Graduate Students in Chronological Order

The current extended Family April 2008

  • Will Traves (1998, University of Toronto)
    Thesis: Differential Operators and Nakai's Conjecture and other old stuff
    Traves first job was at as an NSERC post-doc at Berkeley. He is now full 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's first job was a post-doctoral position at the University of Essen, working in Esnault and Viehweg's algebraic geometry group. He now hold's Germany's very prestigious Heisenberg Fellowship, and recently accepted a professorship at Mainz.
    Here we are at a conference for my own advisor Mel Hochster 's 65-th birthday, August 2008, and in January 2011 on a hike at Luminy, Marseilles France.

  • 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)
    PhD Thesis: Jet Schemes and Truncated Wedge schemes.
    Cornelia spent a year as a post-doc at the University of Kentucky, and is now a tenure track Assistant Professor at SUNY Potsdam. Here we are at Mel's conference and then later with some academic siblings at a party at my house for Mel's birthday.

  • Yogesh More (2008, University of Michigan)
    PhD Thesis: Arc Valuations on Smooth Varieties.
    Yogesh is an Assistant Professor at the college of Old Westbury, SUNY, after first completing a post-doc at the University of Missouri.
    Here we are in my kitchen at Yogesh's graduation party, and at the milkshake party with Andrey, Tapio and Helena.

  • Kevin Tucker (2010, University of Michigan)
    Thesis: Jumping Numbers and Multiplier Ideals on Algebraic Surfaces, the winner of the SUMNER MEYERS PRIZE for our department's best 2010 thesis.
    Instructor and NSF post-doc, Princeton
    Check out some of his work or Halloween 2008 on my front porch.

  • Daniel Hernandez (2011, University of Michigan)
    PhD thesis: F-purity of hypersurfaces
    Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota,
    Here's Daniel on Halloween in front of my house with his girlfriend and my academic sister Emily Witt, a powerful mathematician herself.

  • Chelsea Walton (2011, U Michigan)
    PhD Thesis: On Degenerations and Deformations of Sklyanin Algebras
    Moore Instructor and NSF post-doc, MIT
    Chelsea's ``real advisor" is Toby Stafford. I think we make a pretty cool pair of witches.

  • Michael Von Korff (2012, U Michigan)
    PhD Thesis: The F-signature and Frobenius Splitting of Toric Varieties.
    Michael now loves his job at Reasoning Mind a Texas nonprofit that produces K12 math education software. Here's Michael and my daughter Helena on a hike with us in Finland.

  • Sarah Mayes (2013, U Michigan)
    PhD Thesis: The asymptotic Behavior of Generic intital systems.
    Sarah has accepted a position at QUEST UNIVERSITY in Canada.
    Here we are with Michael Von Korff at his defense party.

    I was also a surrogate advisor for Andrey Mishchenko, circle packer extraordinaire, who defended summer 2012; he was officially advised by Jeffrey Lagarias but is very independent. Here's me and my Buddy when he was but a youngster, back in 2008.