About Me
I am an assistant professor at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. I grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts, nestled in the foothills of the Berkshires. I studied a lot of math at Smith College while I was in high school there, particularly discrete mathematics. Then I went to Harvard-Radcliffe, where I eventually wrote an undergraduate thesis in homotopy theory with Joe Harris and Mike Hopkins. I received my Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton University in June, 2003, under the supervision of Bob MacPherson at the Institute for Advanced Studies. (This page will tell you a bit about what that was like.) I was a Clay Liftoff scholar in the summer of 2003, then a VIGRE-Hildebrandt Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for the subsequent year, and finally an NSF postdoctoral scholar and Hildebrandt Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. In the summer of 2007, I moved to Iowa City and became an assistant professor in the mathematics department at the University of Iowa.
In my spare time, I enjoy some or all of the following: jogging, strolling, knitting, baking, reading trashy novels, and cats.
I keep an occasionally-updated page describing my joint project with Marshall Poe.