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| office | 618 Van Vleck |
| phone | 608 262 0177 |
I'm a second year graduate student in the mathematics department at the University of Wisconsin. Prior to graduate school I was a programmer; first at Raven Software, where I worked on multiplayer gameplay and Xbox 360 tech, and then for the Mitchell Lab where we developed GPU accelerated computational biology software. In the summer of 2009 I had the great pleasure of working with a hugely talented group of people in Seattle, WA.
I have yet to penetrate the dark, murky, occult corridors of modern mathematics and formulate an intimidating research statement. I do know that I enjoy topology and geometry. I fantasize about using cohomology, long exact sequences and the five lemma to solve a problem on planetary orbits.
I'm a volunteer sailing instructor at the Hoofer Sailing Club, where you can learn to sail a wide variety of boats for a ridiculously low fee.
If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be William S. Massey's A Basic Course in Algebraic Topology.
I am intended to serve as a textbook for a course in algebraic topology at the beginning graduate level. The main topics covered are the classification of compact 2-manifolds, the fundamental group, covering spaces, singular homology theory, and singular cohomology theory. These topics are developed systematically, avoiding all unecessary definitions, terminology, and technical machinery. Wherever possible, the geometric motivation behind the various concepts is emphasized.
Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test