Naiomi Tuere Cameron is an American mathematician working in the field of

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many a ...

. She is an associate professor at

Spelman College Spelman College is a private, historically black, women's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia. It is part of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium in Atlanta. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman r ...

as well as the vice president of

National Association of Mathematicians The National Association of Mathematicians is a professional association for mathematicians in the US, especially African Americans and other minorities. It was founded in 1969.

. She was previously an associate professor at

Lewis & Clark College Lewis & Clark College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Originally chartered in 1867 as the Albany Collegiate Institute in Albany, Oregon, the college was relocate ...

in Portland, OR. Cameron was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in

Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...

. She attended

Howard University Howard University (Howard) is a Private university, private, University charter#Federal, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classifie ...

for her undergraduate and graduate school, receiving both her B.S. and PhD in Mathematics. In 2019, she was featured on '' Mathematically Gifted and Black'' as a Black History Month 2019 Honoree.

Research

Cameron's academic work has been focused on

enumerative An enumeration is a complete, ordered listing of all the items in a collection. The term is commonly used in mathematics and computer science to refer to a listing of all of the elements of a set. The precise requirements for an enumeration (f ...

and algebraic combinatorics and

number theory Number theory (or arithmetic or higher arithmetic in older usage) is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) said, "Math ...

. Her thesis for her dissertation in 2002 was ''Random Walks, Trees and Extensions of Riordan Group Techniques''. Her other publications include: * N. Cameron, K. Killpatrick, Inversion polynomials for permutations avoiding consecutive patterns, Advances in Applied Mathematics 67 (2015), 20–35. * N. Cameron, K. Killpatrick, Symmetry and log-concavity results for statistics on Fibonacci tableaux, Annals of Combinatorics, 17 (2013), no. 4, 603-618.

Additional work

Cameron is the vice president of the

for the 2019–2020 term.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cameron, Naiomi 21st-century American mathematicians American women mathematicians Combinatorialists Howard University alumni Spelman College faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women