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Grants and Awards since 1997
- I was awarded a grant from the Overseas Conference Fund, Indiana University Office of International Programs, May 2007.
- I was the 2007 recipient of
the IPFW Sigma Xi
society's
Researcher of the Year Award, and the 2008-09 President of the IPFW chapter.
- In 2007, I was inducted as a faculty member of the IPFW chapter of Phi Kappa Phi.
- I participated in
IPFW's Featured
Faculty public relations campaign, 2006-2008.
- I was the 2005-2006 recipient of IPFW's Pippert Science Research
Scholar Award.
- In 2004, I was inducted as a faculty member of the IPFW chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon.
- I was one of the organizers of a "Physics-Based
Calculus" Workshop at IPFW, for four sessions: June 7-9, 2004, June
16-18, 2003, June
18-19, 2002, and
May 4-6, 2001.
- I
was awarded an IPFW Summer
Faculty Research Grant for 2001. The subject was "Hermitian Symmetry
in Geometry."
- I was awarded an IPFW Summer
Faculty Research Grant for 1999. The subject was "Generalizing
Stereographic Projection."
- I was awarded a Purdue
Research Foundation Summer Faculty Grant for 1998. The subject
was "The Geometry
of Singularities."
Talks since 1997
- "Glaeser's inequality on an
interval," Spring
2010 Indiana Section meeting of the MAA at Franklin College,
April 9.
- "Counterexamples to upper semicontinuity of the Kobayashi-Royden
pseudonorm for rough almost complex structures," at
the Spring
2010 Southeastern Sectional meeting of the American Mathematical
Society, at the University of Kentucky, March 27-28, in the
special
session on Interactions Between Logic, Topology, and Complex
Analysis.
Abstract:
- "Glaeser's inequality on an
interval," Spring
2010 Kentucky Section meeting of the MAA at the University of
Kentucky, March 26.
- "A nonlinear differential inequality and counterexamples for
Hölder continuous almost complex
structures," Analysis
Seminar, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Dec. 1, 2009.
- "Differential equations with no small solutions," Fall 2009
Indiana Section meeting of the MAA at Purdue Calumet, Oct. 17.
- "CR singularities of 4-manifolds
in C3," at
the Spring
2009 Central Sectional meeting of the American Mathematical
Society, at UIUC, March 27-29, in
the special
session on Holomorphic and CR Mappings.
Abstract:
- "CR singularities of 4-manifolds
in C3," at the PDE, Complex Analysis and
Differential Geometry
Seminar, University of Notre
Dame, Nov. 11, 2008.
- "CR singularities of 4-manifolds in C3," at
the CR Geometry
Seminar, University of
Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, April 17, 2008.
- "CR singularities of 4-manifolds in C3," at the
Analysis Seminar, University of
Western Ontario, April 11, 2008.
- "Unfolding
CR singularities of real 4-manifolds in
C5", Special
Session on Complex Analytic Geometry at
the Winter 2007
meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society in London, ON,
Dec. 7-10,
2007.
abstract
- "Parabolas in
Space," Fall
2007 Indiana Section meeting of the MAA at Manchester College,
Oct. 27.
- "Parabolas in Space," at
the 27th
Annual Mathematics Symposium at Western Kentucky University,
Oct. 12-13, 2007.
- "CR
singularities and their unfoldings", at the conference on Rigidity
in Dynamics and Geometry, at the CIRM in
France, May 21-25, 2007.
- "Proper maps
from domains in C2 with transverse circle
action", at the Midwest Several Complex
Variables Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
March 2-4, 2007.
- "Unfolding
CR singularities of real 4-manifolds in
C5", a contributed talk at
the Winter 2006
meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society in Toronto,
Dec. 8-11,
2006.
abstract
- "Unfolding CR singularities of real 4-manifolds in
C5," at the Special
Session on Several Complex Variables, Spring Central
Sectional Meeting of the AMS, at Notre Dame, April 8-9, 2006.
abstract
- "Unfolding CR singularities," at the Geometry/Topology
Seminar, St. Louis University,
Nov. 15, 2005.
- "Unfolding CR singularities," at the Dynamics and
Global Analysis Seminar at the University of Chicago,
November 9, 2005.
- "Critical
points and real surfaces in complex 2-space," at the Fall meeting
of the Indiana Section of the
MAA,
at DePauw
University, Nov. 5, 2005.
- "Unfolding CR singularities," at the Several
Complex Variables Seminar, University of Michigan,
Oct. 24, 2005.
- "Unfolding CR singularities," at the Analysis
Seminar, University of
Wisconsin - Madison, Oct. 18, 2005.
- "CR singularities of real submanifolds in complex space," at the
Analysis Seminar, University of
Western Ontario, Sept. 21, 2005.
- "Visualizing real surfaces in the complex projective plane," a
contributed talk at the Spring 2005 Meeting of the
MAA Indiana Section, at IPFW, April 1, 2005.
- "Real submanifolds of high codimension in complex
n-space," at the Geometric Analysis
Seminar, Michigan State
University, March 22, 2005.
- "Normal forms for some CR singularities," at the Several
Complex Variables Seminar, University of Michigan,
Feb. 14, 2005.
- "A survey of real submanifolds of high codimension in
C n," at the Differential
Geometry Day conference, Eastern Illinois University,
Nov. 6, 2004.
- "Normal forms for some more CR singularities," at the Analysis
Seminar, University of
Wisconsin - Madison, Oct. 12, 2004.
- "CR singularities of real 3-manifolds in
C4," in the CR Geometry and
Singularities special session at the Eastern Section
Meeting of the AMS at Rider University, New Jersey, April 18,
2004.
