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- Fall 2025: I am teaching MATH 126: Calculus II and MATH 242: Modern Computational Mathematics.
- August 2025: Experimental Mathematics: A Computational Perspective, co-written with Matthew Richey, is now available in the AMS/MAA Textbooks series.
- May 2024: My paper Illuminating Illustration: Interesting Intersections and Helly's Theorem, written with Kristen Mazur, Mutiara Sondjaja, and Carolyn Yarnall, won the Trevor Evans Award for expository excellence in Math Horizons.
- Spring 2025: I taught MATH 220: Elementary Linear Algebra.
- January 2025: I taught MATH 261: Computational Geometry.
- May 2024: My paper Bacterial Growth: Not So Simple, written with John Chase, won the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for expository excellence in Mathematics Magazine.
- April 2024: Piercing Numbers in Circular Societies, written with Kristen Mazur, Mutiara Sondjaja, and Carolyn Yarnall, appeared in Mathematical Analyses of Decisions, Voting, and Games in the AMS series Contemporary Mathematics.
- November 2023: Three's A Crowd: An Exploration of Subprime Tribonacci Sequences, written with Sara Barrows, Emily Noye, and Sarah Uttormark, appeared in The College Mathematics Journal.
- October 2023: Bacterial Growth: Not So Simple, written with John Chase, appeared in Mathematics Magazine.
- September 2022: Value-Offset Bifiltrations for Digital Images, with Anway De and Thong Vo, was published in Computational Geometry.
- May 2022: Computing Minimal Presentations and Bigraded Betti Numbers of 2-Parameter Persistent Homology, with Michael Lesnick, was published in the SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry.
- Fall 2021: "Magic Triangles", written with Gabriel Hale and Bjorn Vogen, appeared in The Pi Mu Epsilon Journal. (preprint copy)
