Spencer Dowdall

I am an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and a J.L. Doob Research Assistant Professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
My research interests are in geometric topology, mapping class groups, Teichmüller theory, and geometric group theory.

Previously I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, where I received my PhD under the direction of Benson Farb.

Office: Illini Hall, room 238
Office phone: 217-244-9038
E-mail: $my email address$

Papers:

Dilatation versus self-intersection number for point-pushing pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms (pdf) (arXiv)
Journal of Topology 4 (2011) no. 4: 942-984. (journal link)
Statistical hyperbolicity in Teichmüller space (pdf) (arXiv)
(with Moon Duchin and Howard Masur )
Spheres in the curve complex (pdf) (arXiv)
(with Moon Duchin and Howard Masur )
Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 590, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2013, pp.1-8. (journal link)
Pseudo-Anosov subgroups of fibered 3–manifold groups (pdf) (arXiv)
(with Richard P. Kent IV and Christopher J. Leininger )
Dynamics on free-by-cyclic groups (pdf) (arXiv)
(with Ilya Kapovich and Christopher J. Leininger )

Teaching:
Spring 2013: Math 231 (Calculus II), Lectures CL1 and DL1

Past teaching:
Spring 2012: Math 402 (Non-Euclidean Geometry), sections C13 and D13
Fall 2011: Math 402 (Non-Euclidean Geometry), section C13

(at the University of Chicago):
Autumn 2010: Math 112 (Studies in Mathematics), section 40
Winter 2010: Math 153 (Calculus 3), section 24
Autumn 2009: Math 152 (Calculus 2), section 24
Spring 2009: Math 133 (Calculus 3), section 22
Winter 2009: Math 132 (Calculus 2), section 22
Autumn 2008: Math 131 (Calculus 1), section 22