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Joe Rusinko

Mathematics Department

University of Georgia

Athens, GA 30602

410-868-7878

rusinko@math.uga.edu

Education

2002-2007 University of Georgia Mathematics Department –PhD. Program under Valery Alexeev

1997-2001 Davidson College- Double major in Mathematics and German

1999-2000 University of Wuerzburg (Germany) – Studied Mathematics and German

Teaching Experience

Awards

2006 Departmental Teaching Award

2005 University's TA Mentor Program

2004 University’s Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

Courses Taught

GRSC 7770 (a course about teaching required of all new graduate teaching assistants)

Math 5003 Mathematics for Elementary School teachers (a writing intensive course for future teachers)

Math 1113 Pre-Calculus

Math 2200 Calculus

Math 2200L Calculus Lab with MAPLE

Other Teaching experience

Developing a Service Learning section of Calculus in conjunction with a local at risk high school

9 course hours in teaching seminar courses

Serve as a teaching mentor for a new graduate student

Math 6880-Observing and preparing to teach a mathematical content course for elementary school teachers

Scholarship Awards

2004-2005 M.J. Ball Memorial Scholarship Award winner

2002- VIGRE Research Fellowship funding my summers and alternating academic years

Research

Ongoing Thesis project: Using toric degenerations of flag varieties to construct mirror families of Calabi-Yau varieties.

Publication: math.AG/0610563: Equivalence of Mirror Families Constructed from Toric Degenerations of Flag Varieties

(submitted for publication)

VIGRE Research groups: 2002-2003 Calculating the rank of Elliptic Curves in families of Cubic twists- under Dino Lorenzini

Spring 2004: Stable Toric Varieties and Pairs- under Valery Alexeev

2004-2005: Derived Categories of Rational Varieties- under Elham Izadi

Conferences Attended

Summer 2005 Algebraic Geometry Conference in Seattle Washington (3 weeks)

January 2005 Joint Meetings of the AMS (1 week)

Summer 2004 Conference on the Geometry of String Theory-Northwestern University (3 weeks)

Summer 2003 Conference on Mahler Measure- Vancouver Canada (4 weeks)

Seminar Talks Given

2006 Equivalence of Mirror Families of Calabi-Yau Varieties

2006 Introduction to Mirror Symmetry (Student seminar-UGA)

2006 Introduction to Toric Varieties (Student seminar-UGA)

2005 Explicit Calculation of Mirror Families (algebraic Geometry Seminar –UGA)

2005 An Introduction to Tropical Geometry

2005 Mirror Symmetry and Toric Degenerations (algebraic Geometry Seminar-UGA)

2004 Intro to BSD Conjecture (Davidson College)

2004 Several talks on Mahler Measure (Student Number theory seminar/student seminar UGA)

2003 Elliptic Curve Cryptography (Davidson College)

2003 Sieving for rational points on elliptic curves (Student Number theory seminar UGA)

2003 Computing the ranks of elliptic curves in families of Cubic Twist (VIGRE Seminar UGA)

Member of AMS since 2002