Woodburns


A custom pintail cruiser with some of my own graphics. Set up with 105mm Polar Bears, Powell-Peralta 69mm 82a Dragon Skins, and Powell-Peralta griptape. Took about 30 hours total
A custom 48" dancer I made for my girlfriend. The epoxy design on top is gripped with Lucid grip, and the surrounding maple is gripped with Powell-Peralta griptape (spraypainted blue). Set up with Caliber II's + 85a plugs and Powell-Peralta 72mm 75a Byron Esserts.
A custom LDP setup I made centered around spherical objects. The top is gripped with Vicious griptape (30 grit) and has a (rough) graphic cutout that loosely looks like a stage in the Hopf fibration.
A woodburn of my family
A woodburn of my beautiful girlfriend (and Mrs. Tina)
A Christmas present I made for my mother (circa 2020)
For my homie and old roommate CJ — 7/11 will never outlive those glory days.
For Fran you oddball of a physicist and DJ.
For the best surf friendz a guy who doesn't surf could ask for — Merry Christmas doods.
To the happy couple Nick & Lauren (and handsome young man Finn, of course).
Custom deck my old man and I put together. Super edgy. Thing weighs a ton so I use it more as a shelf
The second custom deck my old man and I put together.
A wooden rose wineglass (but makes for a better planter in all honesty).
Rest in Peace, Niska.
Another attempt at a cup (stack of books for my Librarian mother) that wound up making for a better planter.










Ph.D.

San Clemente Villages
Sunset at Coal Oil Point, Goleta, CA
Who's a good boy
(Ryder is.)
The sunsets in IV
are pretty top notch
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Koastal Drifter II 60" — a better surfboard on land than most surfboards are in the water.
I actually suck at skateboarding.
Surf Friendz!

Masters

Temple Bar Pub, Dublin, Ireland
Ireland Whiskey Tours with the Old Man
Neolithic Site, Carrowmore, Ireland
Masters Graduation Ceremony — Spring 2019
Shaggy Dog and Nymeria (c.f. Game of Thrones)
Teeling Whiskey Distillery, Dublin, Ireland.
Monasterboice, Louth, Ireland
Somewhere in the Temple Bar District of Dublin.
The Last Generation of 7-11 House @ the Outer Banks, NC.

Undergraduate

Bull Run Shooting Range with the Old Man (circa 2017)
Bachelors Graduation (Mathematics) — Spring 2017
The boys go to TOTS
Virginia Tech 3.2 for 32 (5k rememberance run) Spring 2018.
Merry Christmas from the 7-11 House on Patrick Henry Dr.
Virginia Tech MMA Club (circa 2016)
Virginia Tech vs. Clemson Tailgate — Fall 2017
Business Casual Woofer
Heterochromia Woofer (a.k.a Niska)
Oia, Santorini
Ammoudi Beach, Santorini
Don't be fooled, I still read at a 3rd grade level.
A Very Photogenic Ryder
A Less Photogenic Ryder
Ryder what are you doing.
VT - Tennessee Battle at Bristol 2016
Turks and Caicos — Summer 2015
McAfees Knob — Spring 2016

About Me

Personal Headshot from Manbeck-Hoxter Wedding

My name is Chris and I'm a mathematics Ph.D. student at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) studying Algebraic Geometry with a focus towards stability conditions (as occuring in String theory, etc).

Prior to my focus on pure mathematics, I completed my masters in applied computational topology, which itself was a bit of an abstraction from my undergrad in computer science engineering. Oddly enough, it all started with my love of Latin and classical Greek — but that's getting a bit off track.

Nowadays I spend the majority of my free time either woodworking like my father, or downhill / slalom longboarding (see homepage video). If you're ever in the central California area for the latter, give me a hollar. Thanks for visiting!