Educational Activities
Ducks hiding in library during Math 458 Cryptography Scavenger Hunt in 2016
Research students and postdocs:
- Maria Fox will be a Paul Olum Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Oregon, beginning in Fall 2019. Her research focuses on arithmetic geometry.
- Jon Aycock is currently my PhD student, studying modular forms. He previously received summer support from my NSF CAREER grant DMS-1751281. Fun fact: As an undergraduate at UNC, he was a student in my linear algebra and abstract algebra courses.
- Catherine Hsu completed her PhD (U. Oregon 2018) and MS (UNC 2015) in algebraic number theory under my supervision. She received generous fellowship support, including the AAUW's American Dissertation Fellowship and the University of Oregon's Doctoral Research Fellowship. In 2018, she won Oregon's Jack and Peggy Borsting Award for Scholastic Achievement in Graduate Mathematics, awarded to a finishing graduate student based on outstanding academic work. She is now a Heilbronn Research Fellow at the University of Bristol.
- Robert Macy, whose work as an undergraduate student was supported by my grant NSF DMS-1557642 during spring 2016 (when he designed an R Shiny app to explore NHANES demographic data), is now a graduate student in the University of Michigan's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
- Vivek Pal was a postdoctoral scholar in number theory under my supervision in 2016-2017. He is now a visiting assistant professor at Columbia University.
- Heidi van Batenburg-Stafford wrote a senior honors thesis in algebraic number theory (on class groups) under my supervision at Northwestern University from 2011 to 2012.
- Max Dickinson, an undergraduate research student whose work was also was partially supported by my grant NSF DMS-1557642, explored the NHANES dataset during spring quarter 2016.
I chair Oregon's Distinguished Lecture Series for Undergraduate Students in Mathematics. At UNC, Hsu and I co-organized a similar lecture series, which was funded by an award from the Kenan-Biddle Partnership. I am also faculty co-supervisor of Oregon's new Undergraduate Mathematics Club. This fall, I was a member of the search committee for the new director of Oregon's McNair Scholars program.
I co-organized the 30th Annual Automorphic Forms Workshop, which took place in March 2016 at Wake Forest University. This workshop was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-1601959.