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Research

I did my PhD at MIT, working with Haynes Miller. My thesis was on Bar constructions for topological operads and the Goodwillie derivatives of the identity.

Publications and preprints

• Bar constructions for topological operads and the Goodwillie derivatives of the identity, Geom. Topol. 9(2005) 833-933
• A note on the composition product of symmetric sequences, arxiv:math.CT/0510490 (2005)
• A chain rule for Goodwillie derivatives of functors from spectra to spectra, arxiv:0710.5567 (2008), accepted by Transactions of the AMS

Manuscripts

• Calculus of functors and configuration spaces (June 2005)
• Cross-effects of homotopy functors and spaces of trees (October 2004)
• Homotopy operations on simplicial algebras over an operad (December 2003)

Teaching