Peter Brinkmann

Email

brinkman@sci.ccny.cuny.edu

Office

NA6/278

Office hours

MW 5-6pm

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

You can purchase and download the text for Math 392 here. You only need Chapters 12 and 13.

Exercises for Math 202, not to be turned in: Section 5.1, Problems 17-27 odd, 33; Section 5.2, Problems 5-11 odd, 17, 19, 25, 27, 35

Exercises for Math 392, not to be turned in: Section 13.1, Problems 11-14, 21-24; Section 13.2, Problems 1-13 odd

Teaching

• Spring 2010: Math 20200-CC, MW 11:00-12:15PM NA-6115; F 11:00-11:50AM NA-6115
• Spring 2010: Math 39200-H, MW 06:30-07:45PM NA-6113

Documents

• info202cc.pdf: Syllabus for Math 202, Section CC
• info392.pdf: Course information for Math 39200H
• nonhomog.pdf: Annihilator approach to the method of undetermined coefficients

Publications:

• Joan Birman, Peter Brinkmann, Keiko Kawamuro: Characteristic polynomials of pseudo-Anosov maps, preprint. Abstract
• Peter Brinkmann, Charles Gunn, Steffen Weissmann: jReality --- Interactive Audiovisual Applications Across Virtual Environments, to appear in the Proceedings of IEEE 3D User Interfaces 2010. Abstract
• Peter Brinkmann, Michael Gogins: Doppler effects without equations, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST 2009, Kyoto, Japan. Abstract
• Steffen Weißmann, Charles Gunn, Peter Brinkmann, Tim Hoffmann, Ulrich Pinkall: jReality: a java library for real-time interactive 3D graphics and audio, Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2009. Abstract
• Peter Brinkmann, Steffen Weissmann: Real-time Interactive 3D Audio and Video with jReality, Proceedings of ICMC 2009. Abstract