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Christina Sormani

Department of Mathematics CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave, NY NY 10016 Graduate Center Office: 4217.02 G.C. Office Hrs: Tue or Fri by appt	.................... *sormanic at member.ams.org* google site ....................	Department of Math & Computer Science Lehman College, CUNY Bronx, New York 10468 Lehman College Office: Gillet Hall 200B Office Hours: 9:45-11:00 Mon/Wed, 2:00-3:30 Wed

	Full Professor, CUNY GC and Lehman College Research: descriptions, upcoming talks, curriculum vitae... Papers: links to reprints and arxiv preprints... Teaching: links to past courses... Lehman College Activities: committees... CUNY Graduate Center Activities: seminars, doctoral students... Mathematics in the Bronx: MTTI, College Now... Women and Other Mathematicians: web forums...

Full Professor, CUNY GC and Lehman College
Research: descriptions, upcoming talks, curriculum vitae...
Papers: links to reprints and arxiv preprints...
Teaching: links to past courses...
Lehman College Activities: committees...
CUNY Graduate Center Activities: seminars, doctoral students...
Mathematics in the Bronx: MTTI, College Now...
Women and Other Mathematicians: web forums...

Research:

My Papers, Preprints and a rather lengthy CV,
Recent Invited Talks with pdf files/abstracts.

Measuring the Stability of the Universe, written in response to being nominated for a Blavatnik Young Scientist Award in 2011

The Abstract of my current NSF Research Grant.

The Presentation from my Geometry Festival Talk in 2009.

An Overview of all my research (written for mathematicians in 2008 for promotion to Full Professor).

Intrinsic Flat Convergence (a webpage for mathematicians)
What is Riemannian Geometry? A description for the nonmathematician and Metric Geometry.
Conferences and Seminars that I've organized and coorganized.
My Doctoral Students: Michael Munn (PhD CUNY 2008), Pedro Solórzano (PhD SUNYSB 2011), Sajjad Lakzian, Jorge Basilio and Raquel Perales.

CUNY Graduate Center Activities:

Mathematics at CUNY: Adding Gravitas by Neill S. Rosenfeld.
I attend (and used to coorganize) the CUNY Differential Geometry Seminar on Tuesdays.
My Doctoral Students: Michael Munn (PhD 2008), Pedro Solórzano (expected PhD 2011), Sajjad Lakzian, Jorge Basilio and Raquel Perales.
I also regularly serve on the differential geometry qualifying exam committee, the PSC CUNY grant committee, and second examination (oral qual) committees. I am a member of our new committee regarding the NRC and US News Ranking of our department.
I've organized a few Conferences and Seminars.

Lehman College Activities:

Lehman College Students in 2009.
Elected member of the Department Educational Policy Committee, 2006-present.
Mathematics Teacher Transformation Institute, (MTTI) PI, 2008-2010.
Assessment Ambassador for the Mathematics Major since in Spring 2010.
Appointed member of the LSAMP Steering Committee 2008-10.
Advisor to the Lehman College Math Circle/College Now Math Program.
2006-2008 assisted with the CSM Scholarship Program.
2000-2006 served on the Calculus Committee.

Mathematics in the Bronx:

Mathematics Teacher Transformation Institute, training teacher leaders for math junior high and high school teachers in the Bronx.
Lehman College Math Circle for high school students. 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:

Graduate Student Reading Seminar in Geometric Measure Theory
Graduate Student Reading Seminar in Metric Spaces

Analysis I, MAT320 at Lehman College, Fall 2011
Graduate Student Reading Seminar in Geometric Measure Theory, Fall 2011
Grad Prep Analysis II at the GC, Summer 2011
Graduate Student Reading Seminar in Geometric Measure Theory, Summer 2011
Spring 2011: On Sabbatical conducting Research
Analysis I, MAT320, Lehman College, Fall 2010.
Axiomatic Geometry, MAT345, Lehman College, Spring 2010
Analysis I, MAT320, Lehman College, Fall 2009
Geometry, MAT631, Lehman College MTTI, Fall 2009.
Analysis and Topology Transition, Graduate Center, Prep Course, Bridge to the Doctorate, Summer 2009.
Geometry, MAT631, Lehman College MTTI, Spring 2009.
Geometric Measure Theory, Independent Study, Graduate Center, Spring 2009.
Metric Spaces, LSAMP Independent Study, Lehman College, Spring 2009.
Analysis I, MAT320, Lehman College, Fall 2008
Topics in Mathematics, Independent Study for Senior Math Majors, Lehman College, Fall 2008
Analysis II, MAT321, Spring 2008
Differential Geometry, MAT432, Spring 2008,
Graduate Differential Geometry, MAT733, Spring 2008
Precalculus, MAT172CN, Lehman College, College Now, Spring 2008.
Analysis I, MAT320, Fall 2007, GI 305
Precalculus, MAT172CN, Lehman College, College Now, Fall 2007, GI 205.
Discrete Mathematics, MAT237 for the College Now, Fall 2006.
Calculus I, MAT175, Lehman College, Spring 2006.
Precalculus, MAT172CN, Lehman College, College Now, 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 AWM 2012 Panel on Coauthoring and Collaboration 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
A personal story of how my research was affected by maternity and motherhood and other factors.
New York Women in Mathematics Network

Family:

My family in Fall, 2003.

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