Karen Halbert: Artist/Mathemaician Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum vitae:
2016 – current. Marigold Arts Gallery, Canyon Road, Santa Fe.
2010-2018. Purple Sage Gallery, Oldtown, Albuquerque.
2005-current. Moved to Santa Fe from Woodstock to study with oil painting masters, Roger Williams, Doug Higgins, Bill Gallen and Albert Handell (and others). Volunteer Website Administrator for the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico. Continued to participate in juried exhibitions.  Frequently take painting trips to places such as the Grand Canyon, Hawaii and the Tetons. But I concentrate on painting trips to Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu and to Taos as well as  day trips around the environs of Santa Fe.
2003-2005. Studied with master oil painter, Keith Gunderson. Woodstock, NY.
2003. Retired and Moved full-time to Woodstock, NY.
2002-2005. Studied with watercolorist, Betsy Jacaruso, Woodstock, NY.
December 2001. Began serious training to become an artist.
2001 – 2003. SIAC/NYSE Vice President in charge of Trading Engines, managing over 100 people.
1997-2001. SIAC/NYSE. Managing Director of the Display Book, the premier application used by the Specialists on the floor of the NYSE.
1996-1997. SIAC/NYSE Computer Scientist/Manager of a New Display Book, managing dozens of consultants to update the systems on the NYSE.
1993-1995. SIAC/NYSE. Manager of the Specialists’ Display Book. 
1986-1992. SIAC/NYSE. Computer Programming Consultant.
1983-1986. Philon, Compiler Design Computer Software Startup Company. Programmer and Manager.
1973-1982. College of Mount Saint Vincent, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Riverdale, New York. Taught Beginner classes with references to Artistic terms such as Groups and their Graphs and the Fibonnacci Series. Taught advanced classes in Abstract Algebra with references to Geometric transformations between structures (groups) and to patterns such as tessellations of the plane. Courses taught included Calculus, Complex Analysis and Abstract Algebra as well as introductory courses in Mathematics and Computers to non-math majors.
1969-1973. Graduate Program in Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU. PhD in Combinatorial Group Theory. Dissertation. Symplectic Groups (Geometric Transformations of Hyper-space.) Taught in a teachers’ training program and taught undergraduate courses at NYU while a graduate student.
1967-1969. US Peace Corps. Chimbote, Peru. La Escuela Normal Marianista de Chimbote. Taught ’New Math’ to Elementary School teachers in Spanish.
1964-1966. Computer Programmer. Columbia University, Underwater Acoustics Research Laboratory in Dobbs Ferry, NY.
1960-1964. Undergraduate program at NYU majoring in Mathematics. Full NYU scholarship and NY State Regents Scholarship.
1956-1960. High School. Roosevelt High School, Honolulu, Hawaii. National Merit Finalist. Art Award.
1950-1955. Seattle, Washington. Attended Elementary School in Ballard and Catherine Blaine Junior High School in Magnolia.
1942-1950. Vancouver,Washington. Oldest of six children.

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