Kenan Andrew Ince kenan (at) rice (dot) edu RESEARCH INTERESTS Knot theory, topology of 3 and 4-dimensional manifolds EDUCATION Ph.D. Mathematics (in progress) Rice University, Houston, TX. Fall 2011 - Present Advisors: Tim Cochran (RIP), Stefan Friedl, Andy Putman B.S. Mathematics Austin College, Sherman, TX. August 2007 - May 2011 Summa Cum Laude Honors in Mathematics RECENT TALKS AND POSTER SESSIONS Unknotting by twists (research talk) Topology Seminar University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland May 2015 Unknotting by twists (research talk) Student Seminar Universit¨ at Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany April 2015 Unknotting by twists (research talk) Topology and Geometry Seminar Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY April 2015 An Introduction to Contact Geometry Student Seminar (Organizer) Rice University, Houston, TX An Introduction to Differential Geometry Student Seminar Rice University, Houston, TX Fall 2014 Spring 2014 The Big Dehn Surgery Graph and the Link of S 3 RTG Topology Seminar Rice University, Houston, TX November 2014 Persistent Homology and Topological Data Analysis Current Mathematics Seminar Rice University, Houston, TX September 2014 RECENT William Rowan Hamilton Geometry and Topology Workshop August 25-29, 2015 CONFERENCES The Hamilton Mathematics Institute, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland ATTENDED Texas Geometry and Topology Conference November 14-16, 2014 The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Graduate Workshop on 4-manifolds Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY August 18-22, 2014 Combinatorial Link Homology Theories, Braids, and Contact Geometry ICERM at Brown University, Providence, RI August 4-8, 2014 Topology Students Workshop Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA June 9-13, 2014 (Hempelfest) 3-manifolds: Heegaard Splittings, the Curve Complex, and Hyperbolic Geometry Rice University, Houston, TX April 19-21, 2013 RESEARCH Unknotting via Rolfsen Twists AND Preprint to be submitted Summer 2015 INDEPENDENT Rice University, Houston, TX. STUDY Discrete Conformal and Discrete Quasiconformal Mappings on Ring Domains Senior Honors Thesis Mentor : J’Lee Bumpus at [email protected] Austin College, Sherman, TX. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Spring 2015 Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 Instructor Calculus I Rice University, Houston, TX. Fall 2013 Instructor Linear Algebra Rice University, Houston, TX. Summer 2015 Instructor Ordinary Differential Equations Rice University, Houston, TX. Summer 2013 Instructor Cryptography, Codebreaking, and the Mathematics of Spying Duke Talent Identification Program, Rice University, Houston, TX. Summer 2014 Teaching Assistant and Lecturer Fall 2014 Undergraduate Research Seminar in Topological Data Analysis Rice University, Houston, TX. • Students completed individual research projects in persistent homology Teaching Assistant Fall 2011-Present Geometric Topology, Multivariable Calculus, Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, Calculus II, Differential Equations Rice University, Houston, TX. SERVICE Cryptography Instructor Rice Program in Mathematics for High School Students Rice University, Houston, TX Center for Teaching Excellence Graduate Liason Graduate Student Association June 1-12, 2015 Summer 2014 - Spring 2015 Rice University, Houston, TX Math Club Instructor The Rice School/La Escuela Rice, Houston, TX Odyssey of the Mind Instructor Helms Dual Language Elementary School, Houston, TX PROFESSIONAL UNIV 501: Research in Teaching and Learning DEVELOPMENT Rice University, Houston, TX Graduate Teaching Seminar Rice University, Houston, TX Member, American Mathematical Society COMPUTER SKILLS Mathematica, Sage, LATEX, Ruby, Python, Bash October 2013 - Present October 2011 - March 2012 January 2015 - Present Fall 2011- Spring 2013 Fall 2011 - Present
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