I am a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Iowa. I am currently studying under the advisement of Dr. Keiko Kawamuro. My mathematical interests include topology, specifically knot theory, braids, and open book decompositions.
Publications
(with Alex Zupan) The Kauffman Bracket Expansion of a Generalized Crossing, Top. Proc. 58 (2021) pp. 289-301 (E-published on May 3, 2021) [journal]
Recent Presentations
Topology Seminar- "Constructible Sheaves", April 2021
Topology Seminar- "Modular Tensor Categories", September 2020
Topology Seminar- "Symplectic Surgery", February 2020
GAUSS- "The Jones Polynomial of the Generalized Half-Twist", October 2019