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My C. V.

Papers:

Nonvanishing vector fields on orbifolds

(with Carla Farsi)

The index of a vector field on an orbifold with boundary

(with Elliot Paquette, submitted)

A complete obstruction to the existence of nonvanishing vector fields on almost-complex, closed cyclic orbifolds

(submitted)

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)

Two Gauss-Bonnet and Poincaré-Hopf theorems for orbifolds with boundary (my dissertation)

(paper version in Differential Geometry and its Applications 26 (2008), no. 1, 42--51)

Recent/Upcoming Addresses:

June 2-6, 2009

To speak at the Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium

University of Colorado at Boulder

Boulder, CO.

April 25-26, 2009

To speak in the Special Session on Geometry and Topology of Orbifolds at the

2009 Spring Western Section Meeting of the AMS

San Francisco, CA

October 24-26, 2008

To speak in the Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Topology at the

2008 Fall Southeastern Meeting of the AMS

University of Alabama

Huntsville, AL.

October 4-5, 2008

To speak in the Special Session on Moduli Spaces and Singularity Theory at the

2008 Fall Western Section Meeting of the AMS

University of Britich Columbia and the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Vancouver, Canada

October 7^th, 2007

Higher Orbifold Euler Characteristics for General Orbifolds

Lehigh Geometry and Topology Conference

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, PA

March 22-25, 2007

Generalized Orbifold Characteristic Classes

Analysis on Homogeneous Spaces

University of Arizona, Tucson

(slides are right here)

March 16-17, 2007

Euler Classes for Orbifolds

AMS