Current Teaching

Currently (Winter 2009), Matthew is teaching section 102 of Math 100. Information for this course can be found here.

Academic History

Matthew completed his undergraduate studies, obtaining an Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in the field of Mathematics, at Simon Fraser University, which is located in Burnaby, British Columbia. He went on to obtain his Masters degree in the area of Algebraic Combinatorics from the University of British Columbia, under the supervision of Stephanie van Willigenburg. At the moment, he is completing the first year of his PhD studies at the same institution and with the same supervisor (Why mess with a good thing?) and expects to graduate in 2009.

Theses, Papers, and Talks

Here are links to my Masters Thesis, papers I've worked on, as well as talks I've given.

Masters Thesis: Caterpillars, Ribbons, and The Chromatic Symmetric Function

Papers:

The Chromatic Symmetric Function of Symmetric and Near-Symmetric Caterpillars
On the Chromatic Symmetric Function of a Tree, with Jeremy L. Martin and Jennifer D. Wagner.

Talks: Ribbon Diagrams and the Chromatic Symmetric Function, given at the First Annual Graduate Student Combinatorial Conference, which was held at the University of Minnesota during April '05.

Current Research

Matthew is currently finishing work on a joint paper with Jeremy Martin and Jennifer Wagner (listed above), which goes beyond the results pertaining to the chromatic symmetric function that he was able to obtain during his Masters work. More information about this problem can be found on a webpage of Li-Yang Tan, located here.

For his PhD work, Matthew has begun to look at equalities among skew Schur functions when they are restricted to finitely many indeterminates. The results of which will offer insights into areas such as representation theory and algebraic geometry.

Conferences

Matthew participated in the 2005 GSCC, which was located at the University of Minnesota.
Matthew will be giving a poster presentation in the upcoming FPSAC 2006 conference, to be held at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San Diego.

Teaching

During the Winter term of 2004, Matthew taught a section of Math 184 (Differential Calculus for Social Science and Commerce) at the University of British Columbia. Matthew does intend to do more teaching as the years go on, though for now he is preoccupied with his current research.

Contact Information

Email: mjmorin at math dot ubc dot ca (reformatted to confuse nasty web robots)
Office #: AA 123
Office Location: Matthew's office lies in the Auditorium Annex, which is located immediately West of UBC's Mathematics Building.
Mail: Mail may be sent to my mailbox, located in UBC's Mathematics Building at:

Department of Mathematics The University of British Columbia Room 121, 1984 Mathematics Road Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z2
Phone #: 604-822-4631
(Note: The above phone number is a shared phone among math graduate students in the Auditorium Annex, and not a personal office phone.)

Matthew Morin