OLD homepage (grad school)

My Basics (circa 2005)

I am a graduating student at the University of Chicago, supervised by Alex Eskin, and also by Howie Masur (UIC) and Benson Farb.
This year, I am supported by an AAUW Dissertation Fellowship.
This just in!... Next year, I'll be a postdoc at UC Davis.
I'm going to spend the month of January (or so) visiting Lausanne and Geneva.

Fields of interest: Teichmuller theory, hyperbolic geometry and low-dimensional topology, ergodic theory, geometric group theory, rational billiards

Current research: a thin triangle property for Teichmuller space; a "multiplicative" ergodic theorem for the mapping class group

PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR INFORMATION
(email address above)

Beautiful Things

Sugimoto's
"stereometric models"
slideshow
(NY Times)

McMullen's
gallery

Sequin's
sculptures

This section in progress...

Upcoming

I'm speaking at

the Joint Meetings in Atlanta:
"An Ergodic Theorem for Random Walks on the Mapping Class Group" in the session Dynamics of Mapping Class Groups on Moduli Spaces, II
Sat, Jan 8, 2005, 5:30pm
Williams College, 1/26/05
UIC (AWM chapter meeting), 1/28/05
UT-Austin Topology Seminar, 2/7/05
Pomona College, 2/16/05
Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium, in the workshop on WP geometry, U of Michigan, 5/19-20/05

Preprints and expository writing

---Please email me to get copies of these.---

Research:

Thin triangles in Teichmuller space,	preprint
+ A multiplicative ergodic theorem for the mapping class group,	in progress
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Geodesics track random walks in Teichmuller space,	dissertation project

Ultrametric spaces are negatively curved, in progress

Expository:
-the Oseledec theorem;
-isospectral domains;
-survey: curvature by comparison geometry

Workshops

(attended as a participant)

Weil-Petersson geometry at Utah
Teichmuller dynamics and rational billiards at CIRM (Luminy, France)
Random walks at the Schrodinger Institute (Vienna)
Ergodic theory, rigidity, and number theory at the Newton Institute (Cambridge, England)

Teaching

At U Chicago, I've been the principal instructor for the following courses:
Math 19500-19600 (Lin Alg-Multivar Calc), Math 15100-15200 (Calculus), Math 11200 (Studies in Mathematics)

The University assembles evaluations pages from some of our courses. Here are all the pages available from my classes, re-linked so you don't need a U of C password: 112 (Fall '02), 152 (Winter '02), 151 (Fall '01)

I co-taught a summer course for undergraduates on "The Mathematics of Billiards" on a Focused Research Grant from the NSF

I've also co-taught an introductory Gender Studies course and have been involved in a number of community outreach teaching programs.

Last updated 3/23/05.