Graduate Students: Former and Current

The current extended Family April 2008

  • Will Traves (1998, University of Toronto)
    Thesis: Differential Operators and Nakai's Conjecture
    Traves first job was at as an NSERC post-doc at Berkeley. He is now an Associate Professor at the US Naval Academy.

  • Joel Rosenberg (1999, University of Michigan)
    Thesis: "Moduli of Cubic Surfaces" co-advised by Joe Harris.
    Rosenberg is currently a mathematical researcher at the Institute for Defense Analysis Center for Communications Research (IDA-CCR).

  • Uriel Scott (2000, University of Michigan)
    Thesis: Sparse Systems of Parameters for Projective Varieties
    After finishing his degree, Scott worked as a trader for the famous proprietary trading firm Susquehanna, then moved on to a 'quant' position at Mirant Atlanta (formally Southern Energy), an energy trading firm. Since July 2006, he's been doing math research with Constellation Commodities Group in Baltimore.

  • Sara Faridi (2000, University of Michigan)
    Thesis: Closure Operations on Ideals.
    Faridi was an Assistant Professor at George Washington University, then at the University of Ottawa, before solving the two-body problem and settling down at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she recently got promoted to tenure.

  • Manuel Blickle (2001, University of Michigan)
    Thesis: The intersection homology D-module in finite characteristic.
    Blickle holds post-doctoral position at the University of Essen, working in Esnault and Viehweg's algebraic geometry group.

  • Amanda Johnson (2003, University of Michigan).
    Thesis: Multiplier ideals of determinantal ideals.
    Amanda has a mathematical research position at the National Security Agency.

  • Cornelia Yuen (2006, University of Michigan)
    Thesis: Jet Schemes and Wedge Schemes of Monomial and Determinantal Varieties.
    Cornelia spent a year as a post-doc at the University of Kentucky, and is now a tenure track Assistant Professor at SUNY Potsdam.

  • Yogesh More (2008, University of Michigan)
    PhD Thesis: Arc Valuations on Smooth Varieties.
    Yogesh has accepted a post-doctoral position with the University of Missouri, working with Dale Cutkosky starting fall 2008.
    Here we are in my kitchen at Yogesh's graduation party, and at the milkshake party with Kurt Andrey, Tapio and Helena.

  • Kevin Tucker (expected 2010)
    is studying techniques for computing multiplier ideals and jumping numbers of ideal sheaves on mildly singular varieties. On rationally singular (including smooth!) surfaces, he has completely described the jumping numbers in terms of the combinatorics and simple intersection theory of the exceptional divisors, including an algorithm to compute all jumping numbers. After he finishes writing up his many observations about surfaces, he'll see what can be said in higher dimensions.

  • Daniel Hernandez is just starting out, but may wind up working on the boundary with commutative algebra, perhaps something related to tight closure.