Education Ph.D. in Mathematics (2000) - Advisor: A.V. Geramita Queen's University, Canada. B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics (1996) - Advisor: L. Caccetta Curtin University of Technology, Australia. B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computing Science (1995) Curtin University of Technology, Australia. Appointments 7/2007-present: Assistant Professor at Tulane University. 8/2001-5/2004: Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Missouri. 8/2000-present: Regular Member at Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam.

Publications From MathSciNet. Published papers and preprints. Current Teaching Math 122 and Math 712/662. Curriculum Vitae CV (last updated on September 2008). Poems Those silly poems of mine (in Vietnamese).

Research Interest

Algebraic Geometry Commutative Algebra Computational Algebra Combinatorics

Embeddings and syzygies of projective schemes. Birational morphisms, blowing up, Macaulayfication and arithmetic Macaulayfication of schemes. Blow-up algebras, Rees algebras, associated graded rings. Cohen-Macaulayness, Hilbert functions, defining equations and minimal free resolution. Asymptotic behavior of algebraic invariants. Regularity and multi-graded regularity. Monomial ideals, hyper-graphs and edge ideals. Interactions between commutative algebra and combinatorics.