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Brendan W. Sullivan

  • Graduate: Doctor of Arts (D.A.) in Mathematical Sciences, May 2013 from Carnegie Mellon University. Advised by John Mackey and Jack Schaeffer. My thesis was a textbook for an "Introduction to Proofs" course.
  • Undergraduate: Hamilton College, B.A. in Mathematics & Physics.

Now a Lecturer at Emmanuel College in Boston. Teaching a 4/4 load and doing research on Cops & Robbers on graphs. Recent publication with undergraduate collaborators featured in the College Mathematics Journal: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/college.math.j.48.5.322

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