Publications — Chad M. Topaz

102. C.M. Topaz, D.B. Johnson. The structure of firearm licensing variation in the United States, submitted (2026). LINK

101. *A. Bhaskar, *K. Chang, *I. Najib, *O. Thornton, *J. Tucher, R. Schwartz, C.M. Topaz. Sufficiency in teacher-student race matching, submitted (2026). LINK

100. *O. Teva, *K. LaMothe, *J. Li, *D. Wang, R. Schwartz, C.M. Topaz. Admissions priorities and campus diversity: Insights from the Common Data Set, submitted (2026). LINK

99. C.M. Topaz, O. Babasola, R. Buckmire, D. Gao, M. Hallare, O. Iyiola, D. Needell, A.R. Vindas-Meléndez. A dynamical model of the U.S. mathematics graduate degree pipeline, submitted (2026). LINK

98. C.M. Topaz. Reliable topology for dynamic data: Mathematical foundations and applications, submitted (2026). LINK

97. C.M. Topaz, *F. Huang, *M.C. Singh, *S. Sousa, R. Schwartz, Z. Stanley. Arrested but not prosecuted: Racial disparities, geographic variation, and statistical evidence under California's Racial Justice Act, submitted (2026). LINK

96. O. Babasola, O. Adeyemi, R. Buckmire, D. Gao, M. Hallare, O. Iyiola, D. Needell, C.M. Topaz, A.R. Vindas-Meléndez. A discrete–time model of the academic pipeline in mathematical sciences with constrained hiring in the United States, submitted (2026). LINK

95. C.M. Topaz, *B. Cobb, *F. Lu, *A. Smith, *N. Zekarias. The retreat from DEI: Language change on large U.S. foundation websites, 2019–2025, submitted (2026). LINK

94. C.M. Topaz. Inefficiency and inequity of the law review submission system, submitted (2026). LINK

93. A. Lenti, C.M. Topaz. Voice part and vocal identity in choral singing, submitted (2026).

92. C.M. Topaz, *A. Kurongonayini, *B. Ptak, *A. Fluehr, A. Mendible, R. Roca, N. Rodríguez, L. Xian, R. Schwartz, J. Higdon. The geography of Nobel Prize selection, submitted (2026). LINK

91. C.M. Topaz, G. Jae, J. Higdon. News media coverage of gun violence: A scoping review, submitted (2025). LINK

90. C.M. Topaz. How conflict aversion can enable authoritarianism: An evolutionary dynamics approach, submitted (2025). LINK

89. D.B. Johnson, C.M. Topaz. Concealed-carry permits and firearm sales are low dimensional, submitted (2025). LINK

88. C. Thomas, K. Durante, C.M. Topaz, M.-V. Ciocanel, Z. Stanley. Presidential appointments, sentencing discretion, and ethnoracial disparities in U.S. federal courts, submitted (2025). LINK

87. C.M. Topaz. The faculty merit act is meritless. Inside Higher Education (2026). LINK

86. C.M. Topaz, Intergenerational equity should not justify intragenerational inequity, Williams Record (2026). LINK

85. C.M. Topaz. What's missing from Healey's court picks? Boston Globe (2026). LINK

84. C.M. Topaz. Unlocking Justice, Princeton University Press, forthcoming (2026). LINK

83. C.M. Topaz, T. Bass. Who's invisible in the data, Inside Higher Ed (2025). LINK

82. C.M. Topaz. A structured dataset of the Federalist Society’s public engagements, F1000 Research 14 (2025). LINK

81. Z.C. Stanley, C.M. Topaz. Using data science for social good: Mapping opportunity youth, Math Horizons 32 (4) (2025). LINK

80. C.M. Topaz. Test-optional admissions still expand access, Williams Record (2025). LINK

79. *J. Bliven, *A. Johnson, Z.C. Stanley, C.M. Topaz, A. Chalfin, J.A. Higdon, T. Bass. Quantifying fair chance policy implementation and employer engagement, The Prison Journal (105) (2025). LINK

78. P. Cohen, J. French, S. Jacobson, C.M. Topaz. What faculty must do to stop hate at the college, Williams Record (2025). LINK

77. C.M. Topaz, J. Higdon. Language panics are a distraction... or worse, Philadelphia Inquirer (2025). LINK

76. C.M. Topaz, O. Oren. Judicial professional background and pretrial detention outcomes, Journal of Law and Courts (2025, published online). LINK

75. E.M. Sanford, C.M. Topaz, J. Halberda. Modeling magnitude discrimination: effects of internal precision and attentional weighting of feature dimensions, Cog. Sci. 48 (2) (2024). LINK

74. C.M. Topaz, J.A. Higdon. News media coverage of gun violence: A systematic review, report of QSIDE Institute (2024). LINK

