Joe McDonough
About Me
I am a fourth year PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, interested in algebraic combinatorics and commutative algebra. My advisor is Pasha Pylyavskyy.
I graduated from San Diego State University in 2021, where I worked with Christopher O'Neill on problems relating to numerical semigroups and polyhedral geometry.
Recent Activities
- (Fall 2025) I will be organizing the Graduate Online Combinatorics Colloquium (GOCC) with Dmitris Bogiokas, Mitsuki Hanada, and Bailee Zacovic
- (Fall 2025) I will be speaking at the AMS Southeastern Sectional at Tulane University.
- (Summer 2025) I participated in Google summer of code with sagemath. Here is a summary of my project.
- (Fall 2024) I passed my preliminary oral exam, with a presentation titled "The Stanley-Stembridge Conjecture for 2+1+1 avoiding unit interval orders".
- (Fall 2024-) I am organizing the Directed Reading Program at UMN with Aaron Li, Anastasia Nathanson, and Anthony Nguyen.
- (Summer 2024) I was a TA for the UMN Combinatorics REU.
- (Summer 2024) I participated in MRWAC at UMN, where I worked on a project investigating coefficients of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials.
Contact
Email: mcdo1248 [at] umn [dot] edu
Office: 424 Vincent Hall 206 Church St SE Minneapolis MN 55455