Education
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1994.
M.S., University of Notre Dame, 1991.
A.B., College of the Holy Cross, 1989.
Associate Professor, Kalamazoo College, 2002-.
Assistant Professor, Kalamazoo College, 1998-2002.
Assistant Professor, Mesa State College, 1995-1998.
Visiting Assistant Professor, John Carroll University, 1994-1995.
A Homotopical Generalisation of the Bestvina-Brady construction with
Jelena Grbic, Isabelle Laude and Elizabeth Vidaurre, Topology and
Its Applications 235 (2018) p43-53.
Selective Liberal Arts Colleges: An Overlooked Opportunity?
with David Damiano and Stephan Ramon Garcia, Notices of the AMS
May 2016 vol 63 (5), p565-570.
An Application of Group Theory to Change Ringing, with
Aileen Murphy,The College Mathematics Journal 42 (2011) no 3, p223-228.
The rank filtration and Robinson's complex
with Brenda Johnson and Randy McCarthy,
Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 212 (2008) no 4, p735-752.
Homotopical Complexity and Good Spaces, with Jeff Strom,
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society , 359
(2007) no. 2 pp687-700.
v_*-torsion Spaces and Thick Classes
with Wojciech Chacholski and William G. Dwyer,
Mathematische Annalen, 336 (2006) no. 1, pp13-26.
Model Structures on the Category of Ex-Spaces, with Mark W. Johnson,
Topology and its Applications,
119 (2002) no. 3 pp325-353.
The A-Complexity of a Space, with Wojciech Chacholski and William
G. Dwyer, Journal of the London Mathematical Society,
65 (2002) no. 2
pp204-223.
An equivariant
smash spectral sequence and unstable box product,
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
351 (1999) no. 7 pp2763-2775.
An equivariant van Kampen spectral sequence, Topology and its
Applications 79 (1997) no. 1 pp31-48.
July 2016, Some Mathematical Themes Seen Through the Lens of Topology
Grand Valley State University.
July 2015, Continuing to Think About Continuity College of the Holy Cross.
March 2015, On the Rank Filtration of the First Derivative Penn State - Altoona.
March 2014, Data, Data, Everywhere! Eastern Michigan University.
October 2013, The Shape of Data Union College.
August 2013, Some Results in Visualizing Data Bedlewo, Poland
November 2011, The Shape of Things to Come Kalamazoo College.
October 2009, The Sound of Algebra Calvin College.
July 2007, Some Remarks on A-Cellularity Polish Math Society/
American Math Society Joint Conference, Warsaw, Poland.
May 2006, Obstructions to Weak A-Cellular Inequalities
University of Chicago.
March 2006, The Sound of Algebra ,
the Leonard Sulski Memorial Lecture, College of the Holy Cross.
November 2005, Good Spaces and A-Complexity
Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland.
October 2005 An Introduction to Goodwillie Calculus
Western Michigan University.
April 2005, Some Remarks on A-Cellular Theory Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland.
September 2004, The Sound of Algebra Colorado College.
November 2003, What is Good A-Cellular Theory?, Wayne State University.
April 2003, Some Remarks on Closed Classes and Complexity
Johns Hopkins University.
October 2001, Can You Build a Mobius Band out of a Doughnut?
Hope College.
June 2001, Model Structures for Ex-Spaces
International Conference in Algebraic Topology, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
December 2000, Model Structures on the Category of Ex-Spaces
University of Chicago.
November 2000, An Artist's View of Curves and Codes
Albion College.
March 2000, The Complication of a Space University of Illinois
at Urbana Champaign.
February 2000, Calculus Plus Topology Equals... Western Michigan
University.
March 1998, Applications of an Unstable Box Product
Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany.
October 1997, Recent Trends in Mathematics Mesa State
College.
October 1996, Oh, Knots! An Elementary Look at Knot Theory
Air Force Academy.
July 1996, The Hole Truth - A Topologist's Story PROMYS
Program at Boston University.
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