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)
    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 is defending his thesis in 2012 on the F-signatures of algebras of prime characteristic (and pairs). He has nice results particularly in the toric case. Here's Michael and my daughter Helena on a hike with us in Finland.

  • Sarah Mayes has been computing asymptotic multiplier ideals of interesting graded systems of ideals cooked up from the generic initial ideals of powers (or symbolic powers) of ideals of certain projective varieties. She has some conclusive results in the complete intersection case and has many intriguing results and observations for collections of points in the plane. She is likely to defend in 2013.

    I am also a surrogate advisor for Andrey Mishchenko, who currently works on circle packing; he is officially advised by Jeffrey Lagarias but is very independent. Here's me and my Buddy when he was but a youngster, back in 2008.