73. G. Gharooni-Fard, M. Byers, V. Deshmukh, E. Bradley, *C. Mayo, C.M. Topaz, O. Peleg. A computational topology-based spatiotemporal analysis technique for honeybee aggregation, NPJ Complexity 1 (1) (2024). LINK

72. D. White, N. Rodríguez, C.M. Topaz. Cooperation can end violent protests, New York Daily News (2024). LINK

71. *U. Bahl, C.M. Topaz, *L. Obermüller, *S. Goldstein, *M. Sneirson. Algorithms in judges' hands: Incarceration and inequity in Broward County, Florida, UCLA Law Rev. (2024). LINK

70. D. White, N. Rodríguez, C.M. Topaz, T. Kighuradzae. Police must refrain from escalating violence, JAM News (2024). LINK

69. D. White, C.M. Topaz. Will Milwaukee police fuel violence at Republican National Convention protests, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2024). LINK

68. D. White, C.M. Topaz, N. Rodríguez. Foster negotiation between police and protestors for a peaceful DNC, Chicago Tribune (2024). LINK

67. C.M. Topaz, *B. Garcia Nueva, *P. Izidro de Souza, *J. Schumann, *L. Shvedova, X. Cai, S. Ning. Race and Superfund site remediation, PNAS Nexus 3 (9) (2024). LINK

66. C.M. Topaz, H.Z. Brooks, U. Kan, B. Sandstede, C.M. Smith. Diversity, identity, and data, Am. Math. Month. 132 (1) (2024). LINK

65. C.M. Topaz, N. Brown. Most college science professors aren't trained to teach, Undark Magazine (2024). LINK

64. N. Goldrosen, C.M. Smith, M.-V. Ciocanel, R. Santorella, S. Sen, S. Bushway, C.M. Topaz. Racial disparities in criminal sentencing vary considerably across federal judges, J. Inst. Theor. Econ. 179 (1) (2023). LINK

63. O. Oren, C.M. Topaz, C. Oliva. Cost of Discretion: Judicial Decision-Making, Pretrial Detention, and Public Safety in New York City, report of Scrutinize, Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity, and the Zimroth Center on the Administration of Criminal Law (2023). LINK

62. O. Oren, C.M. Topaz. Study of judges reveals costs of pretrial detention, Albany Times Union (2023). LINK

61. C. FitzGerald, Y. Huang, K. Plaisier Leisman, C.M. Topaz. Temporal dynamics of faculty hiring in mathematics, Nature Hum. Soc. Sci. Comm. 10 (2023). LINK

60. C.M. Topaz, S. Ning, M.-V. Ciocanel, S. Bushway. Federal criminal sentencing: race-based disparate impact and differential treatment in judicial districts, Nature Hum. Soc. Sci. Comm. 10 (366) (2023). LINK

59. O. Oren, C.M. Topaz, C.M. Oliva. Studying Judicial Decision-Making is not Intimidation, New York Law J. (2023). LINK

58. C.M. Topaz. WVU’s Cuts: A threat to digital age justice, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education (2023). LINK

57. M.-V. Ciocanel, N. Goldrosen, C.M. Topaz. Quantifying federal sentencing disparities with inferred sentencing records. SIAM News Research (2023). LINK

56. J. Higdon, C.M. Topaz. What happened when Rikers let out hundreds? Follow the facts. New York Daily News (2022). LINK

55. *E. Miller, B.D. Martin, C.M. Topaz. New York City jails: COVID discharge policy, data transparency, and reform, PLOS One 17 (1) (2022). LINK

54. N. Hatfield, N. Brown, C.M. Smith, C.M. Topaz. Differential impacts on NSTEM graduation: Exploring a multi-institutional database, Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (2022). LINK

53. *L. Xian, H. Adams, C.M. Topaz, L. Ziegelmeier. Capturing dynamics of time-varying data via topology, Found. Data Sci. (2022). LINK

52. T. DeGiovanni, W. Hamilton, R. Hardenbrook, J. Higdon, O. Koppe, K. Patel, C.M. Topaz. Datathons4Justice address social justice issues with data science, SIAM News (2022). LINK

51. C.M. Topaz, J. Higdon, A. Epps-Darling, *E. Siau, H. Kerkhoff, *S. Mendiratta, E. Young. Race- and gender-based under-representation of creative contributors: art, fashion, film, and music, Nature Hum. Soc. Sci. 9 (221) (2022). LINK

50. N. Brown, N. Hatfield, C.M. Topaz. Do introductory courses disproportionately drive minoritized students out of STEM pathways, PNAS Nexus 1 (4) (2022). LINK

