Office: 13 Illini Hall
Phone: (217) 300-0692
FAX: (217) 333-9576
e-mail: sba@math.uiuc.edu
Research:
I'm working in metric geometry and Alexandrov spaces of curvature bounded either above or below; Riemannian geometry; Lorentz geometry; and applications of metric geometry and convexity to robotics.
PhD Students:
Chanyoung Jun (Ph.D. 2012)
Jeremy Wong (Ph.D. 2006)
Chaiwat Maneesawarng (Ph.D. 1999)
Anton Petrunin (Ph.D. 1995)
Robert Currier (Ph.D. 1984)
Nadine Menninga (Ph.D. 1984)
William Taber (Ph.D. 1980)
Current PhD Students:
Scott Tichenor
Kuo-Tsai Chen Award for Distinguished Mathematical Research, 2004-2006
Prokasy Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1993
Luckman Undergraduate Distinguished Teaching Award, 1993
Outstanding Teacher of Freshmen, Alpha Lambda Delta,
1986
Current drafts of three chapters of the book Alexandrov Geometry (with Vitali Kapovitch and Anton Petrunin), in preparation: