Sean Cleary
- Position
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Graduate Advisor
- cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
- Office
- NA6/274
- Office hours
- see below
- Office phone
- (212) 650-5122
- Homepage
- http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~cleary
Office Hours
- Fall 2009 office hours:
Tuesdays, 5pm-5:30pm, usually
Wednesdays 4:00-4:40pm
Fridays 11:30am-12:15pm
Graduate students, please contact Prof. Cleary via email with questions or for appointments, and see the main Graduate page for information and FAQs.
Please contact me via email with questions or for appointments at other times.
Biography
Associate Professor, The City College of New York, Department of Mathematics
Graduate Faculty, The CUNY Graduate Center
Education:
- Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992
- A.B. Mathematics and Physics, Cornell University, 1987
Research
Geometric and combinatorial group theory, spaces of trees, algorithms for trees.
MathSci reviews of some of my research publications
Teaching
- Fall 2009: Math 20300-DD, M,W 12:30-1:45, Room NA 6113; F 12:30-1:20, Room NA 6113; F 1:30-2:20, Room NA 1511A
- Fall 2009: Math A4900-EF, M,W 2:00-3:40, Room NA 6329
- Spring 2009: Math A6100-EF, M,W 2:00-3:40, Room 6329
- Fall 2008: Math 20300-GH, M 5:00-5:50pm, Room NA 1511A; M,W 6:00-7:40pm, Room NA 1511E
- Fall 2008: Math 39200-F, M,W 3:30-4:45, Room NA 6113
- Spring 2008: Math 36000-M, T,H 11:00-12:15, Room 6329
- Spring 2008: Math 39200-P, T,H 2:00-3:15, Room 4156
- Fall 2007: Math 20300-MM, T,H 11:00-12:15, Room NA 1511E; F 11:00-11:50, Room NA 1511E; F 12:00-12:50, Room NA 1511A
- Fall 2007: Math 32300-RS, T,H 4:00-5:40, Room NA 4115
Publications:
- Jose Burillo and Sean Cleary: Metric properties of braided Thompson's groups, to appear, Indiana Journal of Mathematics. Abstract
- Blake Fordham and Sean Cleary: Minimal length elements of Thompson's groups F(p), to appear, Geometrica Dedicata. Abstract
- Sean Cleary, Murray Elder, Andrew Rechnitzer, and Jennifer Taback: Random subgroups of Thompson's group , to appear, Groups, Geometry and Dynamics.. Abstract
- Jose Burillo, Sean Cleary, Melanie Stein and Jennifer Taback: Combinatorial and metric properties of Thompson's group T, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, #361 ,2009, pp. 631--652. . Abstract
- Jose Burillo, Sean Cleary and Claas Roever: Commensurations and subgroups of finite index of Thompson's group F, Geom. Topol. 12 (2008), no. 3, 1701--1709. Abstract
All publications
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