# Awards, Grants, and Professional Affiliations

### Awards and Honors

• The John R. Hatch Class of 1925 Excellence in Teaching Award

Hamilton College, 2015

• Project NExT Fellow

Mathematical Association of America, 2015

College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2011

• Emeritus Faculty Fellow

Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2010

College of Arts and Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009

• Outstanding Qualifying Exams

Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008

• Florian Cajori Prize in Mathematics

### Grant Support

• Hamilton Class of 1966 Career Development Award

• WMC REU Research Mentor

• KUMUNUjr Co-PI

• GAANN Trainee

• Project Fulcrum Resident Scientist

• MCTP Trainee

# Recent Papers and Preprints

. Recursive strategy for decomposing Betti tables of complete intersections. arXiv:1708.05440, 2017.

. Rational combinations of Betti diagrams of complete intersections. Journal of Algebra and Its Applications 17 (05), 1850079, 2017.

. The Maximum Likelihood Degree of Toric Varieties. Journal of Symbolic Computation (online), 2017.

# Recent & Upcoming Talks

Gerrymandering: The Math Behind the Madness.
Apr 10, 2018 11:45am
Maximum Likelihood Degrees for Discrete Random Models
Aug 4, 2017 3:30pm

# Recent Posts

### Quotes in LaTeX

If you try to use regular quotation marks in $\LaTeX$, you’ll notice you get wacky quotes.

### Searcing for a LaTeX symbol

Know you want to $\LaTeX$ up a summation symbol, but don’t know the command to use? Don’t stress! Head to DeTexify and draw what you’re looking for.

### How to study for Linear Algebra exams

For math exams in general, it can be useful to form a study group to talk over problems and solutions before the exams. It’s also useful to retry problems you’ve seen on homeworks, quizzes, and writing assignments (without looking at your previous attempt or the graders’ comments) to figure out what you need to focus on studying. For specific tips about studying for Linear Algebra exams, read on!

# Teaching

Spring 2018

Students, please see Blackboard for the most up-to-date course information.

Calculus 2
Section 02 MWF 10-10:50am 104 Benedict Hall of Langvages
T 12-12:50pm 125 Kirner-Johnson Hall
Section 03 MWF 11-11:50am 104 Benedict Hall of Langvages
T 12-12:50pm 125 Kirner-Johnson Hall
Linear Algebra
Section 01 MWF 9-9:50am 201 Benedict Hall of Langvages