Aaron Trout, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Hometown: Fort Wayne, IN
Joined Chatham: 2007
ACADEMIC AREAS OF INTEREST
Discrete Differential Geometry, Mathematical Biology, Teaching Methodologies in Undergraduate Mathematics
PERSONAL AREAS OF INTEREST
Hiking, Camping, Reading
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Rice University (Houston, TX), 2005
- B.A., Rice University (Houston, TX), 1999
ORGANIZATIONS
- American Mathematical Society (AMS)
- Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
- Association of Women in Mathematics (AWM)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- The Teaching of Differentials in High School Mathematics, Journal of the Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1994
- The Geometry of Positively Curved Combinatorial 3-Manifolds (submitted to the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, revisions in progress)
- Spaces with Positive Combinatorial Curvature, Thesis, Rice University Press, May 2005
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
- Disceret Differential Geometry, Given at the Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization (ACO) Seminar at Carnegie Mellon University, 2008
- A Rigid Combinatorial Sphere Theorem, Invited Talk at the AMS special session on "Curvature in Group Theory and Combinatorics", April 2005
- Gromov's Bound on the Betti Numbers of Non-negatively Curved Riemannian Manifolds, Rice University, 2003
- An Introduction to Discrete Morse Theory, Rice University, 2002