I am a fourth-year graduate student in the Rice Mathematics Department. My advisor is Brendan Hassett. My research interests are heading toward Geometric Invariant Theory.

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Education

• Rice University, Houston, TX. Ph.D. Mathematics, Candidate.
• Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA. B.S. Mathematics, May 2009.
• Home Schooled, Redlands, CA, 1987-2005.

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Research and Papers

• For current study, please view my research webpage.

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Seminars

• Spring 2012: Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar.

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Teaching

My past and present teaching assignments at Rice:

• Spring 2013: Teaching Assistant, Math 373, Elliptic Curves.
• Spring 2013: Teaching Assistant, Math 366, Geometry.
• Fall 2012: Instructor, Math 102, Single Variable Calculus II.
• Spring 2012: Teaching Assistant, Math 366, Geometry.
• Spring 2012: Teaching Assistant, Math 212, Multivariable Calculus (half duties).
• Fall 2011: Head Teaching Assistant, Math 102, Single Variable Calculus II.
• Spring 2011: Teaching Assistant, Math 212, Multivariable Calculus.
• Fall 2010: Teaching Assistant, Math 211, Ordinary Differential Equations.
• Spring 2010: Teaching Assistant, Math 112, Calculus and Its Applications.
• Fall 2009: Teaching Assistant, Math 211, Ordinary Differential Equations.

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Talks and Conferences

Past and upcoming talks:

• "Distinguished Divisors on the Fano Surface of Lines" Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, Rice University, April 18, 2013.
• "Cubic Hypersurfaces" Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, Rice University, March 14, 2013.
• "Polarizations and the Riemann Bilinear Relations" Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, Rice University, February 7, 2013.
• "Moduli Spaces and Morse Theory (...For Polygons)" Current Mathematics Seminar, Rice University, January 31, 2013.
• "Bend-and-Break" Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, Rice University, November 5, 2012.
• "The Cone of Curves" Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, Rice University, September 17, 2012.
• "Complex Vector Bundles and Chern Classes III" Summer Seminar: Characteristic Classes, Rice University, July 27, 2012.
• "Complex Vector Bundles and Chern Classes II" Summer Seminar: Characteristic Classes, Rice University, July 25, 2012.
• "Complex Vector Bundles and Chern Classes I" Summer Seminar: Characteristic Classes, Rice University, July 23, 2012.
• "The r-matrix Method" Summer Seminar: Integrable Systems, Rice University, July 16, 2012.
• "Toric Varieties: Preliminaries and Examples" Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, Rice University, January 23, 2012.
• "Sato-Tate Conjecture" Math 521: Random Matrices, Rice University, November 29, 2011.
• "Higher Order Deformations" Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, Rice University, October 21, 2011.
• "Lichtenbaum-Schlessinger Functors" Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, Rice University, September 23, 2011.
• "Introduction to Toric Varieties" Current Mathematics Seminar, Rice University, September 1, 2011.
• "Line Bundles on a Complex Torus" Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, Rice University, February 1, 2011.
• "Introduction to Geometric Invariant Theory" Current Mathematics Seminar, Rice University, January 27, 2011.
• "Complex Tori and their Cohomology Groups" Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, Rice University, January 25, 2011.
• "Hodge Decomposition Theorem on Riemann Manifolds: Proof" Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, Rice University, September 9, 2010.
• "Hodge Decomposition Theorem on Riemann Manifolds: Preliminaries" Algebraic Geometry Working Seminar, Rice University, September 2, 2010.
• "Abelian Sandpile Model on Symmetric Graphs" Pacific Coast Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, University of California Riverside, March 2009.
• "Classifying the Simplices of the 4-Dimensional Cube" Undergraduate Research Talk, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington DC, January 6, 2009.
• "'Syncing' Up with the Quinn-Rand-Strogatz Constant" SACNAS, Kansas City, MO, October 11-14, 2007.

Past and upcoming conferences attended:

• Conference on Algebraic Geometry, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 8-12, 2013.
• Rational Points, Rational Curves and Entire Holomorphic Curves on Projective Varieties, Montreal, Quebec, June 3-28, 2013.
• Hempelfest (3-Manifolds Conference), Houston, TX, April 19-21, 2013.
• Texas Algebraic Geometry Symposium, Austin, TX, April 6-7, 2013.
• Graduate Student Workshop on Moduli Spaces and Bridgeland Stability, Chicago, IL, March 23-25, 2013.
• AIM Workshop: Log MMP for Moduli Spaces, Palo Alto, CA, December 10-14, 2012.
• Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, Houston, TX, November 9-11, 2012.
• UGA Algebraic Geometry Symposium and VIGRE Summer School, Athens, GA, May 21-June 2, 2012.
• Texas Algebraic Geometry Symposium, College Station, TX, April 27-29, 2012.
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, MA, January 4-7, 2012.
• Texas Algebraic Geometry Symposium, Houston, TX, April 22-24, 2011.
• Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium, Houston, TX, March 24-17, 2011.
• SACNAS, Anaheim, CA, September 28-October 3, 2010.
• Pacific Coast Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Riverside, CA, March 14, 2009.
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington DC, January 5-8, 2009.
• PCMI: Algebraic Geometry, Park City, Utah, Summer 2008
• SACNAS, Kansas City, MO, October 11-14, 2007.
• MSRI-Undergraduate Program, Berkeley, CA, Summer 2007.