A. Teaching
1. Courses Taught
(i) Undergraduate
(ii) Graduate
MAT
1100HF Core Algebra I, 3 hours per week with ?? TA hours and
?? students.
(iii) Other
3. Course and Curriculum Development
(i) Development of a new course
(ii) New preparation of an existing course
(iii) New pedagogical methods introduced
4. Course and Curriculum Delivery/Management
(i) Ongoing innovative methods in specific courses
All my classes have a wiki-style web page that allows for lively
student participation.
(ii) Course and program management
5. Other
B. Research Supervisions
(i) Undergraduate
Qin Deng, undergraduate working on combinatorial number theory and
dynamical systems since February 2011, at ?? supervision hours per
month.
(ii) New and Continuing Masters
(a) Primary supervisions
Iva Halacheva, working on Lie bialgebras, at 1 supervision hour
per month.
(b) Supervisory committee memberships
(iii) New and Continuing PhD
(a) Primary supervisions.
- Peter Lee, working on the quadraticity of the virtual braid group since May 2006 at 8 supervision hours per month.
- Zsuzsanna Dancso, working on "Kontsevich formalism for knotted trivalent graphs" since September 2006 at 6 supervision hours per month.
- Karene Chu, working on "Virtual Braids" and on "Flat Knots" since May 2007 at 6 supervision hours per month.
- Oleg Chterental, working since September 2010 on simplicity quations for planar curves at 6 supervision hours per month.
(b) Supervisory committee memberships
All of the above plus Trefor Bazett, Bruce Fontaine, Jesse McKeown, and Lucy Zhang.(iv) Completed Graduate Theses/Degrees
(v) Research Associates/Postdoctoral Fellows/Professional Assistants
Daniel
Moskovich, postdoctoral fellow at 3 supervision hours per week.
(vi) Other
C. Scholarly Work in Progress
- Finite Type Invariants of w-Knotted Objects: From Alexander to Kashiwara and Vergne, no co-authors, first listed 2009, 2 pages written this year, anticipated completion April 2012 at 150 pages as an article/monograph.
- Homomorphic Expansions for Knotted Trivalent Graph, with Zsuzsanna Dancso, 23 pp. article first listed this year, completed and submitted for publication.
D. Scholarly Publications
1. Accepted (not yet published)
- Some Dimensions of Spaces of Finite Type Invariants of Virtual Knots, with Iva Halacheva, Louis Leung, and Fionntan roukema, 8 pp. article, accepted in 2010 for publication as is at Experimental Mathematics (refereed).
- Pentagon and Hexagon Equations Following Furusho, with Zsuzsanna Dancso, 7 pp. article, accepted in 2010 for publication as is at Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (refereed).
2. Published - refereed
3. Published - non-refereed
G. Patents, Disclosures, Other Professional Designs
H. Creative Professional Activities
I. Current Grants and Contracts
- Knot Theory and Algebra, Discovery NSERC grant, starting April 2008 and ending March 2013 at total of $140,000 with no co-investigators.
- Knot Theory and Algebra, Discovery Accelerator Supplement (NSERC) starting April 2009 and ending March 2012 at total of $120,000 with no co-investigators.
J. Honours
K. University Service
(i) Department
I am my department's graduate coordinator this year.(ii) College
(iii) Faculty
I was a member of the Faculty of Arts and Science Connaught Committee.
(iv) University
(v) Other
L. External Professional Service
- Founding editor of The Knot Atlas.
- Founding Contributor to KnotTheory`, a computer knot theory package.
- Refereed about ?? papers this year and about ?? grant proposals.
M. Outreach Service
N. Other
Z.
My merit to do list.