me! (on a hill in the Caribbean)

Welcome to my piece of the Web!

My name is Nick Alexander. I'm a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California. Fall quarter, 2005, I entered the PhD program in the Department of Mathematics under Dr. Alice Silverberg. Generally I am interested in number theory and cryptography; you can see my research page for some details.

As of Fall 2009, I am on the academic job market. You can see my curriculum vitae and job materials.

I hack on Sage, developed by William Stein and others. From the webpage: ``Sage is free and open software that supports research and teaching in algebra, geometry, number theory, cryptography, and related areas.'' I have worked on Sage since December 2006 (the sage-1.5 release) and contribute in many areas.

You might be interested in my contact info:

UCI graduate students should read two very helpful sites posted by two of our own: Tim Choi's http://math.uci.edu/~tchoi/latex/ and Paul Macklin's http://www.math.uci.edu/~pmacklin/grad_school.html. Paul Macklin and I co-founded the Mathematics Graduate Student Colloquium in Fall 2006

If this web page seems oddly familiar, it's because I stole it from Eric S. Raymond, one of the most influential thinkers in the open source movement.

I'm a satisfied user of an Apple MacBook Pro and I'm on my second iPod. I highly recommend both products -- once you make the switch to OS X, you'll never go back... except if digital rights management makes you return.


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