Conferences Attended

 

June 2004

C*-Algebra and Quantum Information Theory Conference

Los Angeles, California

 

January 2005

AMS-MAA Joint Meetings

Atlanta, Georgia

 

April 2005

AMS Spring Western Section Meeting (Meeting #1007)

University of California- Santa Barbara

 

January 2006

AMS-MAA Joint Meetings

San Antonio, Texas

 

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

San Antonio, Texas

 

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

University of California- Santa Barbara

 

May 2005

Dissertation Defense

University of California- Santa Barbara

 

Graduate Student Seminar at University of California- Santa Barbara

 

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 University of California- Santa Barbara

 

Autumn 2004

Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets

 

Interview Talks

 

March 2005

Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets

Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas

 

April 2005

Poe and Pi

University of Tennessee at Marin

 

May 2005

Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets

Whitman College

 

May 2005

Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets

Knox College

 

January 2006

Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets

Weber State

 

February 2006

Hausdorff Distance and Convex Sets

Auburn University Montgomery

 

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 University of California- Santa Barbara.

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 London.

 

Invited Talks

 

August 2005

My Experiences as a PhD Student and the relevance of my experience at California State University- Northridge (CSUN)

California State- Northridge

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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