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Current Courses (Fall 2025):

Math 374 (Undergrad Rep. Theory)

Math 463/563 (Grad Algebra 1)

Past Courses at Rice

Math 464/564 (Spr. 2025)

Graduate Algebra 2

Math 356 (Fall 2024)

Undergrad Algebra 1

Math 466/566 (Spr. 2024)

Topics in Algebra 2

Math 463/563 (Fall 2023)

Graduate Algebra 1

Math 464/564 (Spr. 2023)

Graduate Algebra 2

Math 374 (Spring 2022)

Undergrad Rep. Theory

Math 463/563 (Fall 2021)

Graduate Algebra 1

Math 357 (Spring 2021)

Undergrad Algebra 2

Math 463/563 (Fall 2020)

Graduate Algebra 1

Past Courses at UIUC

Math 500 (Fall 2019)

Graduate Algebra

Math 417 (Spring 2019)

Undergrad Abstract Algebra

Math 506 (Fall 2018)

Graduate Representation Theory

Past Courses at Temple

Math 8011 (Fall 2017)

Graduate Algebra 1

Math 9011 (Spring 2017)

Homological Algebra

Math 3098 (Fall 2016)

Undergraduate Algebra 1

Learning Groups

Spring 2023

State Sum Models & Invariants of 3-Manifolds

Fall 2022

2D TQFTs & Frobenius Algebras
(Led by Fernando Liu Lopez)

Fall 2021, Spring 2022

Algebra in Braided Tensor Cats

Spring 2021

Hochschild Cohomology

Fall 2020

3D TQFTs & Modular Categories

Summer 2020

Braided Tensor Categories

Fall 2019

Monoidal Categories

Spring 2019

2D TQFTs & Frobenius Algebras