My General Research Interests

My field of research is enumerative and algebraic combinatorics, with interests in rook theory, pattern-avoiding permutations, recursions, generating functions, and partition theory.

My Ph.D. was conferrred on June 18th, 2006 from the University of California, San Diego.

Thesis: A General Rook Model For Product Formulas & Poly-Stirling Numbers

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jeff Remmel , UC, San Diego

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My CV

My current CV as of 03/11/2009.

CV - .pdf version

CV - .ps version

My Publications

• Augmented Rook Boards and General Product Formulas - .pdf, .ps
  • Published in Elec. J. of Comb. 15(1), 2008, R85
  • Co-authors: J. Remmel

My Talks

• CombinaTexas - April 19-20, 2008 at UTEP - Slides

My Erdös Number

Because I always get asked this by students who hear about Paul Erdös and get interested in this sort of thing, I did a little poking around and found that my Erdös number is 3. The lineage is as follows:

         - I have written a paper with Jeff Remmel who has an Erdös number of 2.

         - Jeff Remmel has written multiple papers with Henry (a.k.a. Hal) Kierstead who has an Erdös number of 1.

         - Hal Kierstead wrote The Dimension of Random Ordered Sets with Paul Erdös and W.T. Trotter in 1991. This paper was published in Random Structures Algorithms, 2, pages 253-275.

My Mathematical Ancestors?

As stated above, my thesis advisor is Jeff Remmel. To see who his advisor was, and who his advisor's advisor was, and so on, click here and follow the links from advisor to advisor. (This link is brought to you by the Mathematics Geneology Project run out of NDSU.)