Mentorship
Mentorship
From May 2023 - August 2024, I supervised a project in combinatorial game theory through the Illinois Combinatorics Lab for Undergraduate Experiences.
In Summer 2021, I mentored a problem about particular ratios of F-polynomials in cluster algebras associated with r-Kronecker quivers as part of the UMN Combinatorics REU.
In summer 2020, I was a TA for three problems (about F-polynomials formulas for cluster algebras associated to r-Kronecker quivers, q-continued fractions, and virtual resolutions of monomial ideals) in the UMN Combinatorics REU and one problem (about generalized alternating sign matrices) in the Polymath Jr. REU.
In both the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 academic years, I was a mentor and session leader for the Mathematics Project at Minnesota, a four day workshop for students from historically underrepresented groups. The workshop focuses on community building, professional development, and diversity training.
In summer 2017, I was a TA for two problems (one about parameterizations of k non-negative matrices and another about rules of three for Schur Q-functions and loop symmetric functions) in the UMN Combinatorics REU. The k non-negativity problem resulted in two papers.
In June 2024, I co-organized the Early-Career Conference in Combinatorics with Jozsef Balogh, Peter Bradshaw, Ian Cavey, Andrew Hardt, Ethan White, Michael Wigal, and Alexander Yong.
I co-organized the UIUC IRT seminar with Philippe di Francesco and Rinat Kedem.
From Fall 2021 to Spring 2024, I co-organized the UIUC Algebra-Geometry-Combinatorics seminar with Alexander Yong and a rotating collection of other postdocs and graduate students.
In June 2023, I co-organized the Schubert Summer School @ UIUC (with Andrew Hardt, Reuven Hodges, Avery St. Dizier, and Alexander Yong).
During the 2023 Joint Mathematics Meetings, I co-organized the special session "MSRI (SLMath) Special Session on Summer Research in Mathematics (SRiM): Cluster Algebras and Related Topics" with Esther Banaian and Sunita Chepuri.
In October 2022, I co-organized AlGeCom XXII with Avery St. Dizier and Alexander Yong.
During Fall 2021, Spring 2021, and Fall 2022, I was one of the co-organizers for the UIUC Student Cluster Algebra Seminar.
In April 2021, I co-organized the (virtual) Graduate Student Combinatorics Conference, an annual conference for graduate students interested in combinatorial topics. Almost all talks were recorded and are available here.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, I co-organized the University of Minnesota Student Combinatorics Seminar with Galen Dorpalen-Barry.
PhD thesis: Structural Properties of Reciprocal Generalized Cluster Algebras
Undergraduate thesis: A Combinatorial Approach to the Inscribed Square Problem
The fundamental theorem of tropical geometry (written for a commutative algebra course in graduate school)