Basic Info
- • I am an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle.
- • Email is the best way to reach me. My email address is my last first initial followed by my last name @uw.edu. In person you can find me at my office, Padelford Hall C-417.
- • Here is my curriculum vitae. Current as of April 2013.
- • At left is me with my beagle, Piko. Her name means "belly button" in Hawaiian, among other things.
Who I am
I am an Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle. Previously, I was a VIGRE Fellow at UC Davis. I received my Ph.D from the University of Minnesota in 2009 under the direction of Vic Reiner.
Some things about me
• I get my music suggestions, almost exclusively for the
past 7 years, from Jody Wisternoff via his excellent podcast Way
Out There.
• I love good beer, in particular I like a
good sweet stout. I am partial to Bell's Kalamazoo Stout when I am
home in the midwest.
• I love hiking in the
mountains. This winter, I've been doing some moutaineering in the Cascades. Here is the view from the top of Granite Mountain in February.
What I do
I study algebraic and geometric combinatorics. I particularly like to study matroids and hyperplane arrangements through their algebraic and geometric invariants.
The point-line incidences in the above non-Pappus configuration cannot be realized by a collection of straight lines, in a projective space over a field. I like to find ways that algebraic objects see this fact.