Here are my
papers,
talk slides, and
CV. This work
is supported by NSF grant DMS-1200730.
Research interests: combinatorics, particularly as it relates to fields like
topology, commutative algebra, representation theory and theoretical
computer science.
I'm especially interested in
combinatorial methods for studying topological structure, often with
algebraic applications in mind.
Ph.D.
students: Ruth Davidson, a fourth year Ph.D. student at NCSU (with coadvisor
Seth Sullivant).
Rebecca Swanson, Indiana
University-Bloomington 2010 Ph.D., now a teaching associate professor at Colorado School of Mines.
Daniel Jordan also did some research with me at Indiana, though Michael Larsen was his Ph.D. advisor there.
Math 724 -- Graduate (Geometric and Topological) Combinatorics (spring 2013, Tues/Thurs, 1:30-2:45pm in SAS 1218) -- second half of a year-long prelim course.
Next year:
Math 551 -- Graduate Topology (fall 2013, Mon/Wed/Fri, 12:25-1:15pm in Daniels 216) -- first half of a year-long prelim course. Textbook: Topology by James Munkres.
Math 753 -- Graduate Algebraic Topology (spring 2014) -- second half of a year-long prelim course. Textbook: Algebraic Topology by Allen Hatcher.
Triangle Lectures in
Combinatorics (TLC), series of combinatorial workshops. Next meeting
is February 9, 2013 at Wake Forest University with speakers: Louis Billera, Rod Canfield, Matthew Kahle and Michelle Wachs.
I serve on the TLC Steering Committee with
Nathan Reading (NCSU),
Ezra Miller (Duke),
and Scott Provan (UNC Chapel
Hill).
70th birthday conference for Richard Stanley at MIT (Cambridge, MA), final week of June in 2014. Coorganized with Karen Collins, Caroline Klivans, and Alex Postnikov.
AMS Committee on the Profession panel discussion on "Getting Started as a Research Mathematician", held at the Joint Math Meetings, San Diego, CA, January 9-12, 2013.
AWM Schafer minisymposium in memory of
Alice T. Schafer,
AMS/MAA/SIAM/AWM joint meetings,
New Orleans, Jan. 6-9, 2011. Five talks and a panel discussion on ``Getting Started as a Research Mathematician'', by
Schafer prize winners. Coorganized with
Sami Assaf (MIT) and
Cheryl Grood (Swarthmore).