Fall 2004:   Integrated Engineering Calc I (0220) and The Big Ideas of Mathematics: a Historical Perspective.

Other course materials:   Calc II (0230), and Introductory Analysis (0450) Chaos Project.
I have also lectured Graduate Topology I and II (2700 and 2701).

I welcome interest in undergraduate and graduate research:
  During Summer 2001 Rolf Suabedissen explored the Symmetries of 3D Space. Over Fall and Spring 2001-02 Jasun Gong and Rupert Venzke investigated the Geometry and Topology of Newton's Method. Kim Kelley of Westinghouse High School researched the Topology of Borromean Rings and Brunnian Links. Kim won a first prize and a $4000 studentship for this project.

My research interests lie in Analytic Topology. Especially function spaces, hyperspaces, and automorphism groups. Here are some recent talks (all as PDF files)

• A colloquium talk on Borromean Rings and Brunnian Links .
• Three lectures on Polish Groups, Polish Actions and Applications, presented at the 8th Galway Topology Colloquium (June 2004)
  
  1. Background Material
  2. The Problem of Classification
  3. Polish Groups Strive for Freedom - but Never Quite Make It.

The Topology Atlas is a good place to find out more about topology. Collaborators include: Robin Knight (Oxford), Chris Good (Birmingham), David McIntyre, Sina Greenwood, Abdul Mohammad (Auckland).

Graduate Students:   Bojana Pejic and Feng Ziqin (starting Fall 2004).
Andrew Marsh (PhD Pittsburgh 2004), Aneirin Glyn (DPhil Oxford 2002), Steven Fisher (DPhil Oxford, 1999), Gareth Fairey (DPhil Oxford, 2000), Joseph Lo (DPhil Oxford, 2001).

I am the editor of the Math Department MathZine. And de facto web master.
Frustrated by the difficulties of putting math on the web, I became involved in the MathML in Mozilla project. See MathZilla for details.

My path to Pittsburgh went through Oxford (BA 1990, DPhil 1993), Auckland (New Zealand), Moscow and Galway (Ireland). On the way I got to rock climb the sea cliffs of Wales; ski down an active volcano; take a river cruise from Moscow to St Petersburg and scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef. I also got to meet some amazing people. When not doing something crazy (ie most of the time) I like to take part in sports, I love to read, and I must admit to an addiction to surfing the web - from which affliction you to are suffering if you are reading this;-)