Fellowships and Scholarships

• NSF VIGRE postdoctoral fellowship. May 2003 - June 2003, Sept. 2001 - May 2002.
• Rackham Faculty Fellowship. May 2002--June 2002.
• Department of Education GAANN Fellowship. Jan. 1997--May 1997, Sept. 1998--Dec. 1998, Sept.1999--Dec. 1999.
• Wheaton College Class Scholarship. Aug. 1992--May 1993, Aug. 1993--May 1994, Aug. 1994--May 1995.

Publications

• Smallest Graded Betti Numbers, J. of Alg., 244 (2001), no. 1, 236-259.
• Possible resolutions for a given Hilbert function, with E. Graham Evans, Comm. Alg., 30 (2002), no. 2, 897--906.
• A Study of the Lex Plus Powers Conjecture, to appear J. of Pure and Applied Alg.
• Lower Bounds for Betti Numbers, with Mel Hochster. to appear, J. of Pure and Applied Alg.
• Monomial Ideals and N-Lists, submitted to Il. J. of Math.
• Szygyies of Semi-Regular Sequences, joint with Keith Pardue, in progress.

Conference Presentations:

• Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 2002.
• Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of Notre Dame, April 2002.Commutative Algebra Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Feb. 2002.
• Undergraduate Math Club, University of Michigan. Jan. 2002.
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, California, Jan. 2002.
• Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, University at Albany, SUNY, Nov. 2001.
• Student Commutative Algebra/Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of Michigan, Nov. 2001.
• Student Commutative Algebra/Algebraic Geometry Seminar, University of Michigan, April 2001.
• Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Cornell University, Oct. 2000.
• Commutative Algebra Seminar, University of Michigan, Sept. 2000.AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Syzygies, Lowell, Massachusetts, April 2000.
• Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Syracuse University, Oct. 1999.
• Commutative Algebra Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Feb. 1999.
• Commutative Algebra Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 1998.

Other Conferences Attended:

• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Phoenix, 2004.
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, 2003.
• CBMS Lecture Series: Solving systems of Polynomial Equations, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, May 2002.
• AMS Sectional Meeting, Special Session in Commutative Algebra, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 2002.
• CoCoA VII Conference, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, July 2001.
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, D.C, Jan. 2000.
• AMS Sectional Meeting, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 1999.
• Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Oct. 1998.
• Summer Program for Graduate Students of MSRI Sponsoring Institutions: Algorithmic Algebra and Geometry. Berkeley, California, July 1998.
• Midwest Topology Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 1997.

Courses Taught:

• Linear Algebra -- undergraduate, Fall 2002, U. of M.
• Commutative Algebra II -- graduate level, Spring 2002, U. of M.
• Commutative Algebra I -- graduate level, Fall 2001, U. of M.
• Applied Modern Algebra -- undergraduate, Spring 2001, U. of M.
• Calculus II -- undergraduate, small group learning format, Spring 2001, Fall 2000, U. of M.
• Calculus with {\it Mathematica -- calculus taught using the software package Mathematica, Spring 2000, U. of I.
• Business Calculus -- lectured to over 200 students and supervised 6 graduate TAs, Spring 1999. Taught small lecture sections in Fall 1996, Spring 1996, and Fall 1995, U. of I.
• Calculus I -- small lecture section format, Summer 1998; small group learning format, Spring 1996, U. of I.
• Algebra -- small group learning format, Spring 1998, Summer 1997, U. of I.
• Elementary Linear Algebra with Applications -- ran review sections and graded exams, Fall 1997, U. of I.

Research Supervised:

• Summer 2003: Supervisied two Cal Poly undergraduates working on the Buchsbaum-Eisenbud-Horrocks conjecture. Quite some progress was made on cyclic Gorenstein quotients with restricted Hilbert functions.
• Fall 2002: Supervised two University of Michigan undergraduatess working on the Lex-Plus-Powers conjecture for Hilbert functions. Several possible combinatoric descriptions of the general conjecture were ruled out.
• Spring 2002: Supervisied a University of Michigan undergraudate doing beginning work on the Lex-Plus-Powers conjecture for Hilbert functions.

Technological Skills:

Experienced teaching and researching using the TI-82 and TI-83 Plus calculators, the computer algebra system Macaulay II, and Mathematica.

Other Professional Activities:

• Referee for the Journal of Algebra.
• Referee for the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.
• Reviewer for Math Reviews.
• Thesis Committee Member for Haggai Elitzur, Spring 2003.
• Oral Preliminary Committee Member for Hai Long Dao, Spring 2003.
• Oral Preliminary Committee Member for Geoffrey Dietz, Fall 2002.
• Attended Issues in K-12 Mathematics Education seminar -- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Spring 1999.

Societies:

• American Mathematical Society.
• Member of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences.

Activities:

I enjoy hiking, and camping with my lovely wife, playing basketball, lifting weights, and generally being/working outside. Woodworking is my newest hobby, and it partially satiates my desire to build things. I also attend a local church where I help out in any way that I can.