Amanda Priestley

Hi! My name is Amanda and I'm a Ph.D. Student at UT Austin where I'm affiliated with the Theory Group. I like probability theory, combinatorics, and combinatorially motivated problems in probability.

Amanda

Contact Info:

Email: amandapriestley [at] utexas [dot] edu
Desk: GDC 4.408B



Publications/Preprints

A Probabilistic Parking Process and Labeled IDLA with Pamela E. Harris, Thiago Holleben, J. Carlos Martínez Mori, J. Carlos Martínez Mori, Keith Sullivan, and Per Wagenius.
ArXiv Preprint.

The \(S_k\) Shuffle Block Dynamics with Evita Nestoridi and Dominik Schmid
ALEA, Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 21, 1547–1566 (2024).



Conferences and Workshops

Here is a list of places you might have seen me.


Teaching

Spring 2025--Graduate Teaching Assistant CS 311 Discrete Mathematics

Fall 2024--Graduate Teaching Assistant CS 311 Discrete Mathematics

Fall 2023--Graduate Teaching Assistant CS 311 Discrete Mathematics

Fall 2022--Graduate Teaching Assistant CS 331 Algorithms and Complexity

Fall 2019--Undergraduate Teaching Assistant CS 331 Algorithms and Complexity



Personal Interests

I love listening to music of almost any genre. My favorites are probably postpunk, metal, jazz, shoegaze, and techno/EBM (or any combination of these). But I don't like country or reggae. A long while ago I used to draw and paint quite a lot, and I was also a ballet dancer in my past life. (I still love to take class whenever I have the time.) Recently, I've also been trying out rhythmic gymnastics and contortion.