Academic Rank: Professor
Department: Mathematics
Birth date: 9/2/50
Education:
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dissertation: Higher asymptotics of the complex Monge-Ampère equation and geometry of CR manifolds, advised by Richard B. Melrose |
Ph.D. | 1978--1982 |
| Tufts University | 1977--1978 | |
| Princeton University | A.B. | 1968-1972 |
Employment:
| University of Washington | Professor | 1996-present |
| Associate Professor | 1989-1996 | |
| Assistant Professor | 1986-1989 | |
| Harvard University | Assistant Professor | 1982-1987 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Teaching Assistant, Programmer | 1978-1982 |
| Wooster School, Danbury, Connecticut | Math/Physics Teacher | 1975-1977 |
| Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab, Princeton | Systems Programmer | 1974-1975 |
| Texas Instruments | Systems Programmer | 1972-1974 |
Visiting positions:
| Mathematical Sciences Research Institute | 4/30/01-5/18/01 |
| Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia | 6/22/97-7/5/97 |
| MIT | 8/1/94-8/31/94 |
| Mathematical Sciences Research Institute | 9/20/93-9/24/93 |
| Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan | 7/13/88-7/28/88 |
| Mathematical Sciences Research Institute | 3/14/88-3/28/88 |
| Mittag-Leffler Institute | 5/11/86-5/25/86 |
| Mathematical Sciences Research Institute | 7/6/84-7/11/84 |
Awards:
| American Mathematical Society Centennial Research Fellowship | 1989-1991 |
| Joseph R. Levenson Prize for excellence in teaching, Harvard College | 1985-1986 |
| NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship | 1982-1983 |
Graduate students supervised:
| Chris Kunkel | PhD expected, 2008 |
| Eric Bahuaud | PhD, 2007 |
| Robert Hladky | PhD, 2004 |
| Peter Garfield | PhD, 2001 |
| John Roth | PhD, 1999 |
| Tracey Marsh | MS, 2004 |
| Dale Skinner | MS, 2000 |
| Brent Smith | MS, 1996 |
| Gregory Leibon | MS, 1996 |
| Phillippe Konstantinovic | MS, 1993 |
| Gerd Breitenbach | MS, 1991 |
Professional duties:
| Associate Editor, Journal of Geometric Analysis | 1990-present |
| Coordinator, Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar | 1990-2003 |
| Reviewer for National Science Foundation | 1986-present |
| Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews | 1988-present |
| Referee for numerous mathematics research journals and book publishers | 1988-present |
Software Developed:
Ricci: a Mathematica Package for Doing Tensor Calculations in Differential
Geometry, 1992. An original software package consisting of 7000
lines of Mathematica code; distributed via Internet, and chosen for inclusion
in Wolfram Research's MathSource library of Mathematica packages.
Textbooks:
| Riemannian Manifolds: An Introduction to Curvature | Springer-Verlag | 1997 |
| Introduction to Topological Manifolds | Springer-Verlag | 2000 |
| Introduction to Smooth Manifolds | Springer-Verlag | 2002 |