Bevin Maultsby, Department of Mathematics

I am a Teaching Professor in the Department of Mathematics at NC State University and the coordinator for Distance Education in the Mathematics department.

I am broadly interested in the scholarship of Teaching and Learning. My interest include online teaching and course creation, course design, alternative assessments (mastery and standards-based grading, ungrading), inquiry-based learning, and using generative AI in the classroom. My mathematical background is in applied dynamical systems.

I am co-organizer of the biweekly national seminar Teaching Mathematics with Generative AI with Feryal Alayont, Rachael Lund, and Lew Ludwig. Please contact me if you would like to join or present.

Additionally, I post a lot of videos on my YouTube channel. Some of these are used in my courses, while others are just for fun.

Bio

Positions held

2025–present, Teaching Professor, Department of Mathematics, NC State University
2020-2025, Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, NC State University
2016-2020, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, NC State University
Summer 2016, Instructor for Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP)
2014-2016, MathCEP Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Part of my postdoctoral teaching experience including teaching courses and mentoring students on projects with the University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program (UMTYMP)

Education

2014, Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Advisor: Dr. Christopher K.R.T. Jones
Thesis: The geometry of radial states in nonlinear elliptic problems
2009, B.S. in Mathematics/B.A. in French (with highest distinction), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

My education included a full year at Université de Montpellier III in France, and a semester in Kenya and Tanzania. I also spent a summer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as a Geophysical Fluid Dynamics fellow. Recently I spent a semester in Cambridge, UK.

I'm always happy to talk to students interested in Study Abroad.

Honors/Awards

Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor Award, NC State University (2026)
Outstanding Teacher Award, NC State University (2024)
DELTA Faculty Fellow, NC State University (2021-2022, 2022-2023)
Thank a Teacher Award, NC State University (2021, 2022)
John Franke Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, NC State University Department of Mathematics (2021)
Certificate of Reflective Teaching, NC State University (2020)
The Linker Award for excellence in teaching by a graduate student, UNC-Chapel Hill (2014)
WHOI Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (2012)
The Alfred Brauer Award for Algebra and Number Theory, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Mathematics (2009)
Chancellor’s Award (Jacques Hardré Prize), UNC-Chapel Hill (2009)

Full CV

Teaching

Courses at NC State

Undergraduate

MA 116: Introduction to Scientific Programming (MATLAB)
MA 241: Single Variable Calculus II | Course Video Playlist
MA 242: Multivariable Calculus | Course Video Playlist
MA 305: Introductory Linear Algebra and Matrices
MA 341: Applied Differential Equations I | Laplace Transforms Playlist
MA 425: Mathematical Analysis I
MA 426: Mathematical Analysis II | Course Video Playlist

Graduate

MA 501: Advanced Mathematics for Engineers & Scientists I (PDEs)
MA 507: Survey of Real Analysis
MA 510: Selected Topics In Mathematics For Secondary Teachers (Modeling)
MA 511: Advanced Calculus I
MA 523: Linear Transformations and Matrix Theory

Previous Teaching

As a postdoctoral fellow at UMN: Calculus I, Calculus III, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations with Applications
As a graduate instructor at UNC (all courses listed are as primary instructor of record, not as a TA): College Algebra, Selected Topics in Mathematics, Calculus I, Calculus II, Multivariable Calculus III, Advanced Calculus/Real Analysis
Duke University TIP: Topology

Publications

B. Maultsby, Primitive Recursion and the Disappearing Guests, American Mathematical Society (AMS) Feature Column, May 2025. Link
B. Maultsby, Settling a Tomoe-sen: Wresting with chip firing, MAA Math Horizons, 31(1), September 2023. DOI: 10.1080/10724117.2023.2224671.
C.K.R.T. Jones and B. Maultsby, A dynamical approach to phytoplankton blooms, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 37(2): 859-878, November 2016. DOI: 10.3934/dcds.2017035
B. Maultsby, Uniqueness of solutions to singular $p$ -Laplacian equations with subcritical nonlinearity, Advances in Nonlinear Analysis, 6.1 (2016): 37-59. DOI: 10.1515/anona-2015-0161
The Geometry of Radial States in Nonlinear Elliptic Problems, Ph.D. Thesis (2014).
B. Maultsby, 2:1 spatial resonance in Langmuir circulation, Proceedings of the 2012 Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (2012), 334-361.

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