Ph.D. (1999), Stanford University Tamarkin Instructor (1997-2001), Brown University. Assistant and then Associate Professor (2001-present), University of Oregon. Research interests include rational homotopy theory and applications of homotopy theory to the study of manifolds, in particular knot theory, configuration spaces, and transformation groups. I have had two graduate students complete PhDs, namely Matt Miller who studied orbit configuration spaces of Lens spaces and Chad Giusti, who worked out a piecewise-linear version of Vassiliev theory. I currently have one student working towards her PhD, namely Kristy Pelatt, who is working on the homology of knot spaces. My teaching interests and practices include creating context to facilitate abstract reasoning, presenting outlines to help students organize what they learn, "putting problems first" in teaching proofs, and giving frequent small assignments to foster independence in advanced courses. I am currently my department's Director of Graduate Studies and chair of the University's Intercollegiate Athletics Committee. In the past I have served on the University Library Committee which is currently very concerned about the pricing of journals. I co-organized the West Coast Algebraic Topology Summer School which focussed on the Madsen-Weiss theorem in 2010. I also co-organized a workshop on Knot Spaces at the American Institute of Mathematics in January 2006; an AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology of Moduli Spaces in November 2005; and the Cascade Topology Seminar in the fall of 2003. As for my personal interests, I run, bike, cook and am an avid fan of track and field (all activities for which Oregon is a great setting). |
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