Service and Outreach
Editorial Boards
Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces, Versita.
Le Matematiche, Universita’ di Catania.
Meetings/conferences/workshops organized.
April 2023, Special Session on Interactions between analysis, PDE, and probability in non-smooth spaces, Spring 2023 Central Sectional Meeting #1186(co-organized with Nageswari Shanmugalingam and Jeremy Tyson).
May 2022, Workshop in Analysis on Metric Spaces, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan. (co-organized with Qing Liu, Shin-ichi Ohta and Nageswari Shanmugalingam and Xiaodan Zhou)
April 2021, Special Session Nonsmooth Analysis and Geometry (with G. Speight and N. Shanmugalingam) Sectional Meeting, AMS University of Cincinnati (virtual)
June 2020-June 2021, AMS Mathematics Research Communities, Analysis in Metric Spaces (co-organizer with Mario Bonk, Piotr Hajlasz, Nageswari Shanmugalingam and Jeremy Tyson).
April 2019, Special session SubRiemannian Geometry and CR Geometric Analysis (co-organized with F. Baudoin) Sectional Meeting, AMS Hartford, CT
January, 2016. Co-organizer (co-organized with Jeremy Tyson) of the AMS special session on Analysis and Geometry in non-smooth metric measure spaces, at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Seattle, WA.
January, 2012, AIM worskhop “Mapping theory in metric spaces” (co-organized with Jeremy Tyson and Stefan Wenger).
April 15-17, 2010, 35th Spring Lecture Series “Minimal surfaces and mean curvature flow”. Main speaker: William Minicozzi (Johns Hopkins). Co-organized with Andrew S. Raich.
March 27-28, 2010, Special Session on Partial Differential Equations in Geometry and Variational Problems, co-organizer with Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (2010 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting) Meeting # 1057
November 3-4, 2006. AMS Fall Southeastern Section Meeting, University of Arkansas, Special Session on Subelliptic PDE and sub-Riemannian spaces. (co-organized with Scott Pauls and Jeremy Tyson).
March 9-13, 2005. Workshop: Minimal surfaces, Sub-Elliptic PDE's and Geometric Analysis, Dartmouth College (co-organized with Scott Pauls and Jeremy Tyson).
A complete list of my work as conference organizer can be found on my CV
International Courses/Summer Schools
July, 2012. C.I.M.E course, Cetraro, Italy, One of the two main Lecturers.
August 2008. Lecturer at the 2008 Summer School in Jyvaskyla (Finland), One of the two main lecturers.
Fall 2004 Keynote speaker at New Mexico Analysis Seminar 2004 Lectures on Mean Curvature Flow in the Heisenberg Group. (one of 2 keynote speakers)
Outreach and Work to advance Equity and Inclusion
2015-2019: In the Fall 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 I served as lead organizer for the mathematical sciences department portion of the WPI STEM Faculty Launch program. This is an intensive 2-day workshop aimed at increasing representation of underrepresented minorities in STEM fields in academia. The mathematical sciences component involves inviting each year about 10 postdocs and finishing doctoral students from other universities, for a professional development program that addresses job search preparation, and starting a tenure track appointment.
2015-2018: I served as lead organizer in the Mathematics Institute for Secondary Teaching (MIST), held at WPI. This is a workshop aimed at high school teachers who wish to integrate real-world applications of mathematics and statistics into their curriculum and projects. The workshop is funded by RIT and Toyota, with additional support from the WPI department of Mathematical Sciences. The other organizers are John Goulet, Stephan Sturm, and Suzanne Weekes.
July, 2018. co-organizer in the Mathematics Institute for Secondary Teaching (MIST), held at WPI.
July, 2017. Lead organizer in the Mathematics Institute for Secondary Teaching (MIST), held at WPI.
June, 2015. Lead organizer in the Mathematics Institute for Secondary Teaching (MIST), held at WPI.
2009-2014: I served as the US coordinator and a project director for the US Dept. of Education FIPSE award “Atlantis project; CAP: Excellence in complex analysis and PDE mobility”. This project provides funding and institutional support for the exchange of graduate students in Mathematics between a consortium of US institutions (University of Arkansas, University of Pittsburgh and Temple University) and European Institutions (Universita’ di Bologna, Italy; Universite’ de Rennes, France; Universite’ Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France; Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain). This award’s activity is from 2009 to 2013, and the co-PI’s in the US are Juan Manfredi and Cristian Gutierrez. The EU coordinator and project lead is Giovanna Citti.
2009-2011. As Undergraduate Coordinator in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Arkansas I have initiated an outreach tutoring program where Math Majors would provide tutoring to high school students in three local high schools. Prior to the beginning of the tutoring, the volunteers are trained by experienced staff at the University of Arkansas ELC Tutoring Center and are paired with volunteer high school teachers to arrange for ‘shadowing’ the teacher during his/her academic activities over a period of time. The activity has proved to be a win-win situation both for the UA undergraduate math majors, for the high school students and for the high school teachers. So far about 100 students have been involved in this program, which continues under the direction of the new Undergraduate Coordinator.
In collaboration with Loredana Lanzani, I have started the public lecture series (now associated to the University of Arkansas Spring Lecture Series). This is a series of lectures, aimed to the public at large, with the explicit goal of communicating to large, non-expert, audiences some of the deepest and most pervasive aspects of mathematics and its applications. The average audience ranges at about 200 people. The lecturers are chosen among the foremost communicators in mathematical sciences and include Jeffrey Weeks, Michael Lacey, Frank Morgan, Dan Rockmore, etc. ... A video library for these lectures, publicly available from the department of mathematical sciences website is being developed.
Yet another form of outreach to high school students is in the form of the Open houses talks at WPI aimed at propsective students and their parents with the purpose to introduce them to the math major at WPI.
Professional Service
2020-2021- Co-leader of the Math Chairs Workshop organized by the American Mathematical Society at the three Joint Mathematical Meetings JMM2020, JMM2021 and JMM2022.
April 19-20. 2013, presentation, QEM (Quality Education for Minorities) Workshop for Research Initiation. Baltimore, MD.
2011-2013, Associate Director for the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
I have served as panelist and panel chair for the Mathematics Panel at the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships 2008-2011, 2013. I am one of the NSF GRF advisors at the University of Arkansas.
I serve routinely in disciplinary panels at the NSF.
I serve as referee for 10-20 papers each year.
I have served as Undergraduate Coordinator for the department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Arkansas 2009-2011. Since 1999 I have served in several departmental committees, including hiring, graduate and undergraduate committees.