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Iowa State University, Ames IA, USA
M.S. in Computer Science, 2007, GPA: 3.82
Thesis: Strict Self-Assembly of Discrete Sierpinski Triangles

University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, Green Bay WI, USA
B.S. in Computer Science (minor in Mathematics), 2004, GPA: 3.98

Conference publications:

Matthew J. Patitz, and Scott M. Summers, Self-Assembly of Discrete Self-Similar Fractals (extended abstract). Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Meeting on DNA Computing (Prague, Czech Republic, June 2-6, 2008). Springer-Verlag, 2008. To appear.
James I. Lathrop, Jack H. Lutz, Matthew J. Patitz, and Scott M. Summers, Computability and Complexity in Self-Assembly (extended abstract). Proceedings of The Fourth Conference on Computability in Europe (Athens, Greece, June 15-20, 2008). Springer-Verlag, 2008. To appear.
James I. Lathrop, Jack H. Lutz, and Scott M. Summers, Strict Self-Assembly of Discrete Sierpinski Triangles (extended abstract). Proceedings of The Third Conference on Computability in Europe (Siena, Italy, June 18-23, 2007). Springer-Verlag, 2007.
Journal publications:
- James I. Lathrop, Jack H. Lutz, and Scott M. Summers, Strict Self-Assembly of Discrete Sierpinski Triangles. Theoretical Computer Science. To appear.
Technical reports:
- Matthew J. Patitz, and Scott M. Summers, Self-Assembly of Decidable Sets (extended abstract). 2008. Submitted.

Iowa State University (Department of Computer Science) PACE Award, September 2004
Iowa State University (Department of Computer Science) John V. Atanasoff Research Excellence Award, May 2007
Iowa State University (Graduate College) Professional Advancement Grant, June 2007
NSF IGERT Travel Grant, June 2007
Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) Travel Grant, June 2007
NSF-IGERT Training Project in Computational Molecular Biology, Summer 2007
Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) Travel Grant, June 2008

Strict Self-Assembly of Discrete Sierpinski Triangles, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, May 9 2008.

The following is a list of courses for which I have served as a TA.

Fall 2007
- Course: Com S 511 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Instructor: Giora Slutzki
Summer 2007
- Courses: Com S 207 Programming 1, and Com S 227 Introduction to Object-oriented Programming
- Instructor: Shashi Gadia
Spring 2007
- Course: Com S 331 Theory of Computation
- Instructor: Jack Lutz
Fall 2006
- Course: Com S 311 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Instructors: Giora Slutzki and Oliver Eulenstein
Summer 2006
- Course: Com S 311 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Instructor: Giora Slutzki
Spring 2006
- Course: Com S 330 Discrete Computational Structures
- Instructor: Giora Slutzki
Fall 2005
- Course: Com S 311 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Instructors: Giora Slutzki and David Fernández-Baca
Summer 2005
- Course: Com S 311 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Instructor: Giora Slutzki
Spring 2005
- Course: Com S 330 Discrete Computational Structures
- Instructor: Jack Lutz
Fall 2004
- Course: Com S 331 Theory of Computation
- Instructor: Pavan Aduri

Spring 2008
- Com S 699 Research
Fall 2007
- Com S 699 Research
Summer 2007
- Com S 699 Research
Spring 2007
- Com S 699 Research
Fall 2006
- Com S 433x/533x Computational Models of Nanoscale Self-Assembly
- Com S 699 Research
Summer 2006
- Com S 699 Research
Spring 2006
- Com S 525 Numerical Analysis of High Performance Computing
- Math 350 Number Theory
- Com S 699 Research
Fall 2005
- Com S 633 Randomness in Computation
- Com S 577 Problem Solving Techniques for Applied Computer Science
- Com S 699 Research
Summer 2005
- Com S 699 Research
Spring 2005
- Com S 531 Theory of Computation
- Com S 634 Game Theory
Fall 2004
- Com S 511 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Com S 586 Computer Network Architechture
- Com S 591 Graduate Orientation