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Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX 77341-2206
Phone: (936) 294-1581
Fax: (936) 294-1882
Education
2004: PhD, Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
1999: BS, Mathematics, National University, Mexico
Research Interests
Algebraic Statistics, Computational Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorial Commutative Algebra
Employment
Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University (2005 - 2007)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematical Science Research Institute (Fall 2004)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (Summer 2004)
Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (Spring 2003)
Graduate Research Fellow, Physical Science Laboratory (Summer 2000)
Current Activities
Teaching MTH 163, Trigonometry (Summer 08)
Teaching MTH 032, Developmental Mathematics II (Summer 08)
Teaching MTH 470W/560 Algorithms for Elementary Algebraic Geometry (Fall 08)
Algebraic Geometry in Algebraic Statistics and Geometric Modeling (with Frank Sottile)
Small Phylogenetic Trees website. Mentioned in the SIAM News, Volume 40, Number 6, July-August 2007.
Events of Interest
Tropical Geometry Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA.
Applications of Algebraic Geometry. Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, September 2006 - July 2007.
Gröbner Bases Special Semester 2006. Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, February - July 2006.