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Christina Sormani

Department of Mathematics CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue (34th St), NY NY 10016 Graduate Center Office: 4217.02 G.C. Office Hrs: by appt	.................... *sormanic at member.ams.org* ....................	Department of Math & Computer Science Lehman College, CUNY Bronx, New York 10468 Lehman College Office: Gillet Hall 200B Office Hrs: Mon Wed 10-11am, 3-4pm

Associate Professor, CUNY GC and Lehman College
Research: description, upcoming talks, curriculum vitae...
Papers: links to reprints and arxiv preprints...
Teaching: now, next semester and in the past...
Lehman College Activities: undergraduate programs and committees...
CUNY Graduate Center Activities: seminars, students, conferences...
Mathematics in the Bronx: for high school and college students...
Women and Other Mathematicians: web forums and links...

Research:

What is Riemannian Geometry? A description for the nonmathematician and Metric Geometry.
My papers and how they can be downloaded.
My Curriculum Vitae and recent and upcoming Invited Talks with pdf files.

Conferences and Seminars that I've organized and coorganized.

The Poincare Conjecture (a webpage for the general audience).

CUNY Graduate Center Activities:

I coorganize the CUNY Differential Geometry Seminar on Tuesdays.

My doctoral student, Michael Munn, plans to graduate in May 2008. His dissertation is on the topology of manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature.

I also regularly serve on the differential geometry qualifying exam committee, the PSC CUNY grant committee, and second examination (oral qual) committees.

I've coorganized three Geometric Analysis Conferences at the Grad Center.

Lehman College Activities:

My office hours are 10-11 am Mon Wed and 3-4 pm Mon-Wed in Gillet Hall 200B.

I run the Lehman College Math Circle.
I assist with the CSM Scholarship Program.
I'm also an elected member of the Educational Policy Committee.

From 2000-2006 I served on the Calculus Committee.

Mathematics in the Bronx:

Lehman College Math Circle for high school students. Our top student has finished her second year at MIT! Now the Math Circle offers college credit courses through the College Now Program.

A webpage Explore Geometry for Bronx High School teachers created with students in MAT 636 in Fall 2002.

The Lehman College Math and Computer Science Club has lots of useful and fun links.

Lehman College Calculus Webpage for use by faculty and students who want to consult the official syllabi.

The Lehman College Computer Science and Mathematics Mentorship & Scholarship Program.

Bronx Community College Math and Computer Science Department is an excellent place to study math before coming to Lehman College.

Teaching:

This Spring:

Analysis II, MAT321, Spring 2008
Prerequisites: Analysis I (MAT320)
Text: Marsden "Elementary Classical Analysis"

Differential Geometry, MAT432, Spring 2008,
Prerequisites Vector Calc (MAT226) and Linear Algebra (MAT 313),
This counts as a geometry course for high school certification.
Text: Bloch "A first course in geometric topology and differential geometry"

Graduate Differential Geometry, MAT733, Spring 2008

Precalculus, MAT172CN, Lehman College, College Now Program, Spring 2008.

Past semesters:

Analysis I, MAT320, Fall 2007, GI 305

Precalculus, MAT172CN, Lehman College, College Now Program, Fall 2007, GI 205.

Discrete Mathematics, MAT237 for the College Now Program, Fall 2006.

Calculus I, MAT175, Lehman College, Spring 2006.

Precalculus, MAT172CN, Lehman College, College Now Program, Spring 2006.

Metric Geometry, CUNY Graduate Center, Fall 2005

Precalculus, MAT172, Lehman College, Fall 2005

Intermediate Calculus I, MAT 226, Lehman College, Spring 2005.

Intermediate Calculus II, MAT227, Spring 2003.
Geometry, MAT346, Lehman College, Fall 2002
Noneuclidean Geometries, MAT636, Lehman College, Fall 2002
Intermediate Calculus I, MAT226, Lehman College, Fall 2002
Elements of Linear Algebra, Lehman College, Fall , 2000 (using Kolman).
Calculus I Laboratory , MAT155, Lehman College, Fall, 2000 (using Larson).
Calculus I , MAT175, Lehman College, Spring, 2000 (using Stewart).

Calculus I Laboratory, MAT155, Lehman College, Spring, 2000 (using Stewart).

Analysis II, Johns Hopkins, Spring, 1999.

Analysis I, Johns Hopkins, Fall, 1998.

Introduction to Differential Geometry, Johns Hopkins, Fall, 1998.

Partial Differential Equations, Johns Hopkins, Spring, 1998.

Riemannian Geometry, Johns Hopkins, Fall-Spring 1998.

Some Projects for Calculus II that I designed for use at New York University.

Introductory Lessons for Real Analysis in dvi, ps, pdf (sans pictures) that I designed for Math112 at Harvard University and used at Johns Hopkins as well. It was used for 1 month. See course description above.

Women and Other Mathematicians:

The Association of Women in Mathematics

The Diverse Personal Lives of Mathematicians Webforum.

The American Association of University Professors: on women's issues and on family issues.

The Noether Lecturers: a list and a call for more information

The WomeninMath Google Group and letter of Alexander-Taylor-Uhlenbeck

Lifting a Ton of Feathers, a depressing book by Paula J. Caplan.

MomsRising.org: do you know 163 countries have paid maternity leave? MomsRising fights for it state by state in the US.

More information about Paid Maternity Leave

New York Women in Mathematics Network

Family:

My family in Fall, 2003.
My kids and just me and Kendall in 2005.
The girls playing Go in 2006.

E-mail: sormanic (at) member.ams.org