Schools & Programs:
- Willamette University Class of 2011 Mathematics Major
- Mathematics Advanced Study Semester at the Pennsylvania State Fall 2009
- Budapest Semester in Mathematics Spring 2010
- Rationality Boot Camp at the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence Summer 2011
- Stanford University Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2011
Job
- Executive Director, Saving Humanity from Homo Sapiens
Papers:
- Explorations in Negative Voting is currently being reviewed for publication by the Pi Mu Epsilon journal
- An Elementary Construction of the Convex Regular Polytopes of All Dimensions has been written, and is being edited prior to submission to the MAA’s Mathematics Magazine
Presentations:
- Explorations in Negative Voting at MathFest 2009 (see Awards)
- An Elementary Construction of the Platonic Solids of Every Dimension at MathFest 2010
- Convex Regular Polytopes: An Expansion of Euclid’s Proof of the Uniqueness of the Platonic Solids to Work in All Dimensions, a slight retooling of the MathFest 2010 presentation, at the Worldwide Center of Mathematics, December 2010. You can watch the video of the talk under the Research tab.
- The same as the above, at the Northwest Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium 2011
Awards and Miscellany:
- Pi Mu Epsilon Award for Outstanding Research and Presentation for my presentation Explorations in Negative Voting at MathFest 2009
- Founding Member, Oregon Zeta Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon
- Member, Mathematical Assocation of America.
- Member, Philosophy of Math Special Interest Group
- Beta Theta Pi Scholarship Chair, Gamma Sigma Chapter, Fall 2008
- Challenge of the Child Geniuses II: Who is the Smartest Kid in America? was an absurdly titled gameshow I was on in Fall 2001. It was on Fox and hosted by Dick Clark and ran for two episodes (I was on the 2nd, hence II).
Classes
- Foundations of Advanced Math, Fall 2008 at Willamette, with Erin McNicholas
- Linear Algebra, Spring 2009 at Willamette, with Alex Jordan
- Explorations in Convexity, Fall 2009 at PSU, with Sergei Tabachnikov
- Groups and Their Connection to Geometry, Fall 2009 at PSU, with Anatole Katok
- Complex Analysis from a Fluid Dynamics Perspective, Fall 2009 at PSU, with Andrew Belmonte
- Topics in Real Analysis, Spring 2010 at BSM, with Gergely Ambrus
- Number Theory, Spring 2010 at BSM, with Csaba Szabó
- Introduction to Combinatorics, Spring 2010 at BSM, with Attila Sali
- Differential Geometry, Spring 2010 at BSM, with Balázs Csikos
- Real Analysis II, Fall 2010 at Willamette, with Inga Johnson
- Introduction to Programming: Java, Fall 2010 at Willamette, with Jim Levenick
- Abstract Algebra, Fall 2010 at Willamette, with Colin Starr
- Math Major Senior Seminar: Möbius Transforms, Spring 2011 at Willamette, with Mark Janeba
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2011 at Stanford University, with Sebastien Thrun and Peter Norvig
- Machine Learning, Fall 2011 at Stanford, with Andrew Ng
Conferences Attended
- Northwest Undergraduate Mathematics Conference 2009
- MathFest 2009 (see Presentations, Awards)
- MathFest 2010 (see Presentations)
- Northwest Philosophy Conference 2010
- Joint Mathematics Meeting 2011
- Northwest Undergraduate Mathematics Symposium 2011 (see Presentations)
