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Walter D. Neumann
Professor of Mathematics
Walter D. Neumann joined the faculty of Barnard in January, 2000, having previously held a Personal Chair at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has published over 100 research articles and monographs in geometry, topology, and group theory. He is managing editor of Geometry & Topology, the leading journal in its field, is on the editorial boards of several other research journals, and is on the board of directors of the nonprofit Mathematical Sciences Publishers (Berkeley). He is on the Human Rights Committee of the New York Academy of Sciences. In 2002 he was elected to the European Academy of Sciences.
Professor Neumann is on the screening committee for Math for America, which provides fellowships for students with strong mathematical ability to study to become teachers in the secondary public schools. His own teaching specialities include Fourier analysis, modern algebra, and modern analysis.
Selected Publications
"Quasi-Isometric Classification of Graph Manifold Groups" (with J. Behrstock), Duke Mathematical Journal 141 (2008)
"Length and Eigenvalue Equivalence" (with Chris Leininger, et al.), International Mathematics Research Notices (2007)
"Analytic Realization of Links" (with Anne Pichon), in Intelligence of Low Dimensional Topology 2006 (World Sci. Pub., 2007)
"Complete Intersection Singularities of Splice Type as Universal Abelian Covers" (with J. Wahl), Geometry and Topology 9 (2005)
"Complex Surface Singularities with Homology Sphere Links" (with J. Wahl), Geometry and Topology 9 (2005)
"Extended Bloch Group and the Cheeger-Chern-Simons Class," Geometry and Topology 8 (2004)
Three-Dimensional Link Theory and Invariants of Plane Curve Singularities , with D. Eisenbud (Princeton University Press 1985)
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EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Bonn, Germany
B.S., M.A., University of Adelaide
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Topology
Geometry
Geometric group theory