Christopher Coscia Dartmouth College Department of Mathematics 6188 Kemeny Hall Hanover, NH 03755 [email protected] RESEARCH Markov chain mixing times and exact mixing, MCMC, political redistricting, random INTERESTS permutations and permutons, enumerative combinatorics, permutation patterns, the probabilistic method and random graphs. EDUCATION Dartmouth College Hanover, NH Ph.D. Candidate, Mathematics expected June 2020 Advisor: Peter Winkler A.M., Mathematics November 2016 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA B.S., Mathematics May 2015 • Magna cum laude; College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program HONORS AND 2016 Dartmouth GAANN Fellowship Dartmouth College AWARDS 2015 - current Dartmouth Graduate Fellowship Dartmouth College 2015 Phi Beta Kappa Boston College 2015 Order of the Cross and Crown Boston College PUBLICATIONS • Online and random graph domination (w/ J. DeWitt, F. Yang, and Y. Zhang), DMTCS, 19(2) (2017). • Locally convex permutations and words (w/ J. DeWitt), Electronic J. Combin., 23(2) (2016). UNIVERSITY Summer 2019 Instructor Abstract Algebra Dartmouth College TEACHING Summer 2018 Instructor Probability Dartmouth College EXPERIENCE Fall 2017 Instructor Intro to Calculus Dartmouth College Fall 2018 TA Percolation (Grad) Dartmouth College Spring 2017 TA Linear Algebra Dartmouth College Fall 2016 TA Prob. Method (Grad) Dartmouth College Winter 2016 TA Differential Equations Dartmouth College Fall 2015 TA Multivariable Calculus Dartmouth College CONFERENCE • Exact Mixing and the Thorp Shuffle, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Denver. (Jan- TALKS uary 2020) • Locally Convex Permutations, Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio. (Jan- uary 2015) OTHER • How Not to Shuffle, Dartmouth Graduate Student Seminar (November 2019) TALKS • Strong Coloring and the Strong Chromatic Number, Dartmouth Graduate Student Seminar (May 2019) • Couplings of Markov Chains, Dartmouth Graduate Student Seminar (January 2019) • Robertson-Seymour Theorem, Dartmouth Graduate Student Seminar (May 2018) • Polychromatic Fans and Van der Waerden's Theorem, Dartmouth Graduate Stu- dent Seminar (March 2016) • Polychromatic Fans and Van der Waerden's Theorem, Boston College Undergrad- uate Thesis. (April 2015) • Locally Convex Permutations and Words, East Tennessee State University REU (July 2014) • Online Graph Domination, East Tennessee State Univerity REU (July 2014) WORKSHOPS Graph Limits, Groups, and Stochastic Processes Summer School ATTENDED MTA Renyi Institute, Budapest, Summer 2017 COMPUTER Proficient: LATEX, Python, SageMath, R, Maple. SKILLS Some experience: Matlab, Mathematica, Stata, Java, HTML, Javascript, SQL. PREVIOUS Boston College Math Department Chestnut Hill, MA TEACHING & EMPLOYMENT • Grader (Calculus, Probability, Number Theory, Combinatorics) 2012-2015 • TA (held open office hours for undergraduate courses) 2013-2015 Tutors For All Boston, MA • Academic Coach (Math, Economics, Chemistry, English) 2013 RECENT Dartmouth Math Society Graduate Student Liaison, 2018-current. COMMUNITY SERVICE Co-organized two weeklong \math camps" for middle school and high school students in the summer of 2017. Topics: \Counting, Coloring, and Combinatorics" and \Logic, Paradoxes, and Infinity." OTHER Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Saxophone performance (wind ensemble) ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS Baseball analytics/Sabermetric research.