Christopher W.
Seaton
Associate Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science at
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Contact:
E-mail: seatonc@rhodes.edu
Phone: 901-843-3721
Office: 320 Ohlendorf
Snail Mail: Math and Computer
Science Department
Rhodes College
2000 N. Parkway
Memphis, TN 38112
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Teaching
(Spring, 2013):
- Math 115-01: Applied Calculus
MWF 2:00—2:50 pm, Barret
033
syllabus (schedule and materials available on Moodle)
- Math 115-02: Applied Calculus
MWF 3:00—3:50 pm, Barret
033
syllabus (schedule and materials available on Moodle)
MWF 9:00—9:50am Kennedy
207
R 8:30—9:20am
syllabus schedule
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Office
Hours (Spring, 2013):
MWF: 10:00—10:50
am
Thurs: 9:30—10:20
am,
2:00—2:50
pm
Students are welcome to make appointments at other
times. My quantity of regularly
scheduled office hours is by no means representative of the amount of time I
expect to work with students outside of the classroom.
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Click
here to find a more complete schedule.
C. V.
Math 115:
Applied Calculus Course Development Materials
Publications and Preprints:
(click here for some supplemental materials)
An orbit Cartan type decomposition of the inertia space of SO(2m) acting on R2m
(with John Wells; submitted)
Inertia spaces of proper Lie
group actions and their topological properties
(with Carla Farsi and Markus Pflaum; submitted)
Functional equations for
orbifold wreath products
(with Carla Farsi; submitted)
On orbifold criteria for
symplectic toric quotients
(with Carla Farsi and Hans-Christian Herbig; to appear in Symmetry, Integrability, and Geometry:
Methods and Applications)
Gamma-extensions of the
spectrum of an orbifold
(with Carla Farsi and Emily Proctor; to appear in the Transactions
of the American Mathematical Society)
Extensions of the Euler--Satake characteristic for nonorientable
3-orbifolds and indistinguishable examples
(with Ryan Carroll, to appear in Involve: a Journal of
Mathematics)
Extensions of the Euler—Satake characteristic and point singularities
of orientable 3—orbifolds
(with Ryan Carroll, Kodai
Mathematical Journal 36 (2013), 179—188)
Free and free abelian Euler-Satake characteristics of nonorientable
2-orbifolds
(with John Schulte and Bradford Taylor; Topology
and its Applications 158 (2011), 2244—2255)
Algebraic structures associated to orbifold wreath products
(with Carla Farsi Journal of
K-Theory 8 (2011), 323—338)
Generalized
orbifold Euler characteristics for general orbifolds and wreath products
(with Carla Farsi; Algebraic
and Geometric Topology 11 (2011), 523—551)
Classifying closed 2-orbifolds
with Euler characteristics
(with Whitney DuVal, John Schulte, and Bradford Taylor; Glasgow
Mathematical Journal 52 (2010), no. 3, 555—574)
Generalized
twisted sectors of orbifolds
(with Carla Farsi; Pacific
Journal of Mathematics 246 (2010), no. 1, 49—74)
Nonvanishing
vector fields on orbifolds
(with Carla Farsi; Transactions
of the American Mathematical Society 362 (2010), 509—535)
The index
of a vector field on an orbifold with boundary
(with Elliot Paquette, Involve: a Journal of
Mathematics 2 (2009), no. 2, 161—175)
Two Gauss-Bonnet and Poincaré-Hopf
theorems for orbifolds with boundary
(paper version in Differential
Geometry and its Applications 26 (2008), no. 1, 42—51)
Characteristic
classes of bad orbifold vector bundles
(Journal
of Geometry and Physics 57 (2007), no. 11, 2365—2371)
K-theory of crepant
resolutions of complex orbifolds with SU(2) singularities
(Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics
37 (2007), no. 5, 1705—171)
A complete obstruction to the
existence of nonvanishing vector fields on almost-complex, closed cyclic
orbifolds
Recent/Upcoming Presentations:
April 14, 2013
The inertia
space associated to a proper Lie group action as a stratified space
Joint work with Carla
Farsi and Markus Pflaum
Spring Western
Sectional Meeting of the AMS,
University of
Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO
September
12, 2012
A
stratification of the orbit space of a G-manifold
for a compact Lie group G
Joint
work with Carla Farsi and Markus Pflaum
Centre
for Quantum Geometry and Moduli Spaces,
Aarhus
University, Aarhus, Denmark
January 21—22, 2012
An
explicit stratification of the inertia space for a connected, compact Lie
group action
Joint
work with Carla Farsi and Markus Pflaum
Groupoidfest
2011,
University
of Nevada, Reno
Reno,
NV
July
28, 2011
On
orbifold criteria for Hamiltonian toric quotients
Joint
work with Carla Farsi and Hans-Christian Herbig
Workshop
on Recent developments on Orbifolds
Chern
Institute of Mathematics
Tianjin,
China
August 4, 2010
Gamma-extensions
of orbifold Euler characteristics
Joint work
with Ryan Carroll, Whitney DuVal, Carla Farsi, John Schulte, and Bradford
Taylor
Centre
for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces,
Aarhus
University, Aarhus, Denmark
November 18,
2009
Introduction
to orbifolds and orbifold groupoids
Seminar on
stacks and groupoids
University
of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO
October 11, 2009
Invariants associated
to orbifold sector decompositions
Joint work with Carla
Farsi
Mellon-23 Faculty
Workshop on global Riemannian
geometry, orbifolds,
and related topics
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT
September 28, 2009
Sector
decompositions for orbifolds
Joint work
with Carla Farsi
Kempner
Colloquium
University
of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO
June 2-6, 2009
Orbifold
groupoids, sectors, and wreath products
Joint work with Carla Farsi
Great
Plains Operator Theory Symposium
University
of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder,
CO
April
25-26, 2009
Generalized
twisted sectors and applications
Joint
work with Carla Farsi
Special
Session on Geometry and Topology of Orbifolds at the
2009
Spring Western Section Meeting of the AMS
San Francisco, CA