Clint McCrory
General Sandy Beaver Teaching Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-7403
706-542-2576
706-542-5907 (fax)
clint at math dot uga dot edu
My research interest is the topology of singularities, with applications to algebraic geometry and differential geometry. I am currently working with Adam Parusinski (University of Angers, France) on invariants of real algebraic varieties and semialgebraic sets. In spring 2004 I was a member of MSRI in Berkeley, where I participated in the program Topological Aspects of Real Algebraic Geometry. In the fall of 2005 I visited the Institut Henri Poincare in Paris, and I taught a course "Invariants and singularities of real algebraic varieties" as part of the Special Trimester on Real Geometry at the Centre Emille Borel. In June 2006 I attended my 60th birthday conference at the University of Angers. I'm one of the organizers of the 2009 Georgia Topology Conference.
This fall I'm teaching MATH 4000/6000, Modern Algebra and Geometry I, and MATH 5200/7200, Foundations of Geometry I. I'm also helping Jennifer Belton with GRSC 7770, Graduate Teaching Seminar. Last spring I taught MATH 5210/7210, Foundations of Geometry II, and MATH 3200, Introduction to Higher Mathematics. I had two PhD students finish in 2007, Val Hower and Emille Davie.
For more than six years I was the director of the department's National Science Foundation VIGRE grant (2001-2007). Last spring we were awarded a second VIGRE grant!
I'm involved with the Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics in the UGA Mathematics and Science Education Department. The CPTM is an NSF funded project at UGA and the University of Michigan. I participated in the Center's first summer institute in June 2003. In August 2005 and spring 2006 I organized several workshops in Athens and Atlanta by Tom Banchoff on his Multivariable Calculus Project.
For more information about me, including a list of my research publications, see my vita. My recent papers can be downloaded from the Math ArXiv.
Here's what my four siblings are doing. My sister Raven McCrory is an education professor at Michigan State University. Margie Hicks is a property manager and Alice McCrory is a retired computer consultant in Columbia, South Carolina. My brother Elliott McCrory is a physicist at Fermilab. He's currently visiting CERN in Switzerland for the startup of the Large Hadron Collider.
I live in Athens with my wife Sue Custance. We just built a new house.