Education:

• The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX: 9/93-8/00
• Ph.D. in pure mathematics
• Thesis: Essential surfaces after Dehn surgery
• Advisor: Cameron McA. Gordon
• International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Trieste, Italy: 10/92-8/93
• Audited diploma course in pure mathematics
• The British School

Udine, Italy: 7/93
• Cambridge Certificate for Teaching English as a Foreigh Language to Adults (CTEFLA)
• Brown University

Providence, RI: 9/87-5/91
• BA in mathematics
• Facultés de Sciences et des Lettres, Université de Nice

Nice, France: 9/89-6/90
• Junior Year Abroad Program
• Mathematics at the Licence and Maîtrisse level
• Comparative and Franco-African Literature at the DEUG level
• Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific

Victoria, BC, Canada: 9/85-5/87
• Selected to attend international school on full scholarship
• International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma (bilingual)
• University of Toronto Book Award
• Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) - Unidad Estado de México

Tlalnepantla, Estado de México, Mexico: 9/83-5/85
• High School Diploma in the Bicultural Program

Relevant Experience:

• Assistant Professor

St. Edward's University:
• Fall 2000:

Intro. to College Algebra (3 sections),  Discrete Mathematics.
• Spring 2001:

Intro. to College Algebra (2 sections), Precalculus, Topology.
• Fall 2001:

Intro. to College Algebra (2 sections), Geometry for Elementary School Teachers, Discrete Mathematics.
• Assistant Instructor

The University of Texas at Austin:
• Fall 1997:

Pre-Calculus Instructor (3 sections)
• Fall 1998:

Saturday Morning Math Group Organizer.
• Teaching Assistant

The University of Texas at Austin: Fall 1993 - Fall 1996
• Differential Equations (twice), Vector Calculus (twice), First semester "Business Calculus", Second semester "Engineering Calculus", Summer Provisional Program (Algebra)
• Graduate Reseach Assistant

The University of Texas at Austin: Spring 1998,  Summer 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Summer 2000

Graduate Course Work:

• Fall 1993
• Point Set Topology - Dr. Robert Gompf
• Real Analysis - Dr. William Beckner
• Groups and 3-manifolds - Dr. Cameron Gordon
• Fall 1994
• Theory of Normal Surfaces - Dr. Cameron Gordon
• Algebraic Topology - Dr. Gary Hamrick
• Algebra - Dr. David Saltman
• Spring 1995
• Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds - Dr. Patrick Callahan
• Algebraic Topology - Dr. Gary Hamrick
• Algebra - Dr. David Saltman
• Summer 1995
• Conference Course in Differential Topology - Dr. Robert Gompf
• Fall 1995
• Automorphisms of Surfaces - Dr. John Luecke
• Knot Theory - Dr. Patrick Callahan
• Supervised Teaching in Mathematics - Dr. Michael Starbird
• Spring 1996
• Basic Drawing Techniques for Non-Art Majors - Dr. Rebecca Brooke
• Geometric Topology - Dr. Cameron Gordon
• Conference Course in Geometry and Topology - Dr. Patrick Callahan
• Summer 1996
• Conference Course in Differential Topology - Dr. Patrick Callahan
• Fall 1996
• Arithmetic Aspects of Hyperbolic 3-manifolds - Dr. Alan Reid
• Conference Course in Geometry and Topology - Dr. Cameron Gordon
• Conference Course in Geometry and Topology - Dr. John Luecke
• Fall 1997
• Varieties of Group Representation - Dr. Cameron Gordon
• Four Manifolds - Dr. Robert Gompf
• Dissertation work - Dr. Cameron Gordon
• Spring 1998
• Dissertation work - Dr. Cameron Gordon
• Fall 1998
• Dehn Surgery - Dr. Cameron Gordon
• Applied Knot Theory - Dr. Isabel Darcy
• C++ Programming - Glenn Downing
• Spring 1999
• Dissertation work - Dr. Cameron Gordon
• Introduction to 3-manifolds - Dr. Cameron Gordon (audit)
• Summer 1999
• Dissertation work - Dr. Cameron Gordon
• Fall 1999
• Dissertation work - Dr. Cameron Gordon
• Spring 2000
• Dissertation work - Dr. Cameron Gordon
• Summer 2000
• Dissertation work - Dr. Cameron Gordon

