Publications

Notes
  • 2900+ citations on Google Scholar as of Feb., 2024
  • 14 peer-reviewed articles with 31 undergraduate students cited 428 times as of Feb., 2024
  • Covered in The Atlantic, Forbes, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, Inside Higher Ed, MIT Technology Review, Mother Jones, People, Science, Smithsonian Magazine, and more (see Press)
  • In alignment with my commitment to equity, recent papers are published open access
  • Asterisk denotes undergraduate student co-author
  • Includes peer-reviewed (approx 70%), editor-reviewed (approx 25%), self-published (approx 5%)
Research, Expository writing, and public scholarship
69.LINKC.M. Topaz, B. Garcia Nueva, P. Izidro de Souza, J. Schumann, L. Shvedova, X. Cai, S. Ning. Race and Superfund site remediation, submitted (2024).
68.LINKC.M. Topaz, H.Z. Brooks, U. Kan, B. Sandstede, C.M. Smith. Diversity, identity, and data, Am. Math. Month. (forthcoming, 2024).
67.LINK*U. Bahl, C.M. Topaz, *L. Obermüller, *S. Goldstein, *M. Sneirson. Algorithms in judges' hands: Incarceration and inequity in Broward County, Florida, UCLA Law Rev. (forthcoming, 2024).
66.LINKG. Gharooni-Fard, M. Byers, V. Deshmukh, E. Bradley, C. Mayo, C.M. Topaz, O. Peleg. A computational topology-based spatiotemporal analysis technique for honeybee aggregation, NPJ Complexity 1 (1) (2024).
65.LINKC.M. Topaz, J.A. Higdon. News media coverage of gun violence: A systematic review, report of QSIDE Institute (2024).
64.LINKE.M. Sanford, C.M. Topaz, J. Halberda. Modeling magnitude discrimination: effects of internal precision and attentional weighting of feature dimensions, Cog. Sci. 48 (2) (2024).
63.LINKM.-V. Ciocanel, N. Goldrosen, C.M. Topaz. Quantifying federal sentencing disparities with inferred sentencing records. SIAM News Research (2023).
62.LINKC.M. Topaz. WVU’s Cuts: A threat to digital age justice, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education (2023).
61.LINKO. Oren, C.M. Topaz, C.M. Oliva. Studying judicial decision-making is not intimidation, New York Law J. (2023).
60.LINKC.M. Topaz, S. Ning, M.-V. Ciocanel, S. Bushway. Federal criminal sentencing: race-based disparate impact and differential treatment in judicial districts, Nature Hum. Soc. Sci. Comm. 10 (366) (2023).
59.
LINKC. FitzGerald, Y. Huang, K. Plaisier Leisman, C.M. Topaz. Temporal dynamics of faculty hiring in mathematics, Nature Hum. Soc. Soc. Comm. 10 (227) (2023).
58.LINKO. Oren, C.M. Topaz. Study of judges reveals costs of pretrial detention, Albany Times Union (2023).
57.LINKO. Oren, C.M. Topaz, C. Oliva. Cost of discretion: Judicial decision-making, pretrial detention, and public safety in New York City, report of Scrutinize, Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity, and the Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law (2023).
56.LINKN. Goldrosen, C.M. Smith, M.-V. Ciocanel, R. Santorella, S. Sen, S. Bushway, C.M. Topaz. Racial disparities in criminal sentencing vary considerably across federal judges, J. Inst. Theor. Econ. 179 (1) (2023).
55.LINKN. Brown, C.M. Topaz. How STEM faculty can fight institutional racism and sexism, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education (2022).
54.LINKN. Brown, N. Hatfield, C.M. Topaz. Do introductory courses disproportionately drive minoritized students out of STEM pathways, PNAS Nexus 1 (4) (2022).
53.LINKC.M. Topaz, J. Higdon, A. Epps-Darling, *E. Siau, H. Kerkhoff, *S. Mendiratta, E. Young. Race- and gender-based under-representation of creative contributors: art, fashion, film, and music, Nature Hum. Soc. Sci. Comm. 9 (221) (2022).
52.LINKT. DeGiovanni, W. Hamilton, R. Hardenbrook, J. Higdon, O. Koppe, K. Patel, C.M. Topaz. Datathons4Justice address social justice issues with data science, SIAM News (2022).
51.LINKJ. Higdon, C.M. Topaz. What happened when Rikers let out hundreds? Follow the facts. New York Daily News (2022).
50.LINK*L. Xian, H. Adams, C.M. Topaz, L. Ziegelmeier. Capturing dynamics of time-varying data via topology, Found. Data Sci. (2022).
49.LINK*E. Miller, B.D. Martin, C.M. Topaz. New York City jails: COVID discharge policy, data transparency, and reform, PLOS One 17 (1) (2022).
