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Christopher R. H. Hanusa

   
Department of Mathematics
Queens College, CUNY
Flushing, NY 11367
718-997-5964 (Work)
718-997-5882 (Fax)
chanusa@qc.cuny.edu
http://qc.edu/~chanusa/
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Employment
Aug. 2008 - present Assistant Professor, Queens College, Flushing, NY.
Aug. 2005 - May 2008 Robert Riley Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.
Education
Sept. 2003 - June 2005 Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Ph.D. Thesis: A Gessel-Viennot-Type Method for Cycle Systems and Applications to Aztec Pillows
Advisor: Henry Cohn.
Sept. 2001 - June 2003 M.S. in Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Aug. 1997 - May 2001 B.S. in Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA.
Thesis: A Generalized Binet's Formula for kth Order Linear Recurrences: A Markov Chain Approach
Advisor: Francis Su.
Honors and Awards
2009 - 2010 PSC-CUNY Research Award PSCOOC-40-124.
2005 VIGRE Fellowship, UW Department of Mathematics.
2003 - 2004 Excellence in Teaching Award, UW Department of Mathematics.
2001 Graduate School Merit Award, University of Washington.
2001 - 2005 Teaching Assistantship, UW Department of Mathematics.
2001 NSF Fellowship Honorable Mention.
2000 - 2001 MCM Competition - Outstanding, Spring 2001; Honorable Mention, Spring 2000.
1998 Freshman Mathematics Award, Harvey Mudd College.

Papers and Talks

Research Interests

Teaching

Research Experience
July - Aug. 2007 Research with James Propp (U. Mass. Lowell) by e-mail correspondence.
Freize patterns, Laurent polynomials, integer relations.
June 2006 Research with Xavier Viennot, Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, Bordeaux, France.
Dyck paths, heaps and pieces, orthogonal polynomials.
Aug. 2005 Research with Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania Department of Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA.
Urn problems, multivariate generating functions.
Sept. 2003 - June 2005 Ph.D. Research with Henry Cohn, University of Washington Department of Mathematics, Seattle, WA.
Aztec pillows, domino tilings, cycle covers, matrix theory.
Nov. 2003 - Mar. 2004 Collaboration, Center For Research on Health Care, Pittsburgh, PA.
Comparing theoretically both existing and newly created utility assessments in search of a gold standard.
Jan. 2003 - Aug. 2003 Directed Reading with R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, University of Washington Department of Mathematics, Seattle, WA.
Convex optimization and transportation optimization. The traffic assignment problem.
Aug. 2000 - May 2001 Undergraduate Research, Harvey Mudd College Mathematics Department, Claremont, CA,
Fibonacci generalizations and Markov chain methods.
Aug. 2000 - May 2001 Undergraduate Research, Center for Environmental Studies, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA,
Member of a group of six students to research, analyze, and problem solve the specific goals set by our sponsor with respect to the landscaping of the Harvey Mudd Campus.

Conferences
July 20 - 24, 2009 Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics. Hagenburg, Austria.
May 16, 2009 Graph Theory Day Fifty-Seven. Garden City, NY.
January 6 - 9, 2008 Joint Mathematics Meetings. San Diego, CA.
September 15, 2007 Discrete Math Day at Middlebury College. Middlebury, VT.
February 12 - 16, 2007 Statistical Mechanics and Combinatorics. Val-Morin, Québec, Canada.
May 6, 2006 Discrete Math Day at Binghamton University. Binghamton, NY.
June 20 - 25, 2005 Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics. Taormina, Italy.
Jan. 31 - Feb. 4, 2005 MSRI workshop on Markov Chains in Algorithms and Statistical Physics. Berkeley, CA.
Jan. 5 - 8, 2005 Joint Mathematics Meetings. Atlanta, GA.
June 28 - July 2, 2004 Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics. Vancouver, BC, Canada.
March 2004 International Biometric Society - ENAR. Pittsburgh, PA.
Oct. 28, 2000 Mt. Baldy Mathematics Conference. Claremont, CA.

Related Activites
2006 - 2007 Binghamton University learning community faculty contact.
A supported-learning group for incoming freshman. Discussions on teaching, learning, and mentoring, holding office hours in the dorm, organizing workshops on succeeding in math classes.
May 21 - 22, 2007 Institute for Student-Centered Learning Conference, Binghamton University.
2005 - 2007 Faculty co-sponsor of the undergraduate math club.
2006 Co-organizer of Discrete Mathematics Day at Binghamton University, May 6, 2006.
2005 - 2007 Co-organizer of the Binghamton University combinatorics seminar.
2004 - 2005 Co-organizer of the University of Washington combinatorics and geometry seminar.
2005 Organizer of the combinatorics pre-seminar for undergraduates.
Introduction to ideas present in the combinatorics seminar for research-motivated undergraduates.
2003 - 2004 Math Olympiad Program Co-Leader, TOPS at Seward Public School.
After-school program for fourth and fifth graders. Preparing questions, administering the Olympiad, preparing directed homework questions.
Referee for Annals of Combinatorics, Ars Combinatoria, Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics.
Last updated 19 June 2008.