Yvonne Lai

RTG Assistant Professor 1856 East Hall Department of Mathematics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ann Arbor MI 48109 most efficient way to contact: yxl -a- umich -.- edu

Teaching Fall 2008: Math 105 Data, Functions, and Graphs [course website] [section website] Fall 2009: Math 486 Concepts Basic to Secondary Mathematics [course website] [transformation applets] -- play with linear transformations of f(x) (for f(x)=sin(x) and f(x)=x^3-x). (created with GeoGebra)

Research Interests: Hyperbolic Geometry, Geometric Group Theory Dissertation: An Effective Compactness Theorem for Coxeter Groups, submitted. (supervised by Misha Kapovich)

Upcoming talks/travel, 2008-2009

Oct 9 -- Yale University
Oct 10-12 -- AMS Sectional Meeting, Wesleyan
Oct 15 -- Michigan State University
Nov 21-24 -- Toronto, ON
Jan 5-8 -- JMM, Washington, D.C.
Jan 30-Feb 2 -- Bay Area Teacher's Circle, MSRI; UC Davis
Feb 26-Mar 1 -- SIGMAA-RUME, Raleigh, NC
Apr 16-17 -- Great Circles, MSRI
Apr 22-25 -- NCTM, Washington, D.C.

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