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updated January 2023
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- October 2023: Bacterial Growth: Not So Simple, written with John Chase appears in Mathematics Magazine.
- Fall 2023: I am teaching Math 262: Probability Theory and Math 330: Differential Equations II.
- Spring 2023: I am teaching Math 242: Modern Computational Mathematics.
- January 2023: I am teaching Math 282: Computational Geometry.
- September 2022: Value-Offset Bifiltrations for Digital Images, with Anway De and Thong Vo, was published in Computational Geometry.
- Fall Semester 2022: I am teaching Math 234: Discrete Math and Math 262: Probability Theory.
- May 2022: Computing Minimal Presentations and Bigraded Betti Numbers of 2-Parameter Persistent Homology, with Michael Lesnick, was published in the SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry.
- April 2022: Preprint of Piercing Numbers in Circular Societies, with Kristen Mazur, Mutiara Sondjaja, and Carolyn Yarnall, is available on arXiv.org.
- Spring Semester 2022: I am teaching Math 242: Modern Computational Math and Math 262: Probability Theory.
- Fall 2021: "Magic Triangles", written with Gabriel Hale and Bjorn Vogen, appeared in The Pi Mu Epsilon Journal. (preprint copy)
- Fall Semester 2021: I am on sabbatical. I'm working with Matt Richey on a computational mathematics textbook based on Math 242 at St. Olaf College.
- December 2020: Topological Data Analysis on Simple English Wikipedia Articles, with Xiaojun Zheng, was published in the PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research.
- September 2019: I gave a colloquium talk about persistent homology at Creighton University.
- August 2019: I gave four lectures on topological data analysis at the Southeastern Undergraduate Mathematics Workshop at Georgia Tech.
