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Professional Information:

Teaching

In spring of 2025,  I will be teaching the advanced calculus course for first-year majors in our department and a course on short-term actuarial models. 

Research Interests

Algebraic Number Theory

• Stark's conjectures, specifically the Brumer-Stark conjecture

• integrality properties and congruences for values of equivariant Artin L-functions

• Iwasawa theory

• binary quadratic forms

• continued fractions

Actuarial Science

• Allocation of risk capital

• Mortality modeling

Genealogy

• Methods in genealogical analysis, including genetic genealogy

• One-name-studies, especially Thurbers, Wadsworths, and Jackson (the latter focusing on Northern Ireland and Beaver County, Pennsylvania)

• 18th century Rhode Island

Publications and Preprints

Curriculum Vitae

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Bio:

I grew up in southern Los Angeles County.  I moved south for college, doing both my undergraduate and graduate studies at the beautiful University of California, San Diego.  After a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Irvine, I moved east with my wife Kelly and daughter Lilah to take a position at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, PA.  I spend a lot of time with my family around the house reading, cooking (especially grilling), and cycling around the local country roads. I am an expert Boggle player, actively playing the mobile apps Ruzzle (UN: Apoplexy) and Scramble With Friends (UN: Apoplexic).  (Please challenge me, but send me an email first so I don't accidentally decline your invite.)  I have lately reacquired a drum kit and a piano and enjoy playing both.