Kurt Luoto’s Homepage
Someday when I grow up I would like to be a math professor. I’m in my fifth and final year in the PhD program here in the Math Department of the University of Washington. I’m on track to defend my thesis in Spring ‘09. I have two excellent co-advisors, Isabella Novik and Sara Billey. I have one paper published, and I have been privileged to share the material by giving a number of talks (see my CV page). More recently I have been collaborating with Jim Haglund, Steph van Willigenburg, and Sarah Mason. We have one paper on arXiv, which has been submitted to a journal, and a second paper in preparation which will probably be submitted in January or February.
I am probably currently the eldest graduate student in the PhD program here at the University of Washington. For that matter, I am physically older than many faculty members, including both of my thesis advisors. But mathematically, I am still very much a youngster, and I like to think that I have the same youthful enthusiasm for the subject that my younger peers enjoy. I have not been in “the math racket” long enough to be jaded or tired. I am enjoying myself immensely.
In my previous life, I worked in the software industry for over 20 years, mostly making embedded software for telecom and datacom gear. Then after having overstayed my welcome in the industry, I was laid off from my last company, a Silicon Valley startup, in 2002 when the entire industry was in the throes of depression. I viewed this as divine permission to leave that industry and get back to studying my favorite topic: mathematics. This was my long detour on the way to graduate school.
This is my “student” web page, where I provide personal and professional information about myself. If you are looking for the class web page of any class that I am currently teaching, then you need to visit my “teaching” web page, which you can get to by clicking here.
A long detour
Office: Padelford C-402
Email: kwluoto (at) math.washington.edu
