Current TeachingCurrently (Winter 2009), I am teaching section 102 of Math 100. Information for this course can be found here.Academic HistoryMy first year of post-secondary education was in North Island College. From there, I transferred to Simon Fraser University where I completed my undergraduate studies, obtaining an Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in the field of Mathematics in 2003.I continued my studies at the University of British Columbia, obtaining my Masters degree in the area of Algebraic Combinatorics in 2005, under the supervision of Stephanie van Willigenburg. I have continued my graduate work at UBC with Stephanie van Willigenburg, and will complete my PhD program in April of 2010. Theses, Papers, and TalksHere are links to my Masters Thesis and papers I've worked on. Masters Thesis: Caterpillars, Ribbons, and The Chromatic Symmetric Function Papers:
Current ResearchFor my PhD thesis, I have been investigating instances of Schur-positivity among difference of certain skew Schur functions. I also inspect the threshold for which some of these differences become zero when the skew Schur functions are reduced to finitely many variables (i.e. are reduced to skew Schur polynomials). This is a weaker version of the problem of determining when two skew diagrams have the same skew Schur function. Formulae are given for computing the Littlewood-Richardson coefficients appearing in several of these Schur-positive differences. Furthermore, in certain cases the differences can be seen to be multiplicity-free. Conference Participation
Teaching
During the Winter term of 2004, I taught section 106 of Math 184 (Differential Calculus for Social Science and Commerce) at the University of British Columbia. Contact InformationEmail: mjmorin (at) math (dot) ubc (dot) caOffice: Auditorium Annex #123 Mail: Mail may be sent to my mailbox, located in UBC's Mathematics Building at: 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.) |