Bevin Maultsby

Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor
Teaching Professor of Mathematics, NC State University

About

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

I am broadly interested in the scholarship of teaching and learning. My interests include online teaching and course creation, course design, alternative assessment approaches such as mastery-based and standards-based grading, inquiry-based learning, accessibility, and the use of generative AI in teaching and research. My mathematical background is in geometric dynamical systems, with current work on uniqueness problems for singular p-Laplacian equations on annular domains.

I am a 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.

I also post mathematics lectures and other videos on my YouTube channel. Some are used in my courses; others are simply things I wanted to make.

Statement on AI usage in my courses

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Bio

Positions

  • 2025–present, Teaching Professor, Department of Mathematics, NC State University
  • 2020–2025, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Mathematics, NC State University
  • 2016–2020, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Mathematics, NC State University
  • 2014–2016, MathCEP Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

Additional educational work has included the Duke University Talent Identification Program and the University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program.

Education

  • 2014, Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Advisor: Christopher K.R.T. Jones. Dissertation: The Geometry of Radial States in Nonlinear Elliptic Problems.
  • 2009, B.S. in Mathematics and B.A. in French and Francophone Studies, with highest distinction, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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

I am always happy to talk with students interested in Study Abroad.

Selected Honors and Awards

  • Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor Award, NC State University, 2026
  • Outstanding Teacher Award, NC State University, 2024
  • DELTA Faculty Fellow, NC State University, 2021–2023
  • John Franke Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, NC State Department of Mathematics, 2021
  • Certificate of Reflective Teaching, NC State University, 2020
  • Linker Award for Excellence in Teaching, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2014
  • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2012
  • Alfred Brauer Award and Jacques Hardré Prize, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2009

Teaching

At NC State I teach across the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, including calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, real analysis, mathematical modeling, complex variables, and scientific programming.

Selected Course Materials

My full teaching history, including prior teaching at Minnesota, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Duke TIP, is listed in my full CV.

Selected Publications

  • B. Maultsby. Geometric uniqueness of positive radial solutions for singular p-Laplacian equations on annuli. Submitted.
  • B. Maultsby. Primitive Recursion and the Disappearing Guests. American Mathematical Society Feature Column, May 2025. Article
  • B. Maultsby. Settling a Tomoe-sen: Wrestling with Chip Firing. Math Horizons 31(1), 2023. DOI
  • C.K.R.T. Jones and B. Maultsby. A dynamical approach to phytoplankton blooms. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems 37(2), 859–878, 2017. DOI
  • B. Maultsby. Uniqueness of solutions to singular p-Laplacian equations with subcritical nonlinearity. Advances in Nonlinear Analysis 6(1), 37–59, 2017. DOI
  • B. Maultsby. The Geometry of Radial States in Nonlinear Elliptic Problems. Ph.D. thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014.

Full publications, talks, service, and professional activity