- "Some examples of real submanifolds of high codimension in
complex projective space," at the Geometric Potpourri
Seminar, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, March 9,
2004.
- "Normal forms for some CR singularities," at the Several Complex
Variables Seminar, University
of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, Nov. 5, 2003.
- "Some examples of real submanifolds of high codimension in
complex projective space," at the Topology Seminar, St. Louis University, May 28, 2003.
- "Some examples of real submanifolds of high codimension in
complex projective space," at the Several
Complex Variables Seminar, University of Michigan,
March 31, 2003.
- "Möbius transformations and ellipses," a contributed talk at the
Spring
2003 meeting of the MAA Indiana Section, at Butler University,
March 29, 2003.
- "Real conics in the inversive plane," a contributed talk at the
Midwest Several Complex Variables conference at the University of Michigan and
Washtenaw Community College, Oct. 19, 2001.
- "Complex projections of real Veronese varieties," a contributed
talk at the AMS
meeting in Columbus, Sept. 22, 2001.
- "Normal forms for some CR singularities," at the Analysis
Seminar, University of
Wisconsin - Madison, March 9, 2001.
- "CR singular immersions of complex projective spaces," at the Geometry
and Topology Seminar, University of Chicago,
Oct. 12, 2000.
- "The real classification of Steiner surfaces," a contributed
talk at the Mathematical Pictures conference at Miami University, Ohio,
Sep. 29, 2000.
- "A survey of real submanifolds of high codimension in
C n," a contributed talk at the Lehigh University Geometry and Topology
Conference, June 13, 2000.
- "CR singular immersions of complex projective spaces," at the Several
Complex Variables Seminar, University of Michigan,
Nov. 19, 1999.
- "Complexification of the CR cross-cap," at the Several
Complex Variables Seminar, University of Michigan,
Dec. 8, 1997.
- "Formal stability of the CR cross-cap," a contributed talk at
the Midwest Several Complex Variables conference at Indiana University -
Bloomington, Nov. 8, 1997.
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Selected expository talks for students or a more general audience:
- "Möbius transformations and
ellipses," Pi Mu
Epsilon, IPFW chapter, Spring 2010 induction.
- "Packing Ellipsoids,"
a PI Math Club
talk, Nov. 17, 2008.
- "A Survey of Projective Geometry," a Sigma Xi talk, April 2007,
and a Pi Math Club Talk, Sept. 28, 2007.
- "Geometry and Soap
Bubbles," Pi Mu
Epsilon, IPFW chapter, Spring 2006 induction.
- "Parabolas in Space," PI Math Club Talk,
Jan. 25, 2006.
- "Geometry and Soap
Bubbles," Undergraduate
Seminar, St. Louis
University, Nov. 16, 2005.
- "Visualizing surfaces in complex 2-space," Colloquium,
Calvin College, Sept. 29, 2005.
- "Geometry and Soap Bubbles," Undergraduate Pizza Seminar, University of Western Ontario,
Sept. 20, 2005.
- "Geometry and Soap Bubbles," at the 2005 Dinner for
Mathematical Sciences Alumni, March 19, 2005.
- "Packing
Ellipsoids," a PI
Math Club talk, Oct. 27, 2004.
- "Geometry and Soap Bubbles," in the "Lunch with a Scientist"
presentation series at Science Central, May 8,
2004.
- "Geometry and Soap Bubbles," a PI Math Club talk,
Feb. 16, 2004.
- "Classifying Conics: Square, Eccentric, or Degenerate," a PI Math Club talk,
Sept. 16, 2002. Photo.
- "Projective Geometry and Computer Graphics," at Lawrence
University, March 7, and at Oberlin
College, March 15, and the IPFW PI Math Club, March 30,
2001.
Published abstracts of talks
(*=presenter)
- A. Coffman* and Y. Pan, "Counterexamples to upper semicontinuity
of the Kobayashi-Royden pseudonorm for rough almost complex
structures," Abstracts of Papers Presented to the AMS
(2) 31 (2010),
p. 416.
- A. Coffman* and Y. Pan, Glaeser's inequality on an
interval, Electronic
Newsletter of the Indiana Section of the MAA, Spring 2010.
- A. Coffman* and Y. Pan, Differential equations with no small
solutions, Electronic
Newsletter of the Indiana Section of the MAA, Fall 2009.
- As of Spring 2009, I am also volunteering as Editor of the Abstracts column of the Indiana MAA Newsletter.
- A. Coffman*, CR singularities of real 4-manifolds
in C3, Abstracts of Papers Presented to the
AMS (2) 30 (2009), p. 436.
- A. Coffman*, Unfolding CR singularities of real 4-manifolds
in C5, Abstracts of Papers Presented to the
AMS (2) 27 (2006), p. 409.
- A. Coffman*, Visualizing real surfaces in the complex
projective
plane, Spring
2005 Newsletter of the Indiana Section of the MAA.
- A. Coffman*, CR singularities of real threefolds in
C4, Abstracts of Papers Presented to the
AMS (3) 25 (2004), p. 459.
- A. Coffman* and M. Frantz, Möbius transformations and
ellipses, Spring
2003 Newsletter of the Indiana Section of the MAA.
- A. Coffman, D. Legg, and Y. Pan*, A series condition for
harmonic extension, Abstracts of Short Communications and
Poster Sessions, International Congress of Mathematicians, Beijing
2002 (Higher Education Press, Beijing, 2002).
- A. Coffman*, Complex projections of real Veronese
varieties, Abstracts of Papers Presented to the AMS (3)
22 (2001), p. 466.
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