Professional Activities

Professional Interests

Honor's Thesis Advisor for Jennifer Sargent (1993): Real and p-adic continued fractions.
Faculty advisor for SMALL REU-NSF undergraduate summer research programs in number theory, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2010.
Research Advisor for Chris Kollett and Colin Blakely (summer 1994); Daniel Lucky (fall 1995, U.T. Austin); Jonathan Todd (summer 1995); Brian Wecht (winter 1996).
Honor's Thesis Advisor for Jonathan Todd (1996): Diophantine Analysis
Honor's Thesis Advisor for Kariane Calta (1998): Asymptotics on generalized Zeckendorff decompositions
Honor's Thesis Advisor for Heath Dill (1998): On a theorem of Wall
Honor's Thesis Advisor for Mimi Huang (1998): The geometry of numbers and parallelograms in the plane
Honor's Thesis Advisor for Rungporn Roengpitya (2001): An improvement to Legendre's theorem from diophantine approximation
Honor's Thesis Advisor for Charles Samuels (2002): On Solutions to the Generalized Pell Equation with Applications to Diophantine Approximation
Honor's Thesis Advisor for Kari Lock (2004): Identifying best rational approximations through sharp Diophantine inequalities
Honor's Thesis Advisor for Ashok Pillai (2005): On diophantine approximation along algebraic curves
Honor's Thesis Advisor for Nicholas Yates (2006): Diophantine Approximation through Nonsimple Continued Fractions and Planar Curves

Mathematics External Review, Davidson College, 2009.
Member, Editorial Board, Math Horizons Magazine.
Mathematics External Review, Fordham University, 2007.
Member, External Review Committee, Mathematics Program, Weston School District, Weston, MA, 2007.
Member, Mathematical Association of America CUPM Subcommittee on Undergraduate Research, 2006-present.
Member of the Board of Trustees, The Educational Advancement Foundation.
Member, Editorial Board, AK Peters, Ltd.
Associate Editor of The American Mathematical Monthly.
Member of the AMS Committee on Committees.
MAA Program Committee Member, AMS-MAA Joint Meetings, January, 2002.
Chair of the Program Committee, MAA National Summer Meeting (Mathfest), August, 2001.
MAA NExT Consultant, 2000-2001.
Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications, Advisory Panel Member.
Science Curriculum External Reviewer, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, June 2000.
Keynote Invited Address, AMS-MAA-SIAM Meeting, Washington, DC, January 2000.
Contributing writer, National Public Radio's ECO-Essays Series, fall 1999.
Awarded a grant from the Educational Advancement Foundation, 1999.
AMS Invited Special Session Speaker, March 1999.
Program Chair for the Northeastern MAA Fall 1997 Conference.
Delivered Invited Address, MAA MathFest, August, 1997.
Awarded a two year grant from the Educational Advancement Foundation, 1997-1998.
Delivered AMS-MAA Invited Address, August, 1996.
M.A.A. Visiting Lecturer 1994-1997.
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