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Christina Duron

Christina Durón

Associate Professor of Mathematics
Natural Science, Seaver College
RAC 105
https://cduron.info/

Biography

Dr. Christina Durón is an associate professor of mathematics at Pepperdine University. She earned her PhD in mathematics at Claremont Graduate University in 2019. Prior to joining Pepperdine in 2022, she was a postdoctoral research associate in the department of mathematics at the University of Arizona for three years. Dr. Durón would describe herself as an educator and scholar. Teaching mathematics is her passion and she is continually striving to become a more effective teacher by applying new tools and skills to motivate students both inside and outside of the classroom. In her research on network theory and analysis, Dr. Durón develops computational and statistical techniques to model, analyze, and explore complex, relational data.

 

Education

  • PhD Mathematics, Claremont Graduate University, 2019

 

  • Kravitz H, Durón C, Nieves B, Brio M. (2025). Data-driven optimization and parameter estimation for a metric graph epidemic model with applications to COVID-19 spread in Poland: A real-world example of optimization for a challenging Rosenbrock-type objective function. An International Journal of Optimization and Control: Theories & Applications (IJOCTA), 15(4). doi: 10.36922/IJOCTA025220106
  • Durón C, Kravitz H, Brio M. (2025). Edge percolation centrality: A new measure to quantify the influence of edges during percolation in networks. PLoS One 20(9): e0331475. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0331475
  • Durón C, Kravitz H, Brio M. (2025). Kolmogorov–Smirnov-Based Edge Centrality Measure for Metric Graphs. Dynamics, 5(2), 16. doi: 10.3390/dynamics5020016
  • Pfeffer D, Durón C. (2025). An Unlikely Duo: Injecting Art Projects in the Mathematics Classroom. Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 15(1), 87-108. doi: 10.5642/jhummath.RDDV3141
  • Kravitz H, Durón C, Brio M. (2024). A Coupled Spatial-Network Model: A Mathematical Framework for Applications in Epidemiology. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 86(132): 1 – 35. doi: 10.1007/s11538-024-01364-3
  • Durón C, Swansen B, Kravitz H. (2024). Difference Approximation. Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online (eds N. Balakrishnan, T. Colton, B. Everitt, W. Piegorsch, F. Ruggeri and J.L. Teugels). doi: 10.1002/9781118445112.stat08440
  • Sullivant N, Durón C, Pfeffer D. (2023). From Mirrors to Wallpapers: A Virtual Math Circle Module on Symmetry. Journal of Math Circles: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 1. 
  • MAA Project NExT Fellow, 2023-2024
  • 2022 Teaching and Service Award for the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona
  • Member: MAA

Topics

  • Network Theory
  • Network Dynamics
  • Analysis and Modeling of Complex Networks
  • Mathematical-Biology

Courses

  • Calculus 1
  • Linear Algebra
  • Mathematical Probability