ORTHO FLINT
Curriculum Vitae
(updated June 23, 2010)
| University of Western Ontario | | Phone: Office - (519) 661-2111 x 86537 |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
EDUCATION
| Spring 2007 | | Ph. D. in Mathematics,
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. |
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| | | THESIS: The
Master Array, a complete invariant for prime alternating
links |
| | | ADVISOR: Prof. Stuart A. Rankin |
| Spring 2003 | | Master of Arts (in
Mathematics), University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. |
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| | | TOPIC:
Knot theory |
| | | ADVISOR: Prof. Stuart A. Rankin |
PUBLICATIONS AND PREPRINTS
Published papers
- 1. Ortho Flint, Stuart
Rankin, and John Schermann, Enumerating the prime alternating knots
I, Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications 13 (2004),
no. 1, 57-100.
- 2. Ortho Flint, Stuart
Rankin, and John Schermann, Enumerating the prime alternating knots
II, Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications 13 (2004),
no. 1, 101-149.
- 3. Ortho Flint, Stuart
Rankin, Enumerating the prime alternating links, Journal of Knot
Theory and its Ramifications 13 (2004), no. 1, 151-173.
Preprints (only available by request)
- 4. The Master Array: A
complete invariant for prime alternating links.
- 5.
Enumerating the prime alternating links II.
- 6. Bounds on the number of minimal diagrams of a prime
alternating link.
- 7. A polynomial time algorithm for Graph Isomorphism
for most graphs.
- 8. Labelled Trees: A cycle decomposition scheme for
graphs.
- 9. An equivalent formulation of the four colour
theorem.
- 10. Assessment with BACI designs.
- 11. An algorithm for model order reduction of networks.
Work in progress
- 12. Symmetries of prime
alternating links.
- 13. Knotilus -
Links on the Web.
- 14. GI testing in polynomial time.
- 15. Graph similarity and Graph kernels.
- 16. An algorithm for cubic tiling of n-dimensional manifolds.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
- National Science and Engineering Research
Council
Canada Graduate Scholarship (Ph. D.)
2005-2007
- National Science and Engineering Research Council
Post Graduate Scholarship (Ph. D.)
2003-2004
- National Science and Engineering Research Council
Post Graduate Scholarship (Masters)
2002-2003
- Faculty of Science Graduate Student Teaching Award
The University of Western Ontario, 2005
- Faculty of Science Graduate Student Teaching
Award
The University of Western Ontario, 2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Teaching Assistant experience
Teaching Assistant for the two second year courses 222a
and 223b covering Introductory logic, set theory, functions, group
theory, coding theory, number theory, modular arithmetic and graph
theory, Fall 2004- Fall 2006
Teaching Assistant for all first year courses covering,
Calculus, Linear Algebra, Geometry, Algebra and Finite Mathematics
(Combinatorics and Probability theory), Fall 2001- Spring 2003
- Instructor for the following courses with full
responsibility
Finite math (set, counting and probability theory), Math 1228b -
Winter 2009.
Discrete Stuctures II, Math 223b -
Winter 2007.
EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT
- Attended Industrial mathematical workshops throughout 2009/2010, and worked on problems ranging from graph comparing/similarity, graph kernels to financial problems
and risk assessment.
- Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow at
the University of Western Ontario, Canada,
2010.
- Instructor: Course 1228b (Finite math) for 200+, first year social science students, Winter term 2009.
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Attended numerous Industrial mathematical workshops throughout 2008, and worked on problems ranging from semi conductor research to oncology, solving one problem in its entirety.
- Enumerated all the prime alternating knots and links at
24 crossings (around 500 billion) and enumerated all the oriented
prime alternating knots and links at 24 crossings (around 2.5
trillion) in 40 hours distributed over 40 machines, Fall 2007.
- Instructor: Course 223b (Discrete Structures II) for computer
science honour students, Winter term 2007.
- Enumerated all
the prime alternating knots and links up to 23 crossings (around
100 billion) and enumerated all the oriented prime alternating knots
and links up to 23 crossings (around 500 billion) in 19 days on a
modern desktop, Fall 2006.
- Launched the new interactive
website ``Knotilus'' for knot and link visualization and design,
Fall 2006.
- Classified the knotted molecules made from
synthetic DNA for Ned Seeman's lab at New York University, Summer
2006.
- Launched the original interactive website
``Knotilus'' for knot and link visualization and design, Summer
2003.
- Researcher in Knot theory and Graph theory at the
University of Western Ontario, Canada, Fall 2001 - present.
- Teaching Assistant at the University of Western Ontario,
Canada, Fall 2001 - Fall 2006.
- Research Associate with
Prof. Greg Reid at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, to
devise algorithms for rooted tree constructions and enumeration,
Summer 2001.
