Lecturer and Math Support Coordinator

Currently teaching:

• MATH-1040 Introduction to Probability

• MATH-1050 Introduction to Mathematical Ideas  (more aptly titled Intro to Social Decision-Making)

...and also a mathematics researcher~

Current research:  How offering “Math Support” can improve learning outcomes for undergraduate students in their first year of university maths courses;  classification of universal partial cycles and restricted universal partial cycles;  existence or nonexistence of higher diamond density universal partial cycles;  generating algorithms for perfect necklaces;  looking for a generalized method for drawing “nice” De Bruijn graphs;  dabbling with flexagons and origami polyhedra.

Past research:  Off-diagonal generalized Schur numbers;  the uncertainty principle and applications to sparse data recovery;  twisted generalized Weyl algebras;  minimal tilings of rectangles with squares;  odd-path coverings of graphs.

Generally interested in:  Algebraic and geometric applications of graph theory and combinatorics; classification of families of sequences and cycles;  combinatorial games;  graph drawings;  teaching undergraduate mathematics (especially proofs, combinatorics, set theory, graph theory, and developmental courses);  diversity/equity/inclusion efforts in mathematics and in higher education as a whole.