New faculty at CUNY's Graduate Center Aug 30, 2011

Congratulations to several CSI faculty on their admittance to the graduate faculty in mathematics:

• Prof. Champanerkar is a co-organizer of the Geometry and Topology seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center. Prof. Champanerkar's area of research is hyperbolic 3-manifolds and knot theory. Thurston established the importance of hyperbolic geometry and geometric invariants in the study of 3-manifolds and knot theory. He is interested in the deformations of hyperbolic structures on 3-manifolds and interactions between hyperbolic geometry with number theory.
• Prof. Kofman’s current research is in geometric topology, with a focus on relating knot theory and geometry. He is a co-coordinator of the CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar which meets Tuesday afternoons at the Graduate Center.
• Prof. Maher is interested in geometric topology, particularly the mapping class groups of surfaces, 3-manifolds, and geometric group theory, and is one of the coordinators of the “CUNY Geometry and Topology Seminar” which meets Tuesday afternoons at the GC.
• Prof. Vukadinovic writes “Broadly speaking, my research interest lies in analysis and applied mathematics. More specifically, I am interested in partial differential equations arising in fluid dynamics and materials science. My current research focuses on some models for non-Newtonian complex fluids, such as the Doi model arising in the theory of nematic liquid crystalline polymers.”