A pdf version of the CV is also available.
Specialties
- Topology
- Algorithms
- Probability
- Global Analysis
- Applied Math
Areas of Interest
- (Computational) Topology and (Computational) Geometry
- Cell Complexes
- Multiscale Analysis
- Mathematical Biology
- Algorithms for High-Dimensional Data Analysis
- Randomized Algorithms
- Numerical Linear Algebra
- Inequalities
- (Stochastic or Topological) Dynamical Systems (on complexes and networks)
Education
- Mathematics Ph.D.
Duke University
May 2017, expected - Mathematics M.S.
Duke University
March 2013 - Mathematics B.A.
Princeton University
May 2011
Department Talks
- Duke Graduate Algebra Seminar
Introduction to Cofibrations and Homotopy Colimits
November 2015 - Duke Graduate/Faculty Seminar
Less Common Views of Matrices through Discrete Vector Fields and CW-Complexes
November 2015 - Duke Graduate Geometry Seminar
Discrete Morse Theory for Cell Complexes
February 2015 - Duke Mathematical Biology Colloquium
Presented background papers in the journal club
2 per semester - Duke Stochastic Reading Group
Log-Sobolev Inequalities via the Gamma_2-Calculus and the Curvature-Dimension Condition
Spring 2015, 3-parts
Teaching
- Certificate in College Teaching
Spring 2017, upon graduation - Instructor Math 111L: Lab Calculus I
Fall 2016 - Instructor Math 111L: Lab Calculus I
Fall 2015 - TA Math 112L: Lab Calculus II
Spring 2014, 2 sections - TA Math 216: Linear Algebra
Spring 2013, 2 sections - TA Math 41L: Introduction to Calculus II with Applications
Fall 2011
Service and Mentoring
- Organized a reading group in Stochastic Processes and Diffusion Operators
Fall 2015 - Math Bio Summer Workshop: mentored one student on a proposed project
Summer 2015 - Math Bio Summer Workshop: mentored one student on a proposed project
Summer 2012 - Ran the department tea for 1 week
Every Fall
Conferences and Workshops
- PCMI Summer Session: Mathematics of Data
July 2016, Park City Mathematics Institute, Utah - Joint Mathematics Meetings
January 2016, Seattle, WA - Duke Conference on Probability and Combinatorial Optimization
Spring 2015 - Southeastern Probability Conference
Spring 2015 - Bobfest:
Flows and Patterns: the Physics of Fluids, Granular Materials, and Soft Matter
October 2013
Seminars at Duke
- Mathematical Biology Seminar and Corresponding Colloquium
- Any network or collective motion related talk in the Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems
(CNCS), Physics Colloquium, or even Analysis seminars. - Machine Learning Seminar
- DNAC (Duke Network Analysis) Seminar
- iiD (Information Initiative at Duke) Postdoc Seminar
- Data Seminar
- Probability Seminar
- Graduate/Faculty Seminar
- Duke Computer Science Colloquium
Michael P. Casey 