Introduction

I am an Associate Professor at Kansas (KU).

I arrived at KU in January 2016. Prior to that I was an NSF postdoc (MSPRF) at Michigan and Utah, a Postdoctoral Fellow at MSRI in the Commutative Algebra Program, and a Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor at Minnesota. My Ph.D. is from Michigan, and my B.S. is from Boston University.

Before all of that, I was a student at El Paso High School, Wiggs Middle School, and Vilas Elementary School, all public schools in the El Paso Independent School District.

Graduate advising

I am currently advising Christopher Wong, a Ph.D. student in his fifth year. Chris is studying the Bernstein-Sato polynomial associated to a hypersurface in certain concrete singular rings.

I am also advising Emily Hastings, an M.A. student. Emily's thesis will focus on the Number Field Sieve, an approach for factoring integers, and some of its predecessors.

My Ph.D. student, Trevor Arrigoni, graduated in Spring 2024. His thesis was titled F-invariants of certain power series. Trevor is currently a Visiting Assistand Professor at Oberlin College.

My M.A. student, Grace McMonagle, graduated in 2021. Her thesis was titled Quantum Algorithms and the Hidden Subgroup Problem.

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