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I am a fourth year PhD student in mathematics at the University of Chicago. My advisor is Alex Eskin. I received my bachelors degree from the University of Waterloo, where I did research with Ken Davidson and Kathryn Hare. You can reach me at alexonlinemail at g-mail.

I am currently partially supported by an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, and I have previously been supported by an NSERC Julie Payette Research Scholarship and three NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards.

Preprints

Schwarz triangle mappings and Teichmüller curves I: abelian square-tiled surfaces.
Schwarz triangle mappings and Teichmüller curves II: the Veech-Ward-Bouw-Möller curves.
Sums of Adjoint Orbits and L^2--Singular Dichotomy for SU(m), Adv. in Math. 2011.
Operator Algebras with Unique Preduals (with Ken Davidson), Canad. Math. Bull. 2011.
Regular Orbital Measures on Lie Algebras, Colloq. Math. 2008.


Not for Publication

Smillie's Theorem on closed SL_2(R) orbits of quadratic differentials (with Ilya Gekhtman).
Topic Proposal: Translation surfaces and Teichmüller theory.


Undergraduate Projects

Beurling's Theorem
The Conjugacy Theorems
Convolution of Volume Measures
Homotopy Groups of Spheres: A Very Basic Introduction
The Poincare-Hopf Theorem (with Kael Dixon)
Sard's Theorem
Sperner's Lemma and Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
Transcendence Degree


Last updated: March 2012.