Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center
Contact me at sormanic at gmail using any pronouns.
See this Googledoc about Myself. I support all students, immigrants of all nations, with or without documentation, and I support the LGBTQ community.
Why I use gmail, googledocs, googlescholar and googlebooks.
Anyone who wishes to learn see my Free for All asynchronous online math major courses here. Sadly my Youtube Channel was removed in June 2025 (so none of the the videos I created and playlist links work any longer) but the notes are still there. Questions by email are welcome!
A note on Impressing Professors and seeking letters of recommendation.
This Year:
Spring 2025: (office hours: 5-6pm, 8-9pm Mon/Wed)
Vector Calculus, MAT226, Lehman College (in person Mon/Wed evenings)
Winter 2025: (office hours: 7-8pm Thursdays)
Geometry Research Team, Lehman College (in person Thurdays 2-7pm)
Fall 2024:
Linear Algebra, MAT313, Lehman College (hybrid, in person Mon evenings)
Geometry Research Team, Lehman College (online Wed evenings)
Courses in 2020-2024 (mostly taught Asynchronously Online):
Spring 2024:
Linear Algebra, MAT313, Lehman College,"free for all"
Fall 2023:
Differential Geometry, MAT432, Lehman College, "free for all"
Differential Geom (for Masters), MAT733, Lehman College,
Spring 2023:
Linear Algebra, MAT313, Lehman College,
Fall 2022:
Linear Algebra, MAT313, Lehman College,
Research in Geometric Analysis, Eigenmaps and Manifold Learning
Summer 2022:
Research in Geometric Analysis, Eigenmaps and Manifold Learning
Spring 2022:
Analysis I, MAT320/MAT640, Lehman College, "free for all"
Research in Geometric Analysis, Eigenmaps and Manifold Learning
Fall 2021:
Vector Calculus, MAT226, Lehman College, "free for all"
Linear Algebra, MAT313, Lehman College,
Summer 2021:
Fourier Institute Summer School Lectures, Fourier Institute, France
Research in Manifold Learning, Lehman College, with Prof Lin,
Spring 2021:
Analysis I, MAT320/MAT640, Lehman College,
Axiomatic Geometry, MAT345, Lehman College, "free for all"
Advanced Euclidean Geometry, MAT630, Lehman College,
Research in Manifold Learning, Lehman College, joint with Prof Lin,
Summer-Fall 2020:
Linear Algebra, MAT313, Lehman College,
Algebra and Number Systems, MAT314, Lehman College, "free for all"
Modern Algebra, MAT615, Lehman College,
Research in Manifold Learning, Lehman College, joint with Prof Lin.
Syllabi of Older Courses: (that were taught in person)
Winter-Spring 2020:
Differential Geometry, MAT432/733, Lehman College Mon/Wed 6:00-7:40 pm (moved online mid semester due to Covid)
Metric Geometry Team, CUNYGC
Fall 2019:
Analysis I, MAT320/MAT640, (free text) Lehman College, Mon/Wed 2:00-3:40 pm
Linear Algebra, MAT313, (free text) Lehman College, Mon/Wed 6-7:40 pm
Special Topics in Metric Geometry, Math 86500 CUNYGC, Th 6:30-8:30 pm
Spring 2019: (on leave from CUNYGC and Lehman College)
GH and SWIF Convergence of Smocked Metric Spaces, SCGP and Lehman
Winter 2019: (on leave from CUNYGC and Lehman College)
Fall 2018: (on leave from CUNYGC and Lehman College)
IAS GMT Reading Seminar, IAS, Princeton
Summer 2018:
Lehman Student Summer Seminar, Lehman College 7:30-9 pm Wednesdays
Spring 2018:
Calculus I MAT175, Lehman College, Mon/Wed 2-3:40pm
Calculus on Manifolds, MAT434/MAT734, Mon/Wed evening
Fall 2017:
Analysis I, MAT320/MAT640, Lehman College, Mon/Wed 2:00-3:40 pm
Linear Algebra, MAT313, Lehman College, Mon/Wed 6-7:40 pm
Summer 2017:
Spring 2017:
Axiomatic Geometry MAT345/630, Lehman College, 2-3:40 pm M//W, Gillet
Vector Calculus MAT226 Lehman College, 6-7:40 pm M/W, Gillet
LSAMP Metric Geometry Undergrad Research Group, Lehman College, M/W 4:15-5:15pm
Fall 2016:
Calculus I, MAT175, Lehman College, 2-3:40 pm M//W, Gillet 205
Linear Algebra, MAT313, Lehman College, 6-7:40 pm M/W, Gillet 205
LSAMP Metric Geometry Undergrad Research Group, Lehman College, M 8-9pm / W 4:15-5:15pm
Summer 2016:
Spring 2016:
Calculus I MAT175, Lehman College, Mon/Wed 6:00-7:40 pm
Analysis I, MAT320/MAT640, Lehman College, Mon/Wed 2:00-3:40 pm
Fall 2015:
Precalculus, MAT172, Lehman College, 3-4:40 pm M//W
Linear Algebra, MAT313, Lehman College, 6-7:40 pm M/W
Summer 2015:
USTC Course on Ricci Curvature and Convergence, Hefei, China
Spring 2015:
Linear Algebra, MAT313.ZF81, Lehman College, 7:50-9:30 pm MW
Fall 2014:
Calculus, MAT175.01, Lehman College, 4:00-5:50 pm MW
Linear Algebra, MAT313.ZF81, Lehman College 6:00-7:49 pm MW
Spring 2014:
Precalculus, MAT172CN, Lehman College, 4:10-5:50 pm MW
Analysis I, MAT320/640, Lehman College, 7:50-9:30pm MW
Metric Geometry Reading Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, 3:00-5:00 pm
Modern Geometry, MAT345/630, Lehman College, cancelled, now a reading course.
