Katharine A. Ott

Professor of Mathematics

Associations

Mathematics

Hathorn Hall, Room 214

About

Katharine Ott joined Bates College in 2014. She graduated from Middlebury College in 2003 and completed her Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Virginia in 2008. Katy spent three years as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and an additional three years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky before returning to Maine (she grew up in Cumberland, ME).

Katy’s research interests lie in the area of intersection of Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations. She is also engaged in promoting mathematics to a diverse audience through writing aimed at the general public and outreach activities.

At Bates, Katy teaches courses across the math curriculum including Calculus, Linear Algebra, Real Analysis, Mathematics for Social Justice, and senior seminars on Mathematical Exposition and Series.

Expertise

Current Courses

Winter Semester 2025

EXDS 116
Bates STEM Scholars

MATH 308
Complex Analysis

MATH 458
Senior Thesis

Short Term 2025

DCSS 45T / MATHS 45T
Mathematical Image Processing

Fall Semester 2025

MATH 205
Linear Algebra

MATH 206
Multivariable Calculus

MATH 219
Differential Equations

MATH 221
Introduction to Abstraction

MATH 233
Mathematics for Social Justice

MATH 301
Real Analysis

MATH 457
Senior Thesis

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