Chris Francisco

E-mail: chris@math.okstate.edu
Office: 407 Mathematical Sciences
Office phone: (405) 744-5774

I am an assistant professor in the mathematics department at Oklahoma State University. My research interest is commutative algebra. Here are my vita and publication list.

This semester, I am teaching an honors section of Math 2153 as well as Math 4623/5013. Both courses use the Online Classroom, and Math 2153 uses WebAssign.

I spent 2004-2007 as a postdoc in the math department at the University of Missouri. I finished my Ph.D. in mathematics at Cornell University in the summer of 2004. At Cornell, I worked with Mike Stillman, studying Hilbert functions and the minimal graded free resolutions associated to them. I frequently use the computer algebra system Macaulay 2, written by Dan Grayson and Mike Stillman.

In 1999, I graduated with degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While at Illinois, I got interested in commutative algebra thanks to Graham Evans, my undergraduate mentor. I am originally from Lawrence, Kansas, and I graduated from Lawrence High School in 1995.

I am married to Cynthia Bowers Francisco, who also works in the math department at OSU.

Last updated: January 5, 2010.