Educational background:
Ph.D. Mathematics, The University of British Columbia, 2006
M.Sc. Mathematics, The University of British Columbia, 2002
B.Sc. (First Class Honors) Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, 2000
Prior to joining the faculty at SFU I was a doctoral student of Dr. Michael Bennett's at UBC. My work was in the area of Number Theory, particularly elliptic curves and Diophantine equations. The main results of my thesis were a classification of rational elliptic curves with 2-torsion and bad reduction at possibly 2,3 and one other prime p, and applications of this result to generalized Fermat equations. My thesis can be found under research.
I did my master's thesis under the supervision of Dr. Dale Rolfsen in the field of Algebraic Topology and Combinatorial Group Theory. In particular, I worked on determining the "local indicability" of the finite-type Artin groups. Artin groups appear in topology as fundamental groups of the complements of certain complex hyperplane arrangements. The study of these groups has recently become a very active area of research and the work done in my thesis provides some results about the structure of these groups. My thesis can be found under research.