- Researcher in the Department of Applied
Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada,
unsupervised, Winter 2000.
- Researcher in the Department
of Applied Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada,
cryptography research, unsupervised, Spring and Summer 1999.
- Researcher in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the
University of Western Ontario, Canada, algorithm for mapping n-cubes
onto the plane, unsupervised, Summer 1998.
- Professional
artist in Canada living in London Ontario, in United States living
in New York, in Europe living in Budapest, Hungary.
TALKS AT MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
- June 4, 2010: Canadian Mathematical Society meeting, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada ``Graph Isomorphism Testing".
- August 8, 2008: Fields Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada``NXP Semiconductor Problem: Model Order Reduction"
Joint talk with Suzanne Shontz
- October 11, 2007: three hour talk entitled `` Knot Theory and
its Applications'' to the IEEE computer and engineering in medicine
and biology society.
- December 3, 2003: two hour talk on knot theory for the
Graduate Mathematical Physics Society
- March 25, 1999: two hour talk entitled ``Computational
Knot Theory'' to the Departments of Statistics and Applied
Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada
TALKS IN SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA
- October 2004: I gave eight talks on my research in knot theory
for the Algebra Seminar Series at U.W.O.
- December 11, 2003: one day seminar given by me entitled ``
Exploring and Enumerating Alternating Knots and Links'' at the
University of Waterloo by invitation of visiting Professor L.
Kauffman, University of Chicago.
- October 17, 2003: one hour talk on knot theory for the
Mathematics Graduate Students Colloquia.
- March 3, 2000: one hour talk on my work in knot theory, in the
seminar series on Symbolic Mathematical Computing sponsored by the
Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
- MITACS: Workshop on Financial Networks
and Risk Assesssment,
May 19-21 , 2010.
- WaterMellon Workshop on Extremal Graph Theory,
May 21-23 , 2009.
- Workshop on Quantitative Cancer Modelling: Mathematical Models, Imaging and Bioinformatics, August 25-27, 2008
- Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop (FMIPW), August 11-15, 2008
- 2008 PIMS Industrial Problem Solving Workshop, June 9-21, 2008
- The Graduate Student topology conference, Indiana
University, Bloomington, april 1-2, 2006
- ACM/IEEE SC99
Conference November 13-19, 1999 Portland, Oregon. Invited conference
participation.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- American Mathematical Society, since 2001.
- Mathematical Association of America, since 2001.
PERSONAL DATA
- Citizen: Canadian.
- Language: English, conversational French and Hungarian
REFERENCES
| Stuart Rankin (Advisor) | | Graham Denham | | Richard Kane |
| Professor | | Professor | | Professor |
| Department of
Mathematics | | Department of Mathematics | | Department of
Mathematics |
| University of Western
Ontario | | University of Western Ontario | | University of Western
Ontario |
| (519) 661-2111 x86517 |
| (519) 661-2111
x86527 | | (519)
661-2111 x86522 |
| srankin@uwo.ca |
| gdenham@uwo.ca |
| rkane@uwo.ca |
| |
| Hanan
Lutfiyya | | Mark
Daley | | Robert E.
Mercer |
| Professor | | Professor | | Professor |
| Department of Computer Science | | Department of Computer
Science | | Department of Computer Science |
| University of Western Ontario | | University of Western
Ontario | | University of Western Ontario |
| (519) 661-2111 x86888 | |
(519) 661-2111 x87897 | | (519) 661-2111 x86893 |
| hanan@csd.uwo.ca | | daley@csd.uwo.ca | | mercer@csd.uwo.ca |
| |
| Nadrian C.
Seeman | | Lex
Renner | | Rob
Corless |
| Professor | | Professor | | Professor |
| Department of Chemistry | | Department of
Mathematics | | Department of Applied Mathematics |
| New York University | |
University of Western Ontario | | University of Western
Ontario |
| (212) 998-8400 | | (519) 661-2111 x86515 |
| (519) 661-2111
x88776 |
| ned.seeman@nyu.edu | | lex@uwo.ca | | rcorless@uwo.ca |
| |
| Dennis Cecic, P.
Eng. | | Reg
Kulperger | | David
Riley (Teaching Reference) |
| Sr. Training Engineer | |
Professor | | Professor and Chair |
| Microchip Technology Inc. | | Department of
Statistics | | Department of Mathematics |
| Chair - IEEE Computer Society | | University of Western
Ontario | | University of Western Ontario |
| (416) 836-4001 | | (519) 661-3627 x83627 | |
(519) 661-2111 x86512 |
| d.cecic@ieee.org | | rjk@stats.uwo.ca | | dmriley@uwo.ca |
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