48.LINKV. Deshmukh, G.G. Fard, E. Bradley, C.M. Topaz, O. Peleg. A persistent homology approach to characterize honeybee behavior during food exchange, SIAM News Research (2021).
47.LINKC.M. Topaz. An ill-advised linear algebra tutorial, self-published (2021).
46.LINK*D. Maes, *J. Tucher, C.M. Topaz. Affirmative action, critical mass, and a predictive model of undergraduate student body demographics, PLOS One 16 (5) (2021).
45.LINKJ. Crodelle, C. Vallejo, M. Schmidtchen, C.M. Topaz, M.R. D’Orsogna. Impacts of California Proposition 47 on crime in Santa Monica, CA, PLOS One 16 (5) (2021).
44.LINKM. Feng, A. Hickok, Y.H. Kureh, M.A. Porter, C.M. Topaz. Connecting the dots: Discovering the shape of data, Front. Young Minds 9 (2021).
43.LINKB.C. Heggeseth, C.M. Topaz. When data meets diversity, SIAM News 53 (10) (2020).
42.LINKM.-V. Ciocanel, C.M. Topaz, R. Santorella, S. Sen, C.M. Smith, *A. Hufstetler. JUSTFAIR: Judicial System Transparency through Federal Archive Inferred Records, PLOS One 15 (10) (2020).
41.LINK*M.R. Knoedler, *J.C. Kostas, *C.M. Hogan, *H. Kerkhoff, C.M. Topaz. An unpublished manuscript of John von Neumann on shock waves in boostered detonations, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 74 (6) (2020).
40.LINKC.M. Topaz, J. Cart, C. Diaz Eaton, A. Hanson Shrout, J.A. Higdon, K. Ince, B. Katz, D. Lewis, J. Libertini, C.M. Smith. Demographic study of signatories to public letters on diversity in the mathematical sciences, PLOS One 15 (4) (2020).
39.LINKJ.K. Castelino, D.J. Ratliff, A.M. Rucklidge, P. Subramanian, C.M. Topaz. Spatiotemporal chaos and quasipatterns in coupled reaction-diffusion systems, Physica D (409) (2020).
38.LINKC.M. Topaz, M.-V. Ciocanel, P. Cohen, M. Ott, N. Rodrí­guez. Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity, Notices AMS 67 (2) (2020).
37.LINKH. Adams, M.-V. Ciocanel, C.M. Topaz, L. Ziegelmeier. Topological data analysis of collective motion, SIAM News 53 (1) (2020).
36.LINKD. Bhaskar, A. Manhart, J. Milzman, J.T. Nardini, K. Storey, C.M. Topaz, L. Ziegelmeier. Analyzing collective motion with machine learning and topology, Chaos 29 (12) (2019).
35.LINKM.J. Panaggio, M.-V. Ciocanel, L. Lazarus, C.M. Topaz, B. Xu. Model reconstruction from temporal data for coupled oscillator networks, Chaos 29 (10) (2019).
34.LINKC.M. Topaz, B. Klingenberg, D. Turek, B. Heggeseth, P. Harris, J. C. Blackwood, C. Ondine Chavoya, S. Nelson, K. M. Murphy. Diversity of artists in major U.S. museums, PLOS One 14 (3) (2019).
33.LINK*M. Ulmer, L. Ziegelmeier, C.M. Topaz. A topological approach to selecting models of biological experiments, PLOS One 14 (3) (2019).
32.LINKL. Chen, R. Kasman, J. Rana, C.M. Topaz. Interested in applying to a liberal arts institution, Notices AMS 66 (6) (2019).
31.LINKC.M. Topaz, S. Sen. Gender disparities on mathematical sciences editorial boards, Assoc. Women Sci. Mag. 51 (1) (2019).
30.LINKC.M. Topaz. Your next mathematics research project, Math Horizons 26 (3) (2019).
29.LINKA.J. Bernoff, C.M. Topaz. Nonlocal aggregation models, local approximation, and the degenerate Cahn-Hilliard equation, SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Sys. 15 (3) (2016).
28.LINKC.M. Topaz, S. Sen. Gender representation on journal editorial boards in the mathematical sciences, PLOS One 11 (8) (2016).
27.LINKL. Ziegelmeier, C.M. Topaz. Flipped calculus: A study of student performance and perceptions, PRIMUS 29 (9 – 10) (2015). Second most-read article of all time for this journal.
26.LINKC.M. Topaz, J.A. Higdon. Six ways to upend the focus on good grades, MAA Teaching Tidbits (2017).
25.LINKC.M. Topaz, M. Mei. Guide to lit searching for the disinclined, AMS E-Mentoring Blog (2017).
