Biography

Reid Buchanan is a graduate student at Oklahoma State University who is on the job market for the 2025 - 2026 academic year. He primarily researches topics in commutative algebra, with an emphasis on combinatorics and homological algebra techniques. He is a student of Dr. Jeffrey Mermin.

Reid will be available for interviews at the 2026 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington D.C.

Curriculum Vitae

Research interests

Reid is studying free resolutions of monomial ideals over a polynomial ring.

Research Statement

Teaching resources

Reid uses the online graphing calculator Desmos to support his lectures. Over the years, he has made several graphs that visualize historically tricky concepts broken into digestible steps and utilize animations. Here are a few he has made:

Teaching Statement