Education
June, 2009
BA in Mathematics with Distinction, Summa Cum Laude. Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
TA Experience
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Fall, 2010
TA for Math 104E: Calculus I, Engineer Section
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Spring, 2011
TA for Math 170: Ideas in Mathematics
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Fall, 2011
TA for Math 104E: Calculus I, Engineer Section
Service
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Fall 2011-present
Master TA: help organize the training program for new TAs.
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Fall 2012-present
Math coordinator for the Tutoring Center: approves undergraduates for tutoring positions, trains new tutors, runs review sessions for students.
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Fall 2011-present
SASgov department representative: represent the Mathematics department in the graduate school student government.
Awards
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Fall, 2010
Math Department Good Teaching Award
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Spring, 2011
Math Department Good Teaching Award
Honorable Mention, Penn Prize for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
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Fall, 2011
Math Department Good Teaching Award
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Spring, 2012
Penn Prize for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students
Research Experience
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Fall, 2008
As our senior thesis ("comps" in Carleton lingo), Daniel McDonald and I studied a smattering of topics in combinatorics with an emphasis on combinatorial proofs of partition identities. Look here for a summary of what we did.
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Summer, 2007
For six weeks, Jonah Ostroff (Carleton '08) and I did combinatorics research under the supervision of Eric Egge. We enumerated certain classes of restricted symmetric permutations. Our results were recently published at Annals of Combinatorics. Check out an earlier draft of the paper here.
Talks
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November, 2010
q-Fibonacci Numbers. Graduate Combinatorics/Probability Seminar, University of Pennsylvania.
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September, 2010
Ramsey Theory and Applications. Graduate Student Pizza Seminar. notes
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February, 2010
Symmetric Permutations Avoiding Two Patterns. Graduate Combinatorics/Probability Seminar, University of Pennsylvania. pdf
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March, 2009
Bijective Proofs: You Say You Want an Involution? Mathematics Comps Talks, Carleton College. pdf
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February, 2009
A New Fibonacci Identity. Sigma Xi Induction Ceremony, Carleton College. pdf
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May, 2008
Symmetric Permutations Avoiding Two Patterns. Northfield Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium, Carleton College.
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January, 2008
Symmetric Permutations Avoiding a Pattern of Length Three and a Pattern of Length Four. Student Combinatorics Talks, Joint Math Meetings.
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August, 2007
Pattern-Avoiding Pig-mutations and Other Unfortunate Pig-manteaux. Prime Time Talk, Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics.
Journal Problems
At Carleton, I was active in the math problem-solving group. Under the pseudonym CMC 328 (homage to the room in which we often met), we submitted solutions to questions posed in problem sections of math journals. Here are two solutions of which I am particularly proud: Party hats, Balanced senates.