49. N. Brown, C.M. Topaz. How STEM faculty can fight institutional racism and sexism, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education (2022). LINK

48. M. Feng, A. Hickok, Y.H. Kureh, M.A. Porter, C.M. Topaz. Connecting the dots: Discovering the shape of data, Front. Young Minds 9 (2021). LINK

47. J. Crodelle, C. Vallejo, M. Schmidtchen, C.M. Topaz, M.R. D’Orsogna. Impacts of California Proposition 47 on crime in Santa Monica, CA, PLOS One 16 (5) (2021). LINK

46. *D. Maes, *J. Tucher, C.M. Topaz. Affirmative action, critical mass, and a predictive model of undergraduate student body demographics, PLOS One 16 (5) (2021). LINK

45. C.M. Topaz. An ill-advised linear algebra tutorial, self-published (2021). LINK

44. V. Deshmukh, G.G. Fard, E. Bradley, C.M. Topaz, O. Peleg. A persistent homology approach to characterize honeybee behavior during food exchange, SIAM News Research (2021). LINK

43. H. Adams, M.-V. Ciocanel, C.M. Topaz, L. Ziegelmeier. Topological data analysis of collective motion, SIAM News 53 (1) (2020). LINK

42. C.M. Topaz, M.-V. Ciocanel, P. Cohen, M. Ott, N. Rodríguez. Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity, Notices AMS 67 (2) (2020). LINK

41. J.K. Castelino, D.J. Ratliff, A.M. Rucklidge, P. Subramanian, C.M. Topaz. Spatiotemporal chaos and quasipatterns in coupled reaction-diffusion systems, Physica D (409) (2020). LINK

40. C.M. Topaz, J. Cart, C. Diaz Eaton, A. Hanson Shrout, J.A. Higdon, K. Ince, B. Katz, D. Lewis, J. Libertini, C.M. Smith. Demographic study of signatories to public letters on diversity in the mathematical sciences, PLOS One 15 (4) (2020). LINK

39. *M.R. Knoedler, *J.C. Kostas, *C.M. Hogan, *H. Kerkhoff, C.M. Topaz. An unpublished manuscript of John von Neumann on shock waves in boostered detonations, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 74 (6) (2020). LINK

38. M.-V. Ciocanel, C.M. Topaz, R. Santorella, S. Sen, C.M. Smith, *A. Hufstetler. JUSTFAIR: Judicial System Transparency through Federal Archive Inferred Records, PLOS One 15 (10) (2020). LINK

37. B.C. Heggeseth, C.M. Topaz. When data meets diversity, SIAM News 53 (10) (2020). LINK

36. C.M. Topaz. Your next mathematics research project, Math Horizons 26 (3) (2019). LINK

35. C.M. Topaz, S. Sen. Gender disparities on mathematical sciences editorial boards, Assoc. Women Sci. Mag. 51 (1) (2019). LINK

34. L. Chen, R. Kasman, J. Rana, C.M. Topaz. Interested in applying to a liberal arts institution, Notices AMS 66 (6) (2019). LINK

33. *M. Ulmer, L. Ziegelmeier, C.M. Topaz. A topological approach to selecting models of biological experiments, PLOS One 14 (3) (2019). LINK

32. C.M. Topaz, B. Klingenberg, D. Turek, B. Heggeseth, P. Harris, J. C. Blackwood, C. Ondine Chavoya, S. Nelson, K. M. Murphy. Diversity of artists in major U.S. museums, PLOS One 14 (3) (2019). LINK

31. M.J. Panaggio, M.-V. Ciocanel, L. Lazarus, C.M. Topaz, B. Xu. Model reconstruction from temporal data for coupled oscillator networks, Chaos 29 (10) (2019). LINK

30. D. Bhaskar, A. Manhart, J. Milzman, J.T. Nardini, K. Storey, C.M. Topaz, L. Ziegelmeier. Analyzing collective motion with machine learning and topology, Chaos 29 (12) (2019). LINK

29. C.M. Topaz, M. Mei. Guide to lit searching for the disinclined, AMS E-Mentoring Blog (2017). LINK

28. C.M. Topaz, J.A. Higdon. Six ways to upend the focus on good grades, MAA Teaching Tidbits (2017). LINK

27. C.M. Topaz. Topological data analysis: One applied mathematician’s heartwarming story of struggle, triumph, and ultimately, more struggle, SIAM Dynamical Systems Web (2016). Most-read article of all time for this web magazine. LINK

26. C.M. Topaz, S. Sen. Gender representation on journal editorial boards in the mathematical sciences, PLOS One 11 (8) (2016). LINK

25. A.J. Bernoff, C.M. Topaz. Nonlocal aggregation models, local approximation, and the degenerate Cahn-Hilliard equation, SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Sys. 15 (3) (2016). LINK

