About Me

I am an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. I got my undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University, and my PhD from the University of Michigan (under the direction of Ralf Spatzier). I was fortunate to work at Rice University for three years as a VIGRE Lovett Instructor and at Williams College for a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor before moving to Iowa.

My professional interests include:
  • Research:
    • Geometry, especially differential geometry
    • dynamical systems
    • Lie groups
    • Rigidity theory for lattice subgroups of semisimple Lie groups
    • combinatorics of $m$-ary partitions
  • Teaching
    • inquiry-based learning
    • standards based assessment and reporting
    • integration of software into the mathematics classroom
    • undergraduate research
I got hired at UNI to teach geometry courses to pre-service teachers and to promote undergraduate research.

This blog will be mostly about mathematics. For writing about teaching mathematics at the college level, see my other blog: Circles and Tangents.
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