Interests

Differential geometry. Symplectic manifolds with Hamiltonian group actions. Combinatorial aspects of equivariant cohomology and K-theory.

Awards

• Charles W. and Jennifer C. Johnson Prize, MIT, 1999
  MIT Department of Mathematics award, given to a graduate student for "an outstanding research paper accepted for publication in a major journal."

Grants

• Research Development Grant, Penn State University, 2003-2005;
• Travel Grant, American Institute of Mathematics, August 2004;
• US Junior Oberwolfach Fellow Grant, NSF, April 2004;
• VIGRE Gibbs Instructorship, Yale, 2000-2003;
• Travel Grant, Fields Institute of Mathematics, June 2001;
• Travel Grant, AMS, August 2000;
• Clay Mathematics Institute Liftoff Program, 2000
• Alfred P. Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, MIT, 1999-2000;