Personal Information

• Here is my academic CV.
• My wife Karen and I got married in June 2007. Check out our pictures.
• From January 2006 to January 2010, I was employed as a mathematician for the federal Canada Border Services Agency in Ottawa.
• As of March 2010, we will be living in Japan!

Research Publications

• Calibrated Confidence Scoring for Biometric Identification, accepted for the NIST International Conference on Biometric Performance (2010).
• Applications and Extensions of Cost Curves to Marine Container Inspection, Annals of Operations Research (2009) DOI 10.1007/s10479-009-0669-2.
• Proof of a Conjecture on Fractional Ramsey Numbers, Journal of Graph Theory 63 (2010) 164-178.
• Independence Polynomials of Circulants with an Application to Music, Discrete Mathematics 309 (2009) 2292-2304.
• Nordhaus-Gaddum Inequalities for the Fractional and Circular Chromatic Numbers, Discrete Mathematics 309 (2009) 2223-2232.
• Line Graphs and Circulants, to appear in Ars Combinatoria.
• Circulant Graphs Uniquely Characterized by their Independence Polynomials, to appear in Ars Combinatoria.
• The Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse Game for Paths and Cycles, Ars Combinatoria 83 (2007) 192-212.
• My Ph.D. thesis, which was defended in October 2007.

Teaching and Service

• Course notes for Math 2790, a second-year course on mathematical problem-solving (Fall 2001).
• My story of how I became a volunteer for the underprivileged: The Sunday Suppers, published in Notes from Canada's Young Activists.
• Founder and former coordinator of the Nova Scotia High School Math League.
• Founder and former coordinator of the Dalhousie Math Circles Program.
• Combinatorial Explorations, published in the CMS ATOM Series, co-written with John Grant McLoughlin.

Presentations

• Workshop on Problems Creation, for participants at the Summer Institute for Teachers of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. (Aug. 2005).
• Workshop on Combinatorics Problems, for participants at the Summer Institute for Teachers of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. (Aug. 2005).
• Keynote Presentation on Life as an Academic: Running a Different Race, at the Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Kingston. (July 2005).
• Presentation on The Million Dollar Hat Problem, for the annual Math Day at Sacred Heart School of Halifax (May 2005).
• Keynote Presentation on How Many Rectangles?, at the 2005 OAME Leadership Conference, Toronto. (Feb. 2005).
• Presentation on The Game of Fifteen and Other Fun Problems for the Dalhousie Open House Day. (Oct. 2004).
• Presentation for the Chignecto-Central Regional School Board on An Analysis of the Game of Frogs, Professional Inservice Day, Truro. (Apr. 2004).
• Workshop on Investigating Perfect Numbers, Undergraduate Seminar, University of New Brunswick. (Mar. 2004).