Curriculum Vitae

Duke University, Box 90320 Durham, NC 27708-0320 USA

919-660-2811 (office) (email)

Education

MA	Duke University	2004
BS with Honors in the Major	University of Wisconsin	2003

Areas of Research

Differential Geometry, Geometric PDE, Exterior Differential Systems, Mathematics Education

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Instructor, Mathematics, August, 2007 - August, 2007

Pre-Qualifier Preparation Program, a week-long intensive linear-algebra and analysis review for incoming graduate students.

Instuctor, Mathematics, September, 2006 - December, 2006

Math 32, Calculus II

Instructor, Mathematics, August, 2006 - August, 2006

Pre-Qualifier Preparation Program, a week-long intensive linear-algebra and analysis review for incoming graduate students.

Instructor, Mathematics, January, 2006 - May, 2006

Math 32L, Lab Calculus II

Instructor, Mathematics, September, 2005 - December, 2005

Math 32L, Lab Calculus II

TIP Mentor, Talent Identification Program, July, 2005 - August, 2005

Solely developed and taught a 4-week course on algebraic topology as a special program for three extremely bright teenage students in Duke’s Talent Identification Program.

Teaching Assistant, Mathematics, January, 2004 - May, 2004

Lab instructor for 32L, Lab Calculus II

University of Wisconsin

Teaching Assistant, Mathematics, January, 2003 - May, 2003

Math 222, Calculus II

Teaching Assistant, Mathematics, September, 2002 - December, 2002

Math 221, Calculus I

Selected Grant Support

• 2008-2009 Graduate School Teaching Mini-Grant, Duke University Graduate School.      

Professional Service

President, Duke Math Grad Student Association, 2005  

Secretary, Graduate Calculus Curriculum Review Commitee, Spring, 2007  

Selected Recent Invited Talks

Integrability of 2nd order PDE and GL(2,R) geometry, NC State. AMS special session on geometry of PDE, April, 2009 [html]  

DEs to EDS: How to "solve" PDEs without being clever., Duke, November 30, 2007  

GL(2,R) structures and integrability, UC--Berkeley, October 22, 2007  

Finsler geometry and the technique of moving frames., Duke, April 09, 2007  

Professional Affiliations

American Mathematical Society [AMS]
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute [MSRI] (2007-2008)

Publications

Other

1. Rann Bar-On, Paul Bendich, Benjamin Cooke, Michael Gratton, Timothy Lucas, Michael Nicholas, Nicholas Robbins, Abraham Smith, Joseph Spivey, Graduate Calculus Curriculum Review, Spring 2007 (March, 2007) [pdf]