Dr. Tenner earned her AB and AM degrees from Harvard University in 2002, and her PhD in Mathematics from MIT in 2006 under the direction of Richard Stanley. She joined the faculty at DePaul University in 2007. Dr. Tenner is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Dr. Tenner's research is in combinatorics, with particular interests in algebraic, enumerative, and topological questions.
Selected publications:
Bargain hunting in a Coxeter group
Annals of Combinatorics 28 (2024), 961-976 (with Joel Brewster Lewis)
Discrete geometry for electoral geography
Political Geography 109 (2024), 103040 (with Moon Duchin)
RSK tableaux and the weak order on fully commutative permutations
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 30 (2023), P4.33
(with Emily Gunawan, Jianping Pan, and Heather M. Russell)
- Intersecting principal Bruhat ideals and grades of simple modules
Combinatorial Theory 2 (2022), no. 14 (with Volodymyr Mazorchuk).
- Odd diagrams, Bruhat order, and pattern avoidance
Combinatorial Theory 2 (2022), no. 13 (with Francesco Brenti and Angela Carnevale).
- Star factorizations and noncrossing partitions
Discrete Mathematics 344 (2021), 112428.
- The range of repetition in reduced decompositions
Advances in Applied Mathematics 122 (2021), 102107.