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