24.LINKC.M. Topaz. Topological data analysis: One applied mathematician’s heartwarming story of struggle, triumph, and ultimately, more struggle, SIAM Dynamical Systems Web (2016). Most-read article of all time for this web magazine.
23.LINKC.M. Topaz, L. Ziegelmeier, T. Halverson. Topological data analysis of biological aggregation models, PLOS One 10 (5) (2015).
22.LINKC.M. Topaz. Self-help homology tutorial for the simple(x)-minded, self-published online (2015).
21.LINKE. Sander, C.M. Topaz, Epidemics in the presence of social attraction and repulsion, in Mathematical Modeling of Zombies (2014), University of Ottawa Press.
20.LINKC.M. Topaz. Research: It doesn’t take a genius, SIAM News Blog (2014).
19.LINK*C. Nilsen, *J. Paige, *O. Warner, *B. Mayhew, *R. Sutley, *M. Lam, A.J. Bernoff, C.M. Topaz. Social aggregation in pea aphids: Experiment and random walk modeling, PLOS One 8 (12) (2013).
18.LINKA.J. Bernoff, C.M. Topaz. Nonlocal aggregation equations, SIAM Rev. 55 (4) (2013). SIGEST Selection Paper.
17.LINKC.M. Topaz, M.R. D’Orsogna, L. Edelstein-Keshet, A.J. Bernoff. Locust dynamics: Behavioral phase change and swarming, PLOS Comp. Biol. 8 (8) (2012).
16.LINKA.J. Catlla , *A. McNamara, C.M. Topaz. Instabilities and patterns in coupled reaction-diffusion layers, Phys. Rev. E 85 (2) (2012).
15.LINKA.J. Bernoff, C.M. Topaz. A primer of swarm equilibria, SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Sys. 10 (1) (2011). “Highly Cited Paper”, receiving enough citations to place it in the top 1% of its academic field according to Essential Science Indicators. Winner of a 2013 SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, given to three papers selected from the pool of all SIAM journals over the prior three years.
14.LINKC.M. Topaz, A.J. Catlla. Forced patterns near a Turing-Hopf bifurcation, Phys. Rev. E 81 (2) (2010).
13.LINK*A.J. Leverentz, C.M. Topaz, A.J. Bernoff. Asymptotic dynamics of attractive-repulsive swarms, SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Sys. 8 (3) (2009).
12.LINKJ.A. Higdon, C.M. Topaz. Blogs and wikis as instructional tools: A social software adaptation of just-in-time teaching, College Teaching 59 (2) (2009).
11.LINKC.M. Topaz, A.J. Bernoff, *S. Logan, *W. Toolson. A model for rolling swarms of locusts, Euro. Phys. J. ST 157 (1) (2008).
10.LINKC.M. Topaz. Review of “Continuum modeling in the physical sciences” by van Groesen and Molenaar, Biometrics 64 (2008).
9.LINKC.M. Topaz, A.L. Bertozzi, M.A. Lewis. A nonlocal continuum model for biological aggregation, Bull. Math Bio. 68 (7) (2006). “Highly Cited Paper,” receiving enough citations to place it in the top 1% of its academic field according to Essential Science Indicators.
8.LINKR. Breban, I. McGowan, C.M. Topaz, E. Schwartz, P. Anton, S. Blower. Modeling the potential impact of rectal microbicides to reduce HIV transmission in bathhouses. Math. Biosci. Engin. 3 (3) (2006).
7.LINKC.M. Topaz, J. Porter, M. Silber. Multi-frequency control of Faraday wave patterns, Phys. Rev. E 70 (6) (2004).
6.LINKJ. Porter, C.M. Topaz, M. Silber. Pattern control via multi-frequency parametric forcing, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (3) (2004).
5.LINKC.M. Topaz, A.L. Bertozzi. Swarming patterns in a two-dimensional kinematic model for biological groups, SIAM J. Appl. Math 65 (1) (2004).
4.LINK*B. Cook, D. Marthaler, C.M. Topaz, A.L. Bertozzi, M. Kemp. Fractional bandwidth reacquisition algorithms for VSW-MCM, in A.C. Schultz, et al. (Eds.), Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Vol. 2, (2003).
3.LINKC.M. Topaz, M. Silber. Resonances and superlattice pattern stabilization in two-frequency forced Faraday waves, Physica D 172 (1 – 4) (2002).
2.LINKM. Silber, C.M. Topaz, A.C. Skeldon. Two-frequency forced Faraday waves: Weakly damped modes and pattern selection, Physica D 143 (1 – 4) (2000).
1.LINKC.M. Topaz. Pattern formation in two-frequency forced Faraday waves, Ph.D. dissertation (2002).