Research Intrests

Publication lists

Invited addresses

Conferences/Workshops

Education

Work history

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Individual Addresses

Decomposing p-groups via Jordan algebras, Mar. 23, 2009, University of California San Diego, 50 minute talk.

Distinguished Visiting Professor, February 23-27, 2009, Bucknell University.

Using nonassociative rings for bilinear problems in group theory, October 24 2008, IDA-CCR La Jolla.

Conference Addresses

Unique decompositions of large unipotent groups, Invited 20 minute talk,
Workshop on Matrix Group Recogniztion, Edinburgh, July 30, 2009.

Using nonassociative algebras for p-groups, 20 minute talk,
AMS Sectional Meeting in Kalamazoo, October 2008.

Decomposing p-groups of class 2, Invited 20 minute talk,
Conference on the local and global analysis
of groups and related object in honor of George Glauberman,
The University of Chicago, March 2008.

p-groups and algebras, Invited 30 minute talk,
Groups and Computations, Ohio State University, March 2008.

Decomposing p-groups via Jordan algebras, 10 minute talk,
AMS/ MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, January 2008.

Enumerating Finite Groups, 50 minute talk,
University of Oregon, April 2006.

Computing Sylow subgroups of solvable matrix groups, Invited 90 minute talk,
University of Auckland, New Zealand, February 2005.

Symmetries in the Lindisfarne gospels, Invited 30 minute talk,
Symposium at the Portland Art Museum, May 2002.

p-adic upper half planes and representation numbers of quadratic forms, 20 minute talk,
AMS/ MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, January 2002.

Ganymede: A conversational consumer electronics software interface, with B. Wymore, 3 day booth presentation,
Intel Developer Forum, Palm Springs, September 1 to 3, 1999.

Other Addresses

Matrix Group Recognition, St. Andrews, July 27-31, 2009.

AMS Sectional Meeting in Kalamazoo, October 2008.

Conference on the local and global analysis of groups and related object in honor of George Glauberman, The University of Chicago, March 25 to 30, 2008.

Groups and Computation, The Ohio State University, March 16 to 22, 2008.

AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, January 6 to 9, 2008.

Lie Groups, Representations and Discrete Mathematics II, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, February 6 to 10, 2006.

Lie Groups, Representations and Discrete Mathematics I, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, November 14 to 18, 2005.

Geometry: Its interactions with algebra and analysis, University of Auckland, New Zealand, February 15 to 19, 2005.

Finite Geometries, Groups and Computation\\ Pingree Park, CO, September 4 to 9, 2004.

AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, January 6 to 9, 2002.

Intel Developer Forum, Palm Springs, September 1 to 3, 1999.

Dissertation: Group decompositions, Jordan algebras, and algorithms for $p$-groups,
Adviser: Professor William M. Kantor.

Selected Awards: D. K. Harrison award 2008 (department award generously provided by the Harrison Family to reward ``the most outstanding graduate student'').

M.S. in Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, June 2004.

B.S. in Mathematics with high honors, Portland State University, Portland, June 2002.

Selected Awards: Rempfer Scholarship Award 2002 (department award generously provided by the Rempfer Family to ``encourage promising undergraduate mathematics students'').

The Ohio State University September 2008 to present,
Zassenhaus Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics.

Institute for Defense Analysis: Center for Communications Research (IDA-CCR La Jolla) June 2009 to August 2009.

University of Oregon, September 2002 to June 2008
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Mathematics.

Trinity University, Summer 2001,
National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates in Mathematics.

Intel Corporation, December 1997 to June 2001,