Aaron Nathan Siegel

Welcome to my homepage!  I'm currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.  I'm participating in the special program in Theoretical Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics.

The best way to contact me is by e-mail:    aaron.n.siegel at gmail.com

Research Interests

• Combinatorial game theory
• Set theory

Documents

• Curriculum Vitae (including a list of publications)
• Research Statement
• Teaching Statement

Selected Preprints and Reprints

A. N. Siegel, Misère canonical forms of partizan games.  Pending submission.

A. N. Siegel, The structure and classification of misère quotients. Pending submission.

A. N. Siegel, Misère Games and Misère Quotients, lecture notes from a course taught at the Weizmann Institute.

T. E. Plambeck & A. N. Siegel, Misère quotients for impartial games.  Submitted.

A. N. Siegel, Coping with cycles.  In M. Albert and R. J. Nowakowski, editors, Games of No Chance 3, MSRI Publications.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, forthcoming.

J. P. Grossman & A. N. Siegel, Reductions of partizan games.  In Games of No Chance 3.

A. N. Siegel, Loopy Games and Computation.  PhD thesis, University of California at Berkeley, 2005.

All Preprints and Reprints

Selected Slides

• Misère Quotients for Impartial Games, Combinatorics Seminar, UPenn, January 2007.
• An Invitation to Combinatorial Games, Princeton, NJ, October 2006:
  Part I: A Panoramic View
  Part II: Techniques and Generalizations
• Dogmatic Thermography of Go, Edmonton, Alberta, August 2006.
• The Misère Mex Mystery, CMS Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, June 2006.
• Miserable Monoids (expanded version), Commutative Algebra Seminar, Berkeley, CA, December 2005.
• Miserable Monoids (short version), INTEGERS Conference 2005, Carrollton, GA, October 2005.
• Loopy Games, Games of No Chance 3, Banff, Alberta, June 2005.
• Companionship and Lattices, Games of No Chance 3, Banff, Alberta, June 2005.

Notes and Other Writings

• Sinks and Shells, article for the Gathering for Gardner 7, March 2006.

Software

• Combinatorial Game Suite, a Java-based computer algebra system for research in combinatorial game theory.

Miscellaneous

• Some pictures of my cats.