About me:
I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Applied Mathematics at UC- Davis. In 2008, I graduated from Reed College in Portland having majored in mathematics. My thesis, Entropy, Computation, and Demons, concerned the relationship between conceptually different theories of information, particularly Shannon entropy, Kolmogorov complexity, and physical entropy. After Reed, I lived in Portland, Casablanca, and Paris where my wife Sophia and I got married. Before Reed, oddly enough, I grew up here in Davis where I participated in fun things like ARML and the Berkeley Math Circle (but now there's a math circle in Davis! see here), as well as theatre (be sure to check out Barnyard theatre), martial arts, and other fun stuff.

   My wife Sophia and I in Casablanca

Teaching:
    This summer, I will teach math 21D during Summer Session I.
 

Past Teaching:
    2011 Summer Associate Instructor (not TA) for Math 25 Advanced Calculus.
    2011: Taught Math 21A and Physics 9A to students visiting from KAUST through the UCD Extension Center.
    2010-2011: TA for 21D, 21C and 16A here at UCD, Calculus Room tutor for MAT 12, 16ABC, 22A
    2004-2008: Grader and de facto TA for Calculus, Multivariable Calculus I and II, Number Theory, and Theory of Computation at Reed College
    2004-2008: Math Center Tutor at Reed College
    2004-2005: Physics tutor at Reed's Science Center
    2005: Willett Elementary Math Outreach- wrote and presented curriculum on combinatorics, cryptography, and geometry for 4th-6th graders
    2004: Physics Outreach at Woodstock Elementary in Portland- taught fun physics to 5th graders
    Various tutoring since 2001, from 2nd grade to analysis, topology, and abstract algebra.

Research Interests:
    I am interested in probability and mathematical physics. I recently attended the Lattice Models and Combinatorics Workshop at MSRI as part of their random spatial processes program. I also just attended the Arizona School in Analysis and Mathematical Physics.
     This summer, I received a VIGRE Fellowship to work with Dan Romik in combinatorial probability. More info soon.

Friends with Cool Stuff:

Kat has a food blog! Yum.
Chelsea has a band!
Marion a un blog sur les droits des animaux! (French)
Also, see the math department's tutor list.


Graduate Coursework:

    Spring 2012:
      235C Probability
       226C ODEs Numerics
       280 Random Matrix Theory
       266 Quantum Field Theory

    Winter 2012:
      235B Probability
       205 Complex Analysis
       290 RFG in Quantum Phase Transitions

    Fall 2011:
       235A Probability
       218A Partial Differential Equations
       265 Mathematical Quantum Mechanics
       Phys 215A Quantum Mechanics
       290 Research Focus Group in Quantum Phase Transitions

    Spring 2011:
      201C Analysis
       206 Measure Theory
       EEC 266 Information Theory
       290 Harmonic Analysis on Graphs
       290 RFG: Seminar in Quantum Mechanics and Probability

    Winter 2011:
      201B Analysis
       119A Ordinary Differential Equations
       290 RFG: Seminar in Quantum Mechanics and Probability
       290 Introduction to Quantum Spin Systems
   
    Fall 2010:
        201A Analysis
        228A Numerical Solutions to PDEs
        227 Mathematical Biology
        390 Teaching Methods
        290 Research Focus Group: 202 Functional Analysis and 280 Mathematical Classical Mechanics