24. C.M. Topaz. Self-help homology tutorial for the simple(x)-minded, self-published online (2015). LINK

23. C.M. Topaz, L. Ziegelmeier, T. Halverson. Topological data analysis of biological aggregation models, PLOS One 10 (5) (2015). LINK

22. L. Ziegelmeier, C.M. Topaz. Flipped calculus: A study of student performance and perceptions, PRIMUS 29 (9 – 10) (2015). Second most-read article of all time for this journal. LINK

21. C.M. Topaz. Research: It doesn’t take a genius, SIAM News Blog (2014). LINK

20. E. Sander, C.M. Topaz, Epidemics in the presence of social attraction and repulsion, in Mathematical Modeling of Zombies (2014), University of Ottawa Press. LINK

19. A.J. Bernoff, C.M. Topaz. Nonlocal aggregation equations, SIAM Rev. 55 (4) (2013). SIGEST Selection Paper. LINK

18. *C. Nilsen, *J. Paige, *O. Warner, *B. Mayhew, *R. Sutley, *M. Lam, A. Bernoff, C.M. Topaz. Social aggregation in pea aphids: Experiment and random walk modeling, PLOS One 8 (12) (2013). LINK

17. A.J. Catlla , *A. McNamara, C.M. Topaz. Instabilities and patterns in coupled reaction-diffusion layers, Phys. Rev. E 85 (2) (2012). LINK

16. C.M. Topaz, M.R. D’Orsogna, L. Edelstein-Keshet, A.J. Bernoff. Locust dynamics: Behavioral phase change and swarming, PLOS Comp. Biol. 8 (8) (2012). LINK

15. A.J. Bernoff, C.M. Topaz. A primer of swarm equilibria, SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Sys. 10 (1) (2011). “Highly Cited Paper”, receiving enough citations to place it in the top 1% of its academic field according to Essential Science Indicators. Winner of a 2013 SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize, given to three papers selected from the pool of all SIAM journals over the prior three years. LINK

14. C.M. Topaz, A.J. Catlla. Forced patterns near a Turing-Hopf bifurcation, Phys. Rev. E 81 (2) (2010). LINK

13. J.A. Higdon, C.M. Topaz. Blogs and wikis as instructional tools: A social software adaptation of just-in-time teaching, College Teaching 59 (2) (2009). LINK

12. *A.J. Leverentz, C.M. Topaz, A.J. Bernoff. Asymptotic dynamics of attractive-repulsive swarms, SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Sys. 8 (3) (2009). LINK

11. C.M. Topaz. Review of “Continuum modeling in the physical sciences” by van Groesen and Molenaar, Biometrics 64 (2008). LINK

10. C.M. Topaz, A.J. Bernoff, *S. Logan, *W. Toolson. A model for rolling swarms of locusts, Euro. Phys. J. ST 157 (1) (2008). LINK

9. R. Breban, I. McGowan, C.M. Topaz, E. Schwartz, P. Anton, S. Blower. Modeling the potential impact of rectal microbicides to reduce HIV transmission in bathhouses. Math. Biosci. Engin. 3 (3) (2006). LINK

8. C.M. Topaz, A.L. Bertozzi, M.A. Lewis. A nonlocal continuum model for biological aggregation, Bull. Math Bio. 68 (7) (2006). “Highly Cited Paper,” receiving enough citations to place it in the top 1% of its academic field according to Essential Science Indicators. LINK

7. C.M. Topaz, A.L. Bertozzi. Swarming patterns in a two-dimensional kinematic model for biological groups, SIAM J. Appl. Math 65 (1) (2004). LINK

6. J. Porter, C.M. Topaz, M. Silber. Pattern control via multi-frequency parametric forcing, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (3) (2004). LINK

5. C.M. Topaz, J. Porter, M. Silber. Multi-frequency control of Faraday wave patterns, Phys. Rev. E 70 (6) (2004). LINK

4. *B. Cook, D. Marthaler, C.M. Topaz, A.L. Bertozzi, M. Kemp. Fractional bandwidth reacquisition algorithms for VSW-MCM, in A.C. Schultz, et al. (Eds.), Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Vol. 2, (2003). LINK

3. C.M. Topaz. Pattern formation in two-frequency forced Faraday waves, Ph.D. dissertation (2002). LINK

2. C.M. Topaz, M. Silber. Resonances and superlattice pattern stabilization in two-frequency forced Faraday waves, Physica D 172 (1 – 4) (2002). LINK

1. M. Silber, C.M. Topaz, A.C. Skeldon. Two-frequency forced Faraday waves: Weakly damped modes and pattern selection, Physica D 143 (1 – 4) (2000). LINK