Mitch Keller

About Me

I grew up on a family farm in rural North Dakota, where I graduated from Halliday High School in a class of nine students. (Yes, this was the local public high school.) Along the way, I played saxophone in the band and was a basketball statistician. I was also big into FFA, winning six individual state championships and two team titles. At one point, I could identify just about any tree that was hardy enough to grow in North Dakota. I spent the summer of 1998 on campus at North Dakota State University as part of the North Dakota Governor's School mathematics program. Two years later, as a National Merit Scholar and alumnus of the United States Senate Youth Program, I enrolled at NDSU as a Computer Science and Mathematics major. After spending summers in the mathematics Research Experience for Undergraduates program at Louisiana State University and the Director's Summer Program at the National Security Agency, I earned a B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science in May 2004. I also completed the University Honors Program.

In August 2004, I enrolled in the mathematics Ph.D. program at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a VIGRE Trainee. My involvement on campus has focused on the Graduate Student Government Association, Honor Advisory Council, and High School Mathematics Competition. Details of my involvement and honors can be found on my curriculum vitae. In May 2010, I graduated with my Ph.D. My dissertation, entitled Some Results on Linear Discrepancy for Partially Ordered Sets, was written under the supervision of William T. Trotter. Working with Tom Trotter, I am also developing a textbook for Georgia Tech's junior-level applied combinatorics course MATH 3012.

In September 2010, I moved to London to take up a Marshall Sherfield Fellowship. For my fellowship, I will conduct research in combinatorics with Graham R. Brightwell and other faculty in the Department of Mathematics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

When the Mathematics Genealogy Project moved to NDSU from Minnesota State University-Mankato in 2002, I became the Project's Technical Director. In this capacity, I was responsible for maintaining the website and server. Over time, I moved on to serve as Assistant Director and Interim Co-Managing Director. In February 2010, I was named to succeed founder Harry B. Coonce as the Project's Managing Director. I continue to lead the programming for the website, but have added ultimate responsibility for the Project to my portfolio. I oversee the two graduate students who manage the data as well as the assistant director in charge of making the posters we sell to support the Project.

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