Fitzpatrick, Sean

Instructor

Mathematics & Computer Science

Phone
(403) 332-5209
Email
sean.fitzpatrick@uleth.ca

Biography



Employment History:

July 2014 - June 2015: Instructor III, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Lethbridge.
August 2013 - July 2014: Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Western University.
July 2012 - June 2013: Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley.
August 2010 - June 2012: NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley.
August 2009 - July 2010: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Mount Allison University.

Education:

PhD in Mathematics, University of Toronto, 2009. Advisor: Eckhard Meinrenken.
MSc in Mathematics, University of Toronto, 2004. Advisor: Lisa Jeffrey.
BScH in Physics and Mathematics, University of Winnipeg, 2003.

Hometown: Selkirk, Manitoba.

Research Interests

Currently: open education resources and technology for math, including PreTeXt XML (for textbook authoring), WeBWorK online homework, integration of Jupyter and Python, and lightboard video production.

Once upon a time: differential geometry, including symplectic, contact, and CR geometry; geometric quantization, and the Atiyah-Singer index theorem.