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Christopher R. H. Hanusa | ||
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Employment | |
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| Starting Aug. 2008 | Assistant Professor, Queens College, Flushing, NY.
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| Aug. 2005 - May 2008 | Robert Riley Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.
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| Education | |
| Sept. 2003 - June 2005 |
Ph.D. in Mathematics,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Ph.D. Thesis: A Gessel-Viennot-Type Method for Cycle Systems and Applications to Aztec Pillows Advisor: Henry Cohn. |
| Sept. 2001 - June 2003 | M.S. in Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. |
| Aug. 1997 - May 2001 |
B.S. in Mathematics,
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA.
Thesis: A Generalized Binet's Formula for kth Order Linear Recurrences: A Markov Chain Approach Advisor: Francis Su. |
| Honors and Awards | |
| 2005 | VIGRE Fellowship, UW Department of Mathematics. |
| 2003 - 2004 | Excellence in Teaching Award, UW Department of Mathematics. |
| 2001 | Graduate School Merit Award, University of Washington. |
| 2001 - 2005 | Teaching Assistantship, UW Department of Mathematics. |
| 2001 | NSF Fellowship Honorable Mention. |
| 2000 - 2001 | MCM Competition - Outstanding, Spring 2001; Honorable Mention, Spring 2000. |
| 1998 | Freshman Mathematics Award, Harvey Mudd College. |
Papers and Talks | |
Research Interests | |
Teaching | |
Research Experience | |
| July - Aug. 2007 |
Research with James Propp (U. Mass. Lowell) by e-mail correspondence.
Freize patterns, Laurent polynomials, integer relations. |
| June 2006 |
Research with Xavier Viennot, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, Bordeaux, France.
Dyck paths, heaps and pieces, orthogonal polynomials. |
| Aug. 2005 |
Research with Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania Department of Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA.
Urn problems, multivariate generating functions. |
| Sept. 2003 - June 2005 |
Ph.D. Research with Henry Cohn, University of Washington Department of Mathematics, Seattle, WA.
Aztec pillows, domino tilings, cycle covers, matrix theory. |
| Nov. 2003 - Mar. 2004 |
Collaboration, Center For Research on Health Care, Pittsburgh, PA.
Comparing theoretically both existing and newly created utility assessments in search of a gold standard. |
| Jan. 2003 - Aug. 2003 |
Directed Reading with R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, University of Washington Department of Mathematics, Seattle, WA.
Convex optimization and transportation optimization. The traffic assignment problem. |
| Aug. 2000 - May 2001 |
Undergraduate Research, Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Department, Claremont, CA,
Fibonacci generalizations and Markov chain methods. |
| Aug. 2000 - May 2001 |
Undergraduate Research, Center for Environmental Studies, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA,
Member of a group of six students to research, analyze, and problem solve the specific goals set by our sponsor with respect to the landscaping of the Harvey Mudd Campus. |
Conferences | |
| January 6 - 9, 2008 | Joint Mathematics Meetings. San Diego, CA. |
| September 15, 2007 | Discrete Math Day at Middlebury College. Middlebury, VT. |
| February 12 - 16, 2007 | Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics. Val-Morin, Québec, Canada. |
| May 6, 2006 | Discrete Math Day at Binghamton University. Binghamton, NY. |
| June 20 - 25, 2005 | Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics. Taormina, Italy. |
| Jan. 31 - Feb. 4, 2005 | MSRI workshop on Markov Chains in Algorithms and Statistical Physics. Berkeley, CA. |
| Jan. 5 - 8, 2005 | Joint Mathematics Meetings. Atlanta, GA. |
| June 28 - July 2, 2004 | Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics. Vancouver, BC, Canada. |
| March 2004 | International Biometric Society - ENAR. Pittsburgh, PA. |
| Oct. 28, 2000 | Mt. Baldy Mathematics Conference. Claremont, CA. |
Related Activites | |
| 2006 - 2007 |
Binghamton University learning community faculty contact.
A supported-learning group for incoming freshman. Discussions on teaching, learning, and mentoring, holding office hours in the dorm, organizing workshops on succeeding in math classes. |
| May 21 - 22, 2007 | Institute for Student-Centered Learning Conference, Binghamton University. |
| 2005 - 2007 | Faculty co-sponsor of the undergraduate math club. |
| 2006 | Co-organizer of Discrete Mathematics Day at Binghamton University, May 6, 2006. |
| 2005 - 2007 | Co-organizer of the Binghamton University combinatorics seminar. |
| 2004 - 2005 | Co-organizer of the University of Washington combinatorics and geometry seminar. |
| 2005 |
Organizer of the combinatorics pre-seminar for undergraduates.
Introduction to ideas present in the combinatorics seminar for research-motivated undergraduates. |
| 2003 - 2004 |
Math Olympiad Program Co-Leader, TOPS at Seward Public School.
After-school program for fourth and fifth graders. Preparing questions, administering the Olympiad, preparing directed homework questions. |
| Referee for Annals of Combinatorics, Ars Combinatoria, Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics. | |