Fall 2013: (Visiting Research Professor at MSRI)
Converging Spaces Reading Seminar, MSRI, Berkeley, CA, Fall 2013
Summer 2013:
Metric Geometry Reading Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, June 2013
Comparison Geometry, ICMS, Scotland, July 2013
Spring 2013:
Analysis II, Lehman College, Spring 2012
Calculus, Lehman College, Spring 2012
Metric Geometry Reading Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, Spring 2012
Fall 2012:
Differential Geometry, CUNYGC, Spring-Summer 2012
Metric Geometry Reading Seminar, CUNYGC, Fall 2012
Past semesters: (links to these courses can be found here)
Geometric Measure Theory Reading Seminar, CUNYGC, Spring-Summer 2012
Metric Geometry Reading Seminar, CUNYGC, Spring-Summer 2012
Sabbatical (second half), Spring 2012
Analysis I, MAT320, Lehman College, Fall 2011,
Geometric Measure Theory Reading Group, Fall 2011
Sabbatical (first half), Spring 2011
Analysis I, MAT320, Lehman College, Fall 2010.
Axiomatic Geometry, MAT345, Lehman College, Spring 2010
Analysis I, MAT320, Lehman College, Fall 2009
Analysis and Topology Transition, Graduate Center, Prep Course, Bridge to the Doctorate, Summer 2009.
Geometric Measure Theory, Independent Study, Graduate Center, Spring 2009.
Metric Spaces, LSAMP Independent Study, Lehman College, Spring 2009.
Analysis I, MAT320, Lehman College, Fall 2008
Topics in Mathematics, Independent Study for Senior Math Majors, Lehman College, Fall 2008
Analysis II, MAT321, Spring 2008
Differential Geometry, MAT432, Spring 2008,
Graduate Differential Geometry, MAT733, Spring 2008
Precalculus, MAT172CN, Lehman College, College Now, Spring 2008.
Analysis I, MAT320, Fall 2007, GI 305
Precalculus, MAT172CN, Lehman College, College Now, Fall 2007, GI 205.
Discrete Mathematics, MAT237 for the College Now, Fall 2006.
Calculus I, MAT175, Lehman College, Spring 2006.
Precalculus, MAT172CN, Lehman College, College Now, Spring 2006.
Metric Geometry, CUNY Graduate Center, Fall 2005
Precalculus, MAT172, Lehman College, Fall 2005
Intermediate Calculus I, MAT 226, Lehman College, Spring 2005.
Intermediate Calculus II, MAT227, Spring 2003.
Geometry, MAT346, Lehman College, Fall 2002
Noneuclidean Geometries, MAT636, Lehman College, Fall 2002
Intermediate Calculus I, MAT226, Lehman College, Fall 2002
Elements of Linear Algebra, Lehman College, Fall 2000 (using Kolman).
Calculus I Laboratory , MAT155, Lehman College, Fall, 2000 (using Larson).
Calculus I , MAT175, Lehman College, Spring 2000 (using Stewart).
Calculus I Laboratory, MAT155, Lehman College, Spring 2000 (using Stewart).
Analysis II, Johns Hopkins, Spring 1999.
Analysis I, Johns Hopkins, Fall 1998.
Introduction to Differential Geometry, Johns Hopkins, Fall 1998.
Partial Differential Equations, Johns Hopkins, Spring 1998.
Riemannian Geometry, Johns Hopkins, Fall-Spring 1998.
Some Projects for Calculus II that I designed for use at New York University.
Introductory Lessons for Real Analysis in dvi, ps, pdf (sans pictures) that I designed for Math112 at Harvard University and used at Johns Hopkins as well. It was used for 1 month. See course description above.