Education & Professional History
Carleton College, BA; University of Wisconsin (Madison), MA, PhD
At Carleton since 2005.
Highlights & Recent Activity
In November of 2019 I published a book called An Introduction to Symmetric Functions and Their Combinatorics. In 2020 I won the MAA North Central Section Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations
I am a long-time member of both the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society.
My research interests are in Algebra and Combinatorics, and I have published papers on the Terwilliger algebra, pattern-avoiding permutations, Legendre-Stirling numbers, Jacobi-Stirling numbers, and symmetric functions. I have a particular interest in mentoring undergraduate research, and I have worked with students on projects involving pattern-avoiding permutations, Legendre-Stirling numbers, alternating sign matrices, and harmonic functions on Young’s lattice.
I teach courses throughout the introductory level of the Mathematics curriculum, including Calculus of all sorts, Linear Algebra, and Introduction to Mathematical Structures. At the upper level I teach a variety of courses in Combinatorics and Abstract Algebra, including regular seminars on advanced topics in combinatorial games, enumerative combinatorics, and symmetric functions.
In my spare time I enjoy running, baking, writing, and playing games with my family.
