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Chris Francisco
E-mail: chrisf@math.missouri.edu
Office: 320A Mathematical Sciences Building
Office phone: (573) 882-2393
The
math department's page for me
I am a postdoctoral fellow in the mathematics department at the University of Missouri. My research interest is commutative algebra. You can see some of my professional information here:
This semester, I am teaching one section of Math 1400, a first-semester calculus course primarily for life science students, and one section of Math 4070, a course on abstract algebra for prospective middle-school teachers. If you're enrolled in one of my sections, you can go to the Blackboard sites for the courses.
I finished my Ph.D. in mathematics at Cornell University in the summer of 2004. At Cornell, I worked with Mike Stillman, studying Hilbert functions and the minimal graded free resolutions associated to them. I frequently use the computer algebra system Macaulay 2, written by Dan Grayson and Mike Stillman. I got interested in commutative algebra thanks to Graham Evans, my undergraduate mentor in the Campus Honors Program.
In 1999, I graduated with degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am originally from Lawrence, Kansas, and I graduated from Lawrence High School in 1995.
In the summer of 2001, I married Cynthia Bowers Francisco. She teaches math at Rock Bridge High School in Columbia.
Here are some of my nonmathematical interests.
Last updated: January 9, 2007.