Outreach

Part of the job of a mathematician is to reach out to the community at large and provide information about mathematics to the general public.   We may also voluntarily provide assistance to fellow mathematicians or future mathematicians.   Here are links to some of my own outreach and to sites that were useful to me over the years.

Descriptions of my Research for the General Audience

• What is Riemannian Geometry? A description for the nonmathematician

• Metric Geometry

• Measuring the Stability of the Universe

Inspiring Talks by Mathematicians (many are videos)

• Research talks by diverse mathematicians for undergraduate math majors

• Each talk is followed by a Q&A about what it was like to pursue a doctorate

Advice for Doctoral Students and Postdocs

• For doctoral students at CUNYGC (might be useful to others too)

• How to write up a paper (in Geometric Analysis)

• How to present your research (to a possibly aggressive expert audience)

Lives of  Mathematicians:

• The Association of Women in Mathematics honored me with a service award in 2015.

• AWM-JMM Panels I have co-organized.

• The Diverse Personal Lives of Mathematicians Webforum.

• A personal story of how my research was affected by maternity and motherhood and other factors.

• An AMS Notices article Advocating for Diversity in Faculty Hiring

• The American Association of University Professors: on women's issues and on family issues.

• The Noether Lecturers: a list and a call for more information

• The WomeninMath Google Group and letter of Alexander-Taylor-Uhlenbeck

• Lifting a Ton of Feathers, a book by Paula J. Caplan I consulted often when tenure track.

• MomsRising.org: do you know 163 countries have paid maternity leave? MomsRising fights for it state by state in the US.

• New York Women in Mathematics Network

• Many of my Lehman College students are parents. Here is a story from Lehman Lightning (on page 6) about my student Ms. Peralta.

Mathematics in the Bronx:

• Mathematics Teacher Transformation Institute, training teacher leaders for math junior high and high school teachers in the Bronx.   I was a PI of this NSF grant.

• Work with High School Students: Math Circle, College Now, Graphics by Penelope Chang

• A webpage Explore Geometry for Bronx High School teachers created with students in MAT 636 in Fall 2002.

• The Lehman College Math and Computer Science Club has lots of useful and fun links.

• Lehman College Calculus Webpage for use by faculty and students who want to consult the official syllabi.

• The Lehman College Computer Science and Mathematics Mentorship & Scholarship Program.

• Bronx Community College Math and Computer Science Department is an excellent place to study math before coming to Lehman College.

Mathematics of Perelman's solution of the Poincare Conjecture using Hamilton's Ricci Flow:

• Mathematical editing of the popular book Poincare's Prize by Szpiro

• An Introduction to Perelman for undergraduate math majors (created in 2002-2010)

• Notes taken of his lectures at Stony Brook (for the mathematician)