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Aaron Wood is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. He previously served as Associate Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah, with office in JWB 209 and contact wood@math.utah.edu. Aaron Wood earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Utah in 2013, advised by Gordan Savin. His dissertation titled 'A minimal type of the 2-adic Weil representation' was published in Mathematische Zeitschrift 277(1-2), 257-283 (2014). During graduate studies, he was a VIGRE Graduate Fellow mentored by Gordan Savin, contributing to Math Circle outreach, and presented colloquia including 'Generating Gray Codes' (GSAC Spring 2008) and 'Archimedes' Cattle Problem' (Undergraduate Colloquium Spring 2011).

Following his Ph.D., Aaron Wood held a position in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Missouri, Columbia, with research listed in representation theory. He co-authored with Gordan Savin 'On the metaplectic group in even residual characteristic' (arXiv:1511.04821v1, 2015). He taught recitation sections for Math 1220 Calculus II in Fall 2012 at the University of Utah Department of Mathematics. Currently, Aaron Wood teaches CS 2100 Discrete Structures and CS 2420 Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. His professional email is aaron@cs.utah.edu.