Educational Activities
Ducks hiding in library during Math 458 Cryptography Scavenger Hunt in 2016
Research students and postdocs working under my supervision:
- Jon Aycock is on the job market, with an anticipated PhD in 2021. He works at the intersection of algebraic geometry and number theory, with a focus on p-adic automorphic forms. He receives support from the Anderson Research Award and the University of Oregon's College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Fellowship. He previously received summer support from my NSF CAREER grant DMS-1751281. Here's a video where he explains the research in his first paper. Fun fact: As an undergraduate at UNC, he was a student in my linear algebra and abstract algebra courses.
- Maria Fox is a Paul Olum Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on arithmetic geometry. She completed her PhD in 2019 at Boston College, under the supervision of Ben Howard.
- Sean Haight is a PhD student, whose research focuses on automorphic forms. During the summer of 2020, he is supported by my NSF CAREER grant DMS-1751281.
- Catherine Hsu completed her PhD (U. Oregon 2018) and MS (UNC 2015) in algebraic number theory. 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 a Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College. From 2018--2020, she was 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 in 2016-2017. He is now a visiting assistant professor at Columbia University. He completed his PhD at Columbia University, under the supervision of Wei Zhang.
- Heidi van Batenburg-Stafford wrote a senior honors thesis in algebraic number theory (on class groups) 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 started and chair Oregon's Distinguished Lecture Series for Undergraduate Students in Mathematics. At UNC, Hsu and I started and co-organized a similar lecture series, which was funded by an award from the Kenan-Biddle Partnership. I have been faculty co-supervisor of Oregon's new Undergraduate Mathematics Club since its inception. During fall 2018, 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.