A bit about me:

I am a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Santa Clara University.  I have a B.S. in Mathematics from San Diego State University, graduating summa cum laude, and received my Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of California, San Diego in 1991, working with Jeff Remmel.  I came to SCU in September, 1991. 

I am a California native, raised in Menlo Park. When I am not at SCU, I am probably working at home,  working in my yard, hiking, at the beach, backpacking....

I have one husband, two children, (Nora and Neal), 1 cat, and 1 dog.  Nora  (an SCU grad) is a software engineer; Neal is a graduate of Cal Poly Humboldt, with a degree in Forestry.

Research:

My area of research is algebraic combinatorics.  I work Glenn Appleby on matrix realizations of Littlewood-Richardson coefficients, connections with hives and honeycombs, and a new model for A_{n-1} crystals, called perforated tableaux.  You can find some of my papers under the Recent Papers tab.

Teaching:

I teach a variety of courses: discrete mathematics, abstract algebra, linear algebra, combinatorics, graph theory, probability and statistics, calculus.