Dr. Brendon Rhoades

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Biography

Brendon Rhoades received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2008. He was awarded the NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, which allowed him to spend the 2008-2009 academic year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Berkeley. Following this, he worked as an Instructor in Applied Mathematics at MIT from 2009 to 2011 and then as a Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor at USC from 2011 to 2012. Rhoades joined the faculty at UC San Diego in 2012. His research focuses on algebraic combinatorics, employing representation-theoretic tools and Kazhdan-Lusztig theory, as well as cluster algebras to obtain enumerative results related to the cyclic sieving phenomenon. He has authored numerous papers pertaining to reflection groups and related structures in Coxeter-Catalan combinatorics.

Research Interests

Algebraic Combinatorics Representation Theory Kazhdan-Lusztig Theory Cluster Algebras Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon Coxeter-Catalan Combinatorics

Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor

— Present

Berkeley • Berkeley, CA

Instructor

— Present

Applied Mathematics MIT • Cambridge, MA

Non-Tenure Track Assistant Professor

— Present

USC • Los Angeles, CA

Professor

— Present

UC San Diego • La Jolla, CA

Requirements for University of California, San Diego

Doctorate Program
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GPA Requirement
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TOEFL
Total
Required:85
IELTS
Overall
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Duolingo
Overall Score
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Overall
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Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in physical, biological, or earth sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Differential and integral calculus. One year of calculus-based physics with laboratory. One year of chemistry with laboratory.
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Specialization Notes

Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).