Dan May
Phd Candidate in Mathematics
Graduate Fellow
scienceposse@uwyo.edu

For my PhD research, I am studying mutually unbiased bases.  I work with certain orthonormal bases of complex vector spaces which interact with each other in a prescribed way.  Mutually unbiased bases may be relevant to the field of quantum computation.

Having attended Natrona County High School and Casper College, I am familiar with mathematics education in the state of Wyoming.  I received a BS in mathematics from Montana State University in 2001, an MS from the University of Wyoming in 2005, and will finish my PhD at UW in 2010.

My teaching background includes six years as a graduate assistant, where I have had complete teaching responsibilities of many different types of undergraduate math courses.  Teaching has always been my favorite part of being a graduate student, and I am excited to bring some interesting topics in abstract mathematics to a younger audience.  Some of the mathematics behind what I do would approachable and exciting to students without a technical mathematical background. There are basic concepts in finite geometry and group theory which would make excellent material for junior and senior high school students, and there are basic problems in number theory that would also be fun.