Conferences Attended
June 2004
C*-Algebra and Quantum Information Theory Conference
January 2005
AMS-MAA Joint Meetings
April 2005
AMS Spring Western Section Meeting (Meeting #1007)
January 2006
AMS-MAA Joint Meetings
August 2006
WSU New Faculty Retreat
The Homestead, Midway, Utah
October 2006
AMS Fall Western Section Meeting (Meeting #1019)
University of Utah
January 2007
AMS-MAA Joint Meetings
New Orleans, Louisiana
April 2007
AMS Spring Western Section Meeting (Meeting #1027)
University of Arizona
May 2009
MSRI Workshop: Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics
MSRI at UC Berkeley
March 2010
MAA Intermountain Section Meeting
Utah State University
April 2011
MAA Intermountain Section Meeting
Southern Utah University
June 2011
MAA PREP Workshop
Improving College Mathematics Teaching through Faculty Development
Talks Given
Conference Talks
January 2006
Extension of Spectral Scales to Unbounded Operators
Chair of Session on Operator Algebras
AMS-MAA Joint Meetings
March 2010
Slicing Hard-Boiled Eggs: When are Extreme Points Enough?
The notes are here.
The slides are here.
(This is an amalgamation of two talks that I gave in the Weber State Mathematics Seminar in April and November of 2008.)
MAA Intermountain Section Meeting
Utah State University
Weber State Mathematics Seminar
October 2006
A Crash Course in Functional Analysis
The notes are here.
October 2006
Why the Integral Always takes the Bus
The notes are here.
October 2006
A Ghostly Mass Measuring Device
The notes are here.
November 2007
Spaces whose finest Uniformity is Metric
The notes are here.
April 2008
An Extreme Result
The notes are here.
November 2008
Slicing Hard-Boiled Eggs
The notes are here.
September 2009
Report on the MSRI Workshop
The PowerPoint presentation is here.
The notes are here.
October 2011
Report on the PREP Workshop on Faculty Development
The PowerPoint presentation is here.
Weber States Math Majors Seminar
October 2007
Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets
December 2007
Spaces whose Finest Uniformity is Metric
November 2008
Slicing Hard-Boiled Eggs
PhD Related Talks
July 2004
Advancement to Candidacy
May 2005
Dissertation Defense
Graduate Student
Seminar at
February 2004 and February 2005
Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets
October 2004
An Introduction to Non-commutative Integration
May 2005
An Introduction to Spectral Scales
Functional Analysis
Seminar at
Autumn 2004
Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets
Interview Talks
March 2005
Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets
April 2005
Poe and Pi
May 2005
Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets
May 2005
Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets
January 2006
Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets
February 2006
Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets
Informal Panel
June 2005
An Introduction to the Job Market for Mathematics PhDs
Presented jointly with Drs. Kelly Delp, Roger Roybal, and Bill
Lyons at the invitation of Dr. Michael Crandall on behalf of the Department of
Mathematics at the
Remark: The panel consisted of Graduate Students in the
Department of Mathematics at the University of California- Santa Barbara who
had defended, or were about to defend, their dissertation. Dr. Delp is currently
at Buffalo State College. Dr. Roybal is currently at Cal State- Channel Islands. Dr.
Lyons is working in industry in
Invited Talks
August 2005
My Experiences as a PhD Student and the relevance of my experience at California State University- Northridge (CSUN)
Remark: I was invited to give this talk by Dr. Helena Noronha of CSUN to two distinct audiences. The first was a group of high school students involved in a
summer program at CSUN, while the second was addressed to graduate students in the Mathematics Department at CSUN.
Other Services to my Profession
Editor of International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (2005-present)
Joint Organizer with Dr. Roger Roybal (California State University-Channel Islands) of the Special Session on "Advances in the Spectral Theory of Operators" at the AMS Western Sectional Meeting in April 2007 at the University of Arizona.
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