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My mathematical interests include symplectic geometry, toric geometry, and Poisson geometry. I am studying Hamiltonian actions on symplectic and Poisson manifolds under Dan Burns.

I'm the only person at Michigan interested in these things, so I'm starved for people to talk math to. If you have any questions or thoughts about what I work on, we should talk!

I also have a hobby of extending famous results about 4-dimensional symplectic manifolds to the case of 5-dimensional symplectic manifolds. My friends do not find this as amusing as I do.

I was accosted in a coffeeshop on two separate occasions by someone telling me that the diagrams I was looking at remind them of certain mystic Hindu symbols and that I really should start doing yoga. So it seems that minimal models of toric threefolds have unexplored applications in finding yoga partners.

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