Harvard has the best looking Math TF of any college

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<p>She's a math superstar, graduated from Harvard in 2006 with highest honors and will have her PhD in math from Harvard very shortly - Corina E. Tarniţă</p>

<p>Corina</a> Tarnita</p>

<p>Corina's</a> web page</p>

<p>She was a TF (Teaching Fellow - grad student assistant to the professor) in one of my son's math classes. I think she made it easier for him to drag his lazy butt out of bed in the morning and get to class on time.</p>

<p>So...................who now wants to be a math concentrator (Harvard-speak for "major")?</p>

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<li><p>Wow. Cutest math whiz since Gwyneth Paltrow in Proof.</p></li>
<li><p>Her ex-husband and former research collaborator seems to have beaten her to a PhD by a year.</p></li>
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<p>Well I think we all know why she did so well in her classes HAHAHA.</p>

<p>…brilliant <em>and</em> beautiful i hate her so much</p>

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<p>^^ the perfect girl. I hope to go to Harvard for math grad school now over pton mainly because of her.</p>

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<p>insert joke here about being tangent to her curves, etc.</p>

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<p>lmao^
if she were sin^2 x and I were cos^2 x…</p>

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<p>…then you subtract her from yourself and get cos 2x?</p>

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<p>10 char lol.</p>

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<p>and then your graphing calculator dies on you because it can’t handle any more trigonometric functions.</p>

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<p>My friends at HS say that math whiz girls are not beautiful, so I just game them the link to this particular post.</p>

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<p>She’s not that cute. She has painted eyebrows.</p>

<p>Everyone knows all the hot chicks are in the English department ;)</p>

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<p>^beware of the drama nerds/ stage crew orcs… they like to hide in the English dept.</p>

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<p>^ True statement.</p>

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<p>i’m assuming all of the posters on this thread are guys…</p>

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<p>Corina Tarniţă’s beauty certain gets you to notice her but has anyone read her accomplishments? Wow!!!</p>

<p>Education
[PhD] Harvard University, Mathematics, expected june 2009. Advisor: Martin Nowak. </p>

<p>[M.A.] Harvard University, M.A. in Mathematics, june 2008. Thesis: The Minimal Model Program. Advisors: Izzet Coskun and Joe Harris.</p>

<p>[B.A.] Harvard University, B.A. awarded Magna cum Laudae (High Honors) with Highest Honors in Mathematics. Senior Thesis: The Debarred-de Jong Conjecture for Fano Varieties of Lines on Hypersurfaces. Advisor: Joe Harris.</p>

<p>[High school] C.N. Carol I, Craiova, Romania. School merit scholarship for outstanding academic achievement, 1998–2002. Valedictorian.</p>

<p>Awards
[2006] Highest Honors in Mathematics awarded by the Harvard Department of Mathematics;</p>

<p>[2006] Magna cum Laudae (High Honors) awarded by Harvard University;</p>

<p>[2006] 2nd prize of the Friends of Mathematics Lecture Honoraria;</p>

<p>[2005] Harvard Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement;</p>

<p>[2005] Best Student Paper Award for the paper “On Dynamic Bit-Probe Complexity” at the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP’05);</p>

<p>[2004] Robert Fletcher Rogers 1st Prize, awarded by the Harvard Mathematics Department for the talk ``Computing Order Statistics in the Farey Sequence’';

[2000] 1st place individual, 1st place teams, International Mathematical Contest ``Gheorghe Titeica'';</p>

<p>[2001, 2000, 1999] 1st prize, Romanian National Mathematical Olympiad;</p>

<p>[2001, 2000, 1999] Award for Excellence of the Romanian Mathematical Society (SSMR);</p>

<p>[1996–2002] 1st, 2nd or 3rd prize in national and regional Romanian competitions (Mathematics, Physics, English)</p>

<h2>[2002] Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English, grade A; Cambridge University, UK;</h2>

<p>I think Harvard attracts the highest number of International Math Olympiams of any college. Math is one of the “elite” majors at Harvard. I wonder is she took the infamous freshman math course - Math 55? It’s described as the hardest math course in the world. When my son encounters a kid who took & survived Math 55 he’ll mention it to me with some awe “Dad, I met a 55’er today”. Lisa Randall, the Harvard physics professor who some say is the next Steven Hawkings, took Math 55 as a Harvard freshman. Wiki her - also another impressive Harvard female.</p>

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<p>She is obviously very smart.</p>

<p>As for her pictures that are the cause of this thread being begun, they are nice but not the level you are making them out to be. What I am able to conclude from the two pictures is that Corina is striking. Tell how “pretty” she is is actually hard to tell from the photos. They are basically the identical pose (same angle, hair over one one side of face) but in different settings. Her appearance would be more clear to me if the photos had less in common and therefore disclosed more about her. Also, there similarity makes me wonder if that is “her good angle”. I have been around teenage girls enough to know how if you take enough pictures you can get a "good’ or a “bad” picture regardless of the subject.</p>

<p>What I believe you are all responding to is 1) her photos are striking 2) she does not fit what you are expecting a typical smart woman to look like.</p>

<p>Had this thread not been started and I came across her profile, my thoughts would have simply been “nice photo” and “impressive accomplishments”.</p>

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<p>Very cool :)</p>

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<p>i don’t see what all the fuss is about. i mean she’s attractive, but that’s as far as i’d go in that regard. have none of ya’ll been around attractive (or step it up to hot) girls before? for your sake i hope that’s not the case lol. now, on the other hand, she’s obviously very impressive academically</p>

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<p>not exactly what we Romanians would call a striking beauty… sorry… very impressive academic achievements, though!It so happens that I’ll participate in the National Sociology Olympiad in Craiova next month! plus, my mom finished both high school and college in that city.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.math.harvard.edu/peoplephotos/grad/s_corinatarnita.jpg[/url]”>http://www.math.harvard.edu/peoplephotos/grad/s_corinatarnita.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Answer: No.</p>

<p>But it’s silly to discuss anyway. Obviously she’s really talented and has a bright future in academia.</p>