Research Interests
Representation theory
- Character degrees, p-parts of character degrees
- Field of values of characters, real and rational valued characters
- Zeros of characters
Permutation groups
- Derangements or fixed point free permutations
- Permutation characters and regular orbits
Finite group theory
- Conjugacy classes
- Generations of groups
- Products of conjugacy classes
- Nilpotency and solvability criteria
- Commuting probability and generalizations
- Orders of commutators and variants of Baer-Suzuki, Thompson's, and Glauberman's theorems
Current PhD students
Former PhD Students
Christopher Schroeder, PhD, Spring 2026
Zachary Costanzo, PhD, Spring 2022
Postdoc Mentoring
Tae Young Lee, Riley Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, Fall 2024 -
Daniel Rossi, Riley Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
Zeinab Akhlaghi, Postdoctoral Fellow at UKZN, July 2013 - April 2014
My Erdős number is 3: Hung P. Tong-Viet - Kay Magaard - Persi W. Diaconis - Paul Erdős
My Einstein number is 3: H.P. Tong-Viet - Robert Guralnick - Ernst Gabor Straus - Albert Einstein
Recent co-authors