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Education
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, June 2008.
Dissertation: Group decompositions, Jordan algebras, and algorithms for p-groups,
Adviser: Professor William M. Kantor.
Selected Awards: D. K. Harrison award 2008 (department award generously provided by the Harrison Family to reward ``the most outstanding graduate student'').
- M.S. in Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, June 2004.
- B.S. in Mathematics, Portland State University, Portland, June 2002.
Selected Awards: Rempfer Scholarship Award 2002 (department award generously provided by the Rempfer Family to ``encourage promising undergraduate mathematics students'').
Positions
- Colorado State University, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Since August 2011.
- Industrial Consulting: Since 2009
- The Ohio State University Zassenhaus Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, September 2008 to August 2011.
- University of Oregon Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Mathematics, September 2002 to June 2008.
- Intel Corporation Intel Architecture Labs, Jones Farm, December 1997 to June 2001.
Visiting Positions & Special Program Participation
- (Future) Henri Poincare Institute, Sorbonne, Paris Fall 2021.
- Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge U., Cambridge, Special Program: Groups Representations and Applications Jan. 2020.
- Cornell, Ithaca New York, April 2019.
- University of Auckland, Auckland New Zealand, Jan.-- Mar. 2019.
- Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics, Bonn Germany, Trimester Program: Logic & Algorithms in Group TheoryOct.-- Dec. 2018.
- Einstein Institute for Mathematics, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, February - June 2013
- Trinity University, National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates in Mathematics, Summer 2001.