where I taught at Ivy Tech Community College in Columbus, IN.

Ms. Annastasia Maria Schoettler (MATH). In 2010, Ms. Schoettler earned a B.S. in Mathematics with a Philosophy Minor from the University of Wisconsin – Parkside in her hometown of Kenosha. As a Graduate Assistance for Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellow and teaching assistant, she continued her studies at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee earning an M.S. in Mathematics in 2012. Her master’s thesis entitled Mathematics as a Language focused on the historical formation, symbolic representation, and grammatical structure of written mathematics. Most recently, she has taught mathematics at the college level in both Lincroft, New Jersey and the greater Rochester, New York area.