Curriculum Vitae

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

(919)660-2854 (office) (email)

Personal

Birth date: April 21, 1983
Birth place: Ogden, UT, USA
Citizenship: US Citizen

Education

MA	Duke University	2008
MS	Utah State University	2007
BS	Utah State University	2006

Areas of Research

Differential Geometry

Areas of Interest

General Relativity
Geometric Analysis
Lie Algebras

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Graduate Student Instructor/Teaching/Research Assistant, Mathematics Department, August, 2007

Responsibilities included either teaching a section of an introductory level course in mathematics or heading a lab for one such section as often as required by my program. Labs taught: Math 32L - Fall 2007. Courses taught: Math 25L - Fall 2008, Summer 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Summer 2010; Math 41L - Fall 2010; Math 31L - Spring 2011. Note: Math 25L, 31L, 32L, and 41L are parts of different types of first year Calculus course sequences.

Utah State University

Teaching Assistant, Mathematics and Statistics Department, January, 2006 - August, 2007

Responsibilities included teaching a section of an introductory level course in mathematics each semester (summers optional) and attending annual teacher workshops. Courses taught: Intermediate Algebra (Math 1010) - Spring 2006, Summer 2006; College Algebra (Math 1050) - Fall 2006, Spring 2007; First Semester Single Variable Calculus (Math 1210) - Summer 2007.

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

L.P. and Barbara Smith Award for Teaching Excellence, Duke University Mathematics Department, September, 2010
L.P. and Barbara Smith Award for Beginning Teachers, Duke University Mathematics Department, February, 2009
Magna Cum Laude, Utah State University, May, 2006
Robert C. Byrd Scholarship, Utah State Board of Education, 2001
University Club Scholarship, Utah State University, 2001

Professional Service

Duke Mathematics Department Calculus Committee, January, 2010 - present  

Selected Recent Invited Talks

Crazy Cosmological Correlations and How General Relativity Has and Might Continue to Explain Them, Duke University, April 20, 2012  

Dark Matter Matters, Duke University, March 23, 2012  

Conferences Attended

41st Barrett Memorial Lectures in Mathematical Relativity, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 11-14, 2011, Role: Attendee
27th Annual Geometry Festival, Duke University, April 27-29, 2012, Role: Attendee/Technology Liason
MSRI Summer Graduate Workshop on Mathematical General Relativity, July 9-20, 2012, Role: Teaching Assistant

Publications

Papers In Preparation

1. Alan R. Parry, A Survey of Spherically Symmetric Spacetimes (Spring, 2012)

Other

1. Alan R. Parry, A Classification of Real Indecomposable Solvable Lie Algebras of Small Dimension with Codimension One Nilradicals (August, 2007), Utah State University, Logan, UT (Master's Thesis.) [html]