I graduated with my Ph.D. in May, 2000 from the University of Kansas under the direction of Craig Huneke. I was a Clay Mathematics Institute Liftoff mathematician for Summer 2000, I recently completed three years as a VIGRE Postdocal Fellow at Rutgers University, and now I am faculty at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.

My main interest is commutative algebra. Including properties of initial ideals of prime ideals, computing integral closure and more recently I've begun thinking about Gorenstein dimension, local cohomology and D-modules. I am working on Macaulay2 (I implemented integral closure of affine reduced rings and I am working on an alternate algorithm. I am also assisting with the documentation) and I am interested in combinatorics and algebraic geometry.

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