Chris Truman

My CV.

My research statements: one for specialists and one for a general mathematical audience. These need to be updated - I have recently been studying Reidemeister torsion in Khovanov Homology theory with Juan Ariel Ortiz-Navarro.

This fall I am teaching Math 220 - Calculus and its Applications and Math 436 - Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces. In the past I have also given official departmental study groups for the Topology/Geometry qualifying exam and the Algebra qualifying exam.

Here are the slides from a short talk I gave at Knots in Washington XXII.

My friend Corey suggested this as a teaching statement - I don't know if it's professional enough...

Some Java applets I've written for various reasons:

An applet for the Geometry Lab to help understand Affine Transformations
An applet for Maryland Day to give visitors their very own prime number
Another applet for Maryland Day to give visitors an idea of how RSA Encryption works
An applet to draw geodesics in the Poincaré model of the Hyperbolic plane, and apply certain transformations (the background of this page is obtained from a screenshot of this applet in action)

Various pictures somehow involving me:

Chris Truman
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Maryland, College Park