About
I am a fourth-year graduate student at Dartmouth College in the math department. My advisors are Feng Fu and Daryl DeFord. Before Dartmouth, I graduated with a BA in Mathematics and Physics from Bowdoin College in 2022 where I was advised by Adam Levy and Dale Syphers.
I am interested in solving problems in the social and political sciences with mathematics and data science, which has led me to analysis of random and spreading processes on networks, as well as graph partitioning problems that pertain to political redistricting.
In my free time I enjoy skiing, cooking, and spending time with friends.
Research
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The Marked Edge Walk: A Novel MCMC Algorithm for Sampling of Graph Partitions
Atticus McWhorter and Daryl DeFord
in preparation
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Free Elections in the Free State: Ensemble Analysis of Redistricting in New Hampshire
Atticus McWhorter and Daryl DeFord
arXiv:2509.07328
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Reinforcement Learning Dynamics of Network Vaccination and Hysteresis: A Double-Edged Sword for Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy
Atticus McWhorter and Feng Fu
arXiv:2504.07254
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Heterogeneous Preferences and Personality in Adaptive Network Models
Olivia J. Chu, Atticus W. McWhorter, and Louis Fan
manuscript available soon
Teaching
Math 36 Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences, Spring 2026, Instructor
Math 10 Introductory Statistics, Spring 2025, Instructor
Math 11 Accelerated Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2024, TA
Math 13 Calculus of Vector-Valued Functions, Spring 2024, TA
Math 9 Multivariable Differential Calculus with Linear Algebra, Fall 2023, TA
Math 22 Linear Algebra with Applications, Spring 2023, TA
Math 1 Introduction to Calculus, Fall 2022, TA
Talks
The Marked Edge Walk invited
2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings, AMS Special Session on The Mathematics of Elections and Redistricting
Free Elections in the Free State invited
2024 SIAM Annual Meeting, Mathematical and Computational Redistricting: Algorithms and Analysis
Q-Learning Dynamics in Vaccination contributed
Seventh Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems
Research Computing Methods in Python and Julia contributed
Fu Lab talk series