Welcome!
I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics at Rutgers University, studying combinatorics. I am also a strategy board game enthusiast, a culinary adventurer, and tall. I grew up in the greatest place on earth, New York City—specifically the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Coordinates
- email:
- office: Hill Center room 608
- postal address:
Rutgers Department of Mathematics
110 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
How did I get here?
M.Sc. Applicable Mathematics, London School of Economics, 2010. My masters dissertation under Graham Brightwell, called “Maximal Antichains in Boolean Lattices,” won me the Haya Freedman Prize for best dissertation from a student in the program.
A.B. Mathematics, Dartmouth College, 2009. Of particular importance was a reading course in game theory with Peter Winkler. Later I won Dartmouth’s $20,000 James B. Reynolds Scholarship for Foreign Study to fund my time at LSE.
Stuyvesant High School, 2006 (which I mention only out of pride for the first ever high school to have a featured article on wikipedia).
Research
Though I know my field is combinatorics, as yet I have neither an active research program nor an advisor. Eventually there will be something more interesting here!
Here are the slides for a talk on game theory I gave at Rutgers’s Graduate Student Pizza Seminar in January 2012.
Teaching
Spring 2012
This semester I am teaching sections 25-27 of Math 112, Precalculus Part II. Here is the course website.
OFFICE HOURS: Mondays 2–3 and Tuesdays 12–1, in Hill 608
Past teaching
Fall 2011: Math 151, Calculus I for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Spring 2011 [grading]: Math 421, Advanced Calculus for Engineering
Fall 2010 [grading]: Math 421 and Math 428, Graph Theory
Random
- In my email address, why jabar? This is from a college email address I adopted for myself, when Dartmouth’s email system allowed any user to immediately claim any alias. More to the point, it’s a combination of Jafar and Babar. I think that’s a pretty good summary of my personality.
- I submit that this is the best talk that has ever been given. I find it worth re-watching every few months or so.
- Like board games? In the New York area? Check out NerdNYC.
- Improv Everywhere is a group that stages “missions” of public, participatory, prank-based performance art throughout New York City. They are brilliant. Here’s their founder speaking at TED.
Blog
Maybe this will happen at some point.
