Welcome
to my
mathematics homepage! I have been teaching mathematics and
science for the last twelve years, including a stint in the Peace Corps.
Of course, for six of those years I taught as a Mathematics graduate student at
the
University
of Oregon in
Eugene.
I received my B.A. in
mathematics and english literature from
Lewis
& Clark College, and my
M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics from the
University of
Oregon.
My current research interests are in noncommutative ring theory and
algebraic
geometry. (My former Ph.D. advisor and mentor is
Brad
Shelton.) If you are
interested you can read a bit
about my research and obtain recent preprints of my publications on my
research
page.
I have interest in student research in my own fields as a
well as
combinatorial game theory, computational algebra, and applied
mathematics in the sciences--in particular biology.
I am currently an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University
of Portland. For the fall semester, I am teaching two sections of
Vector Calculus and one section of Discrete Structures. This
spring I am teaching one section of Vector Calculus (MTH 301) and one
section of Linear Algebra (MTH 341).