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 appl ...

. 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 re ...

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 liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Originally chartered in 1867 as the Albany Collegiate Institute in Albany, Oregon, the college was relocated to Portland in 1938 and in 1942 adopted the name Lewis & Cl ...

in Portland, OR. Cameron was born in

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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, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity" and accredited by the Middle States Commissi ...

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 and

algebraic combinatorics Algebraic combinatorics is an area of mathematics that employs methods of abstract algebra, notably group theory and representation theory, in various combinatorial contexts and, conversely, applies combinatorial techniques to problems in algeb ...

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 arithmetic function, integer-valued functions. German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777� ...

. 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