Francis Bonahon
Professor
Department
of Mathematics
University of Southern
California
- MAILING ADDRESS:
- Department of Mathematics
- University of Southern California
- 3620 South Vermont Avenue, KAP 108
- Los Angeles, California 90089-2532
- PHONE: (213) 740-2390
- FAX: (213) 740-2424
- OFFICE: Denney Research Building
DRB 264
- EMAIL: fbonahon@math.usc.edu
Teaching:
Spring 2008:
Fall 2008: The teaching schedule of the department is still
very
tentative, but I may teach among other things:
- MATH 599,
Algebraic and Geometric Topology
Geometry and Topology Seminar:
The schedule can be found here. This
semester, we are meeting on Mondays at 4:30, with occasional
variations.
Research:
My research is in the area of topology and geometry,
with an emphasis
on spaces of dimension 2 and 3. This has included hyperbolic geometry
in the past 20 years, but I have more recently moved to the field of
quantum topology (and algebra). This work has been funded by the National
Science Foundation (and a few others) since 1987.
Here is a link to an article in the magazine
Science that describes research done by others but which is closely
related to earlier work of mine. Incidentally, one of my quotes in this
article was later cited as a
particularly idiomatic use of the english language; anybody who has
ever heard me speak english may find this amusing.
Are you a peri-doctoral mathematician interested in low-dimensional
topology and geometry?
If yes, you may be interested in the program Mathematical Research
Communities of the American Mathematical Society (see also the poster here, and the article by Allyn Jackson in the Notices of
the AMS), and in particular in the
summer conference that I am co-organizing in Snowbird, UT, on June
14-20, 2008. The
funding has been approved by the National Science Foundation, and the application deadline is February 28,
2008.
Personal:
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