Presentations:

• Talk: Incompressible surfaces of genus >1 after Dehn surgery (25th Cascade Topology Seminar, Portland, OR) May 2000
• Talk: Punctured surfaces in knot complements (USC Geometric Topology Seminar, Los Angeles, CA) May 2000
• Talk: Dehn surgery and punctured incompressible surfaces (Pomona College Topology Seminar, Claremont, CA, 3 talks) April, 2000
• Poster: Incompressible surfaces of genus >1 after Dehn surgery (YMN Poster Session, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, D.C.) January, 2000
• Talk: Essential surfaces and Dehn surgery: Preliminary Report (Fourth International Joint Meeting of the AMS and the Sociedad Matemática Mexicana, Denton TX) May, 1999
• Talk: Essential laminations in Seifert fibered spaces: M. Brittenham's results (Pomona College Topology Seminar, Claremont, CA, 4 talks) April, 1997

 

Papers:

• Predicting functionally-linked proteins from gene fusion with confidence. Joint with Edward M. Marcotte. Submitted to: Applied Bioinformatics
• Incompressible surfaces of genus >1 after Dehn surgery: Asymptotic slope distances. In preparation.

Conferences Attended:

• Texas Geometry and Topology Conference

Texas A&M, College Station, November 1994
• Workshop on Groups and 3-dimensinal Manifolds

University of Montreal, June 1995
• Workshop on Knots and 3-manifolds

MSRI, August 1996
• Southern California Topology Conference

UCSB, February 1997
• Workshop on Computational and Applied Methods in 3-dimensional Topology

MSRI, March, 1997
• 21st Spring Lecture Series (on Dehn Surgery)

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, April 1997
• 18th Cascade Topology Conference & 14th Workshop in Geometric Topology

Oregon State Univerisity, Corvallis, Oregon, June 1997
• Georgia Topology Confernce (on Laminations and Foliations)

The University of Georgia at Athens, July/August 1997
• III Joint Meeting of the AMS/SMM

Oaxaca, Mexico, December 1997
• Laminations and Foliations in Dynamics, Geometry and Topology

SUNY, Stony Brook, May 1998
• KirbyFest - Conference in Honor of Robion Kirby's 60th Birthday

MSRI, June 1998
• AMS Sectional Meeting

The University of Texas at Austin, October 1999
• Joint Mathematics Meetings

Washington, DC, January 2000
• 25th Cascade Topology Seminar

Portland, OR, May 2000
• 2001 Georgia International Topology Conference

Athens, GA, May 2001
• Workshop on Groups and 3-Manifolds

Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada, June 2001
• Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference

The University of Texas at Austin, March 2002
• MAA Texas Section Annual Meeting

Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX, April 2002

Professional Associations:

• American Mathematical Society
• Mathematical Association of America
• Association for Women in Mathematics
• Sociedad Matemática Mexicana
• Young Mathematicians Network

Awards:

• University of Toronto Book Award, 1987
• David Burton, Jr. Graduate Fellowship, UT Austin: 1994
• Edward and Alice Dodd Teaching Excellence Award, UT Austin: 1996/97
• Graduate Research Assistantship, UT Austin: Spring 1998, Summer 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Summer 2000
• Nominated by Mathematics Department to membership in the MAA and AWM, UT Austin: 1999 and 2000
• Presidential Excellence Summer Grant, St. Edward's University, Summer 2001

Languages:

• English (native speaker)
• Spanish (native speaker)
• Italian (fluent)
• French (fluent)