about me: I'm a second year graduate student and teaching assistant in the mathematics department at UW Madison. My mathematical interests lie in differential geometry and topology. Before that I spent a year as a foreign exchange student at the Technische Universität Berlin and earned my bachelors degree in mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A long time ago I went to the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. There I maintained a list of math jokes and math pick up lines. Among other things I enjoy the color purple, knitting, swimming, speaking german, vegetarian food, and travelling. This year I am helping Nick Addington run the 2009 Graduate Student Conference in Topology and Geometry. My advisor is Yong-Geun Oh.

contact:
email: nelson[at]math[dot]wisc[dot]edu
office: 822 Van Vleck
office phone: 608.262.0537
my schedule

teaching: math 171, calculus with algebra and trig i
grading: math 761, differentiable manifolds
previously - math 222, calculus i, fall 07... math 221, calculus ii, spring 08

coursework and seminars:
[Fall 2008]
math 763 algebraic geometry
math 819 pdes
math 990 reading and research
GPS Toplogy and Geometry
Geometry and Topology Seminar

previous coursework

procrastination/amusement:
friends -
comics - [PhD] piled higher and deeper...nicht lustig...the perry bible fellowship...something positive...diesel sweeties... dinosaur comics...married to the sea... xkcd
random - delicious tea - two leaves and a bud...knitting...awesome t-shirts - threadless...wikipedia... weather