About me

I am currently a postdoc in Bernd Sturmfels’s group at MPI MiS in Leipzig, Germany and
in 2025 I will join McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario as a Britton postdoctoral fellow.

I obtained my PhD from University of Minnesota in May 2024, advised by Christine Berkesch.

My CV is here, and here are some recent updates/plans:

• Spring 2025: Fields semester in Commutative Algebra and Applications in Toronto.
• Nov. 2024: Macaulay2 in the Sciences in Leipzig.
• Oct. 2024: Group actions, combinatorial methods, and Fano varieties in Innsbruck.
• Updated: Characterizing Multigraded Regularity and Virtual Resolutions on $\mathbb P^n\times\dots\times\mathbb P^m$.
• Sep. 2024: Syzygies and Hilbert Schemes in Kraków, Poland.
• Sep. 2024: School on Deformation Theory IV in Rome, Italy.
• Jul. 2024: Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry in Leipzig, Germany.
• Aug. 2022: A short resolution of the diagonal for bigraded smooth projective toric varieties. (Published in Algebra & Number Theory!)

Research

My research area is multigraded commutative algebra, particularly in the setting of toric geometry. Roughly speaking, I’m interested in using derived categories to translate the book Geometry of Syzygies to the toric setting and beyond.

Things I’ve recently thought about:

• Green’s $N_p$ conditions for subvarieties of toric varieties
• Projectivized toric vector bundles and complexity one $T$-varieties
• GIT fan and truncations of modules over Cox rings
• $F$-thickness of del Pezzo surfaces and other Mori dream spaces
• Fourier–Mukai transforms and exceptional collections in derived categories
• Beilinson monads and homological mirror symmetry
• Horrocks splitting criterion and virtual resolutions
• $K$-equivalence and $D$-equivalence

Activities

If you’d like to join or contribute to any of these activities, feel free to get in touch.

July 2025: M2 🤝 SIAM AAG

With Thomas B. and Thomas Y., we are planning a Macaulay2 workshop in Madison.

Nov. 2024: M2 in the Sciences 🧑‍🔬

With Ben, we are organizing a Macaulay2 workshop in Leipzig, Germany.

June 2023: M2Week 🧑‍💻

With Ayah, Christine, Tim, and Mike, we organized a Macaulay2 workshop and mini-school.

May 2022: GradMoCCA ☕

With Christine, Caitlyn, and Connor, we held a graduate student conference in Minneapolis.

Directed Reading Program

The Directed Reading Program is a graduate student-run program that matches undergraduates with mathematics graduate students in independent reading projects followed by presentations.

New: read about the DRP in the School of Mathematics Critical Points newsletter!

Macaulay2 Development

A main aspect of my research involves developing and implementing algorithms to study explicit examples in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. Some packages I’ve contributed to:

FGLM, LocalRings, Saturation, Truncations, VirtualResolutions, NormalToricVarieties.

Always happy to chat about Macaulay2 and learn how others use it in research.

Old News

Travel, talks, papers, et cetera:

• May 2024: I defended my dissertation on May 7th. Here are my exam materials.
• May 2024: AMS sectional meeting in San Francisco.
• Spring 2024: SLMath semester in Commutative Algebra (~2 weeks/month).
• Jan. 2024: Joint Math Meetings in San Francisco, CA.
• Dec. 2023: Iberoamerican Congress on Geometry at Pucón, Chile 🌋.
• Nov. 2023: WAGS at Washington University in St. Louis.
• Oct. 2023: AMS sectional meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.
• Sep. 2023: Syzygies and mirror symmetry at AIM.
• Sep. 2023: Macaulay2 workshop at AIM.
• 2023–24: Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from University of Minnesota
• July 2023: SIAM AAG23 in Eindhoven, NL.
• July 2023: GAeL XXX in Warwick, UK.
• June 2023: Derived Categories MRC.
• May 2023: TA at MSRI/CMND summer school.
• Apr. 2023: CA+ Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Apr. 2023: Syzygies and Regularity graduate workshop in Chicago, Illinois.
• Mar. 2023: AMS sectional meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Dec. 2022: Graduate Workshop on Birational Geometry at SCGP, New York.
• Fall 2022: AMS sectional meetings in El Paso, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Fall 2022: WAGS at UC Riverside.
• Aug. 2022: Bounds on Multigraded Regularity.
• July 2022: Derived Minischool in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• June 2022: PASCA summer school in Guanajuato, Mexico.
• Oct. 2021: Characterizing Multigraded Regularity on Products of Projective Spaces.
• June 2021: I passed my oral exam on June 16th. Here are my exam materials.
• Spring 2021: ICERM’s Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry program (virtual).
• Nov. 2020: Blog post on the AMS Capital Currents Blog.
• Dec. 2019: Blog post on the AMS Grad Blog.

Personal

I’m a fan of fermented foods, volcanoes, sewing & mending, anti-racism, biking, and backpacking.
I also like radio astronomy, anti-gerrymandering, cryptography, and privacy as a human right.