Peter Brinkmann

Email

brinkman@sci.ccny.cuny.edu

Office

NA6/278

Office hours

MW 1:00 - 1:50 pm

Office phone

(212) 650-5112

Biography

Assistant Professor, The City College of New York, Department of Mathematics

Graduate Faculty, The CUNY Graduate Center, Doctoral Program in Computer Science

Education

• Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Utah, 2000
• Dipl.-Math., University of Bonn, 1997
• M.Sc., University of Tennessee, 1995

A slightly more complete version of my curriculum vitae is available here.

Research

I work in geometric group theory and low-dimensional geometry and topology, with a focus on algorithmic questions. I also dabble in software.

I recently got my visualization and sonification lab off the ground. Check it out!

Teaching

Current homework assignment for Math A6300GH:

• Due Monday, 11/23/09: Section 31, Problems 1, 2; Section 32, Problem 1; Section 33, Problem 7; Section 43, Problems 4, 5; Section 45, Problem 3

Past homework assignments for Math A6300GH:

• Due Wednesday, 10/28/09:
• Let X be a topological space, and let C be a connected component. Is C open? Is C closed? Prove or give a counterexample.
• Let X be a metric space, and let C be a subset of X. Show that f: X -> R, x -> d(x, C) is continuous.
• Section 23, Problems 2, 9; Section 24, Problems 2, 3
• Not to be turned in: Section 23, Problems 1, 2, 4, 9, Section 24, Problems 2, 3, 5
• Not to be turned in: Section 17, Problems 9, 11, 13, 15; Section 18, Problems 8, 13; Section 19, Problems 6, 7, 8; Section 20, Problem 3

Current homework assignment for Math 34600E:

• Due Monday, 11/23/09: Section 5.2, Problem 7; Section 5.3, Problem 5; Section 5.4, Problem 7; Section 5.5, Problem 6(c); Section 5.6, Problem 3
• Not to be turned in: Section 5.2, Problems 7, 8, 11, 14; Section 5.3, Problems 2, 3, 6; Section 5.4, Problems 2, 3, 8; Section 5.5, Problem 6; Section 5.6, Problems 2, 5

Past homework assignments for Math 34600E:

• Not to be turned in: Section 5.1, Problems 1-7 odd, Section 5.2, Problems 1-6
• Due 10/28/09: Section 4.2, Problems 1, 3, 20, Section 4.3, Problems 18, 19
• Not to be turned in: Section 2.1, Problems 1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17, 19, 21; Section 2.2, Problems 2, 5, 7, 9; Section 4.2, Problems 1, 2, 3
• Not to be turned in: Section 1.3, Problems 3, 4, 6; Section 1.4, Problems 4, 11, 13; Section 1.5, Problems 6, 7, 8; Section 1.6, Problems 1, 5, 9
• Not to be turned in: Section 1.2, Problems 20, 22, 25, 26; Section 1.3, Problems 1 (a), (f), (g), 5 (a-h)

Teaching

• Fall 2009: Math 34600-E, M,W 2:00-3:15, Room NA 5126
• Fall 2009: Math A6300-GH, M,W 6:00-7:40, Room NA 6329
• Spring 2009: Math 20300-BB, M,W 9:30-10:45, Room 6115; F 9:30-10:20, Room 1511A; F 10:30-11:20, Room 1511E
• Fall 2008: Math 37500-C, M,W 11:00-12:15, Room NA 4113
• Fall 2008: Math 39100-E, M,W 2:00-3:15, Room NA 6114
• Spring 2008: Math A4300-FG, M,W 4:00-5:40, Room NA 7/219
• Fall 2007: Math 39100-M, T,H 11:00-12:15, Room NA 6112

Documents

• info346.pdf: Math 34600E info sheet
• infoa6300.pdf: Math A6300 info sheet
• nonhomog.pdf: Annihilator approach to the method of undetermined coefficients

Publications:

• Peter Brinkmann, Steffen Weissmann: Real-time Interactive 3D Audio and Video with jReality, to appear in the proceedings of ICMC 2009. Abstract
• Michael S. Ambinder, Ranxiao Frances Wang, James A. Crowell, George K. Francis, Peter Brinkmann: Human Four-Dimensional Spatial Intuition in Virtual Reality , to appear in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Abstract
• Peter Brinkmann: Detecting automorphic orbits in free groups, submitted for publication. Abstract
• Peter Brinkmann: Dynamics of free group automorphisms, to appear. Abstract
• Peter Brinkmann: Mondrian Music Description Language and Sequencer, International Computer Music Conference Proceedings, 2006. Abstract