Research

My research interests are in Functional Analysis, particularly the geometry of infinite dimensional Banach spaces. My dissertation involved the construction of a hereditarily indecomposable Banach space which behaves, in some sense, like Hilbert space. Recently, I have become interested in the application of descriptive set theoretic methods to study universal properties of Banach spaces.

Papers

VCU Analysis Seminar

Colloquium Series

VOTCAM

Seminar and Colloquium Calendar

Teaching

Blackboard

Previous Classes

Background

I grew up as an army brat living in Maryland, Hawaii, New York, North Carolina, Germany, Massachusetts and Alabama (in reverse order). Eventually we ended up at Ft. Meade Maryland where I attended high school. For college, I went to St. Mary's College of Maryland graduating in 2002 with my degree in mathematics. After St. Mary's, I went straight on to graduate school at the University of South Carolina, where I earned my Ph.D in August of 2006, studying under George Androulakis. My first academic position was at Amherst College where I was a Visiting Assistant Professor. Since August 2007 I have had a tenure-track position in the mathematics department here at Virginia Commonwealth University. My wife Rachel works at the University of Richmond in communications and together we have three-year-old son Gabriel.