Natalie Cartwright

Dr. Cartwright is an applied mathematician who enjoys thinking about and discussing all types of mathematics. She teaches a wide range of courses with Calculus II, Complex Analysis, and Applied Linear Algebra being her favorites. Mathematics is beautiful in its patterns and logic, and she enjoys helping students see that beauty. Before coming to Norwich University, Dr. Cartwright's research was predominantly in the area of electromagnetic pulse propagation through dispersive material. Her work was funded for more than 10 years by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research as analytic understanding of electromagnetic signals through dispersive material is highly relevant to radar applications.

Dr. Cartwright switched her research area to applications of machine learning before arriving at Norwich in Fall 2019. Currently, she studies health outcomes using machine learning. An important component of creating machine learning models in healthcare is to analyze the fairness of models and to incorporate stakeholders in the process of model development and analysis. She is currently the principal investigator on a 2-year $1.26 million NIH Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) Consortium Development Project. The project - AA-CONVENE (Aim Ahead - impaCt Of guN Violence Exposure oN hEalth) - is using electronic health records to study health outcomes after primary and secondary exposure to gun violence.

Dr. Cartwright works closely with many undergraduate students on independent research projects and encourages highly motivated students to reach out to her. Student research projects typically result in a presentation (oral or poster) at a regional conference or at the Norwich University Celebration of Excellence. 
 

Ph.D. University of Vermont, Mathematics

M.S. University of Vermont, Mathematics

B.S. University of Vermont, Business Administration

MA 122 Calculus II
MA 224 Differential Equations
MA 405 Complex Analysis

Expanding Study of Firearm Injury: Early Results of an Initiative to Assess Exposure to Firearm Violence in Ambulatory Care, submitted to Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Public Health and Surveillance (2023).

Precursors for synthetic aperture radar, with K. Muller, Inverse Problems, 39, no. 6 (2023) 064003, doi: 0.1088/1361-6420/accc50.

Determining elliptical polarization of light from rotation of calcite crystals, with C.A. Herne and M. T. Cattani, Optics Express, 25, no. 9 (2017) 10044 – 10050.