I am a Ph.D. candidate in commutative algebra at Dalhousie University. My supervisor is Sara Faridi. I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Waterloo and my masters degree at Dalhousie University (cf., my CV).

Teaching

For a detailed account of my teaching experience, see my teaching statement.

• Math 2030, Linear Algebra I, Summer 2008.
• Combinatorics & Commutative Algebra Seminar.

Research

I'm interested in commutative algebra and combinatorics. Specifically, I study free resolutions of monomial ideals, Hilbert functions, and their connections to graphs, posets and simplicial complexes.

• Publications and talks.

Activities

• EdgeIdeals package for Macaulay2. This package brings graphs and hypergraphs into computations in commutative algebra.
• A package called gfanInterface2 is in the final stages of development. It can be fetched from the svn repository by the command
  svn export svn://svn.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2/development/gfanInterface2.m2
  This package connects Macaulay2 to gfan by Anders Jensen for computations in tropical geometry.
• I also like to participate in NS Math Circles and the NS Math League.