UGA VIGRE Research Groups, Spring 2005
Applied Mathematics
Mathematical aspects of elecctrical excitation and wave propogation in the heart
Andrew Sornborger
Faculty: Malcolm Adams, Jerome Jungster, Ming Lai, Andrew Sornborger, Paul Wenston
Graduate students: Jason Baldeau, Bree Ettinger, Dong Wook Kim, Jie Yu
Algebraic Geometry
Sheaves and quivers
Faculty: Elham Izadi, Mitch Rothstein
Postdocs: Jiayun Lin
Graduate students: Michael Guy, Sarah Mason (University of Pennsylvania), Peter Petrov, Joe Rusinko, Juhyung Yi.
Mathematical Physics
Clifford Algebras, Spinors and the Dirac Equation
Cal Burgoyne, Robert Varley
Faculty: Cal Burgoyne, Mitch Rothstein, Robert Varley
Graduate students: Adam Fletcher, Emily Pritchett (physics), Sheree Sharp
Undergraduates: Josef Broder, Myles Akin, Lucius Schoenbaum
Algebra
Support varieties for symmetric groups and Lie algebras
David Benson, Brian Boe, Daniel Nakano
http://www.math.uga.edu/~nakano/vigre/vigre.html
Faculty: Dave Benson, Brian Boe, Lenny Chastkofsky, Dan Nakano
Postdocs: Jonathan Kujawa, Nadia Mazza
Graduate Students: Irfan Bagci, Phil Bergonio, Bobbe Cooper, Sarah Hofmann, Kenyon Platt, DongHoon Shin, Steve Winburn, Carrie Wright
Computational Differential Geometry
Faculty: Jason Cantarella
Graduate students: Ted Ashton, Chad Mullikin
Undergraduates: Seth Dowling, John Foreman, Thomas Hanna Wears, Michael Piatek
Number Theory
Postdoc: Clay Petsche
Graduate students: Jacob Keenum, Rob Brice