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

 

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)

 

  • Math 121-01: Calculus I

MWF 9:00—9:50am               Kennedy 207

R 8:30—9:20am

syllabus                       schedule

 

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.

 

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

 

 

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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