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Expertise
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Work
Work
With Pamela E. Harris, Bethany Kubik, and Aba Mbirika, "Lattice Point Visibility on Generalized Lines of Sight," The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 125, No. 7 (2018), pgs. 593-601.
"Three Questions: The Journey of One Black Mathematician," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 65, No. 2 (2018), pgs. 144-147.
With Asamoah Nkwanta, "Riordan Matrix Representations of Euler's Constant $\gamma$ and Euler's Number $e$," International Journal of Combinatorics, Vol. 2016 (2016), Article ID 8324150, 9 pgs.
With Talitha Washington, "On the Generalized Climbing Stairs Problem," Ars Combinatoria, Vol. CXVII (October 2014), pgs. 183-190.
With Alejandra Alvarado, "Arithmetic Progressions on Conic Sections," International Journal of Number Theory. Vol. 9, No. 6 (2013), pgs. 1379-1393.
With Jing Ma, Susan Margulies, and Illya V. Hicks, "Branch Decomposition Heuristics for Linear Matroids," Journal of Discrete Optimization. Vol. 10, Issue 2 (May 2013), pgs. 102 - 119.
With Talitha Washington, "The Area of the Surface Generated by Revolving a Graph About Any Line," PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies, Vol. 23, Issue 2 (2013), pgs. 121-132.
With Kevin Mugo, "Points on Hyperbolas at Rational Distance," International Journal of Number Theory, Vol. 8, No. 4 (2012), pgs. 911-922.
"Semi-Magic Squares and Elliptic Curves," Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 22 (2010), no. 2, pgs. 102 - 107.
With Talitha Washington, “Sphere-of-Influence Graphs,” Wolfram Demonstrations Project. (February 4, 2010)
With Talitha Washington, "A Tasty Combination: Multivariable Calculus and Differential Forms," The Pentagon: The Journal of Kappa Mu Epsilon, Fall 2009, pgs. 11-28.
"Palindromes in Different Bases: A Conjecture of J. Ernest Wilkins," INTEGERS: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory, Vol. 9 (2009), pgs. 725-734.
Florian Luca and Alain Togbe, "On the Diophantine Equation $x^2 + 2^{\alpha}5^{\beta}13^{\gamma} = y^n$,” Algorithmic Number Theory Seminar (ANTS-VIII); LCNS 5011 (2008), pgs. 430-442.
With Alain Togbe, "On Pythagorean Quadruplets," International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 35 (2007), no. 3, pgs. 363 - 372.
With Davin Maddox, "Heron Triangles via Elliptic Curves," Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 36; (2005), no. 5, pgs. 1511 - 1526.
"Icosahedral $\mathbb Q$-curve Extensions," Math Research Letters 10 (2003), no. 2-3, pgs. 205-217.
"A Ternary Algebra with Applications to Binary Quadratic Forms," Council for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. IV; Contemp. Math. 284 (2001), pgs. 7-12.
"Artin's Conjecture and Elliptic Curves," Council for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. III; Contemp. Math. 275 (2001), pgs. 39 - 51.
With Mel Currie, "The Fractional Parts of $\dfrac nk$," Council for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. III; Contemp. Math. 275 (2001), pgs. 13 - 31.
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Education
Education
Stanford University
Ph.D., MathematicsCalifornia Institute of Technology
B.S., Mathematics and Physics -
Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
American Mathematical Society (AMS) Committee on Meetings and Conferences, 2018-2021
Arizona Winter School (AWS) Advisory Board, 2018-present
Initiative for Mathematics Learning by Inquiry (MLI) Board of Directors, 2017-2020
Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Committee on Graduate Students (Chair), 2017-2020
Preparing Undergraduates through Mentoring toward PhD's (PUMP), Advisory Board, 2017-present
American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) Human Resources (HR) Board, 2016- 2019
Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics, 2016-2019
Research Experiences for Undergraduate Faculty (REUF), Advisory Board, 2015-present
Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS), Diversity Committee, 2015-present
Purdue University, Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award, 2011
National Association of Mathematicians, Claytor-Woodard Lecture, 2011
MAA-NAM David Blackwell Lecture, 2009
Black Issues in Higher Education, "Emerging Scholar of the Year”, 2004