about me: I'm a first 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.

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

teaching: math 221, calculus and analytic geometry i
previously - math 222 fall 07

coursework and seminars:
[Spring 2008]
math 752 introductory topology ii
math 762 differential topology
math 765 differential geometry
math 820 elliptic pdes
GPS Toplogy and Geometry

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