Complete CV: [pdf]
Education
Research interests
- Combinatorial and descriptive set theory, mathematical logic, functional analysis
Papers and preprints
- A local Ramsey theory for block sequences. arXiv:1609.09016 [math.LO]. (submitted)
- Borel equivalence relations in the space of bounded operators. (accepted for publication in Fundamenta Mathematicae) [pdf]
Academic awards
- Cornell University Eleanor Norton York Award, 2015
- NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship PGS-D, 2014-2016
- Cornell University Graduate Fellowship, 2012-2013
- NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship PGS-M, 2011-2012
- NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship CGS-M, 2011 (declined: not tenable outside of Canada)
- Graduation with First Class Honours, University of Manitoba, 2011
- NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award, 2009, 2010, 2011
Invited talks
- A local Ramsey theory for block sequences (October 9, 2016, AMS Fall Sectional Meeting, Special Session on Set Theory of the Continuum, University of Denver)
- Turbulence and Essential Equivalence of Subspaces (December 6, 2015, CMS Winter Meeting, Montreal, QC) [slides]
Research talks
- MADness in vector spaces (January 6, 2017, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Atlanta, GA)
- A local Ramsey theory for block sequences (December 5, 2016, Logic Seminar, Rutgers)
- Generic pure states (November 11, 2016, Set Theory Seminar, Fields Institute)
- A local Ramsey theory for block sequences (November 1, 2016, Logic Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- A local Ramsey theory for block sequences (September 15, 2016, Set Theory and its Applications in Topology, BIRS-CMO, Oaxaca, MX)
- A local Ramsey theory for block sequences (July 26, 2016, Toposym, Prague, CZ) [slides]
- A local Ramsey theory for block sequences (July 22, 2016, Transfinite methods in Banach spaces and algebras of operators, Bedlewo, PL) [slides]
- Towards a selective Gowers dichotomy (May 25, 2016, ASL North American Annual Meeting, University of Connecticut) [slides]
- Towards a selective Gowers dichotomy (May 13, 2016, NY Graduate Student Logic Conference, CUNY Graduate Center)
- Towards a selective Gowers dichotomy (March 28, 2016, Set Theory Seminar, Fields Institute)
- Turbulence and Essential Equivalence of Subspaces (April 26, 2015, Grad Student Conference in Logic, University of Illinois at Chicago) [slides]
- Turbulence and non-classifiability of projections in the Calkin algebra (September 24, 2014, Logic Seminar, Cornell) [notes]
Selected expository talks
- Semiselective co-ideals and complete combinatorics, parts I-II (February 16 & 24, 2016, Logic Seminar, Cornell)
- Finite Dictatorships and Infinite Democracies (October 20, 2015, Olivetti Club, Cornell) (Winner: Best Olivetti, Fall 2015) [poster] [notes]
- States, Quantum Filters and Set Theory, parts I-II (April 21 & 28, 2015, Logic Seminar, Cornell)
- Metrizability of separable Frechet groups, parts I-III (November 4, 11 & 18, 2014, Logic Seminar, Cornell)
- Turbulence and Classification (September 30, 2014, Olivetti Club, Cornell) [poster] [slides]
- Set Theory and Projections in the Calkin Algebra (April 28, 2014, Grad Student Logic Workshop, Cornell) [notes]
- Diagonalize This (November 26, 2013, Olivetti Club, Cornell) [poster] [slides]
- PFA, OCA and automorphisms of P(ω)/Fin, parts I-III (November 2013, Logic Seminar, Cornell)
- MOOCs and trends in online education (March 27, 2013, Teaching Seminar, Cornell)
- Classifying classification (March 8, 2013, Olivetti Club, Cornell) [poster] [slides]
- Treeable Borel equivalence relations (February 13, 2013, Logic Seminar, Cornell)
- Countable Borel equivalence relations (February 6, 2013, Logic Seminar, Cornell)
- It's all fun and games... (September 4, 2012, Olivetti Club, Cornell) [poster] [notes]
- A crash course in topological groups (November 8, 2011, Olivetti Club, Cornell) [poster] [slides]
Teaching experience
Service activities
- Voting Member for Physical Sciences, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GPSA), Cornell (2016-present)
- Member GPSA Student Advocacy Committee (2015-present)
- Field Representative for Mathematics, GPSA (2015-2016)
- Member and GPSA Liaison to Cornell Cinema Student Advisory Board (2015-2016)
- Volunteer, Expanding Your Horizons: Exploring Math (2014, 2015)
- Co-organizer, Olivetti Club Seminar, Cornell (Spring 2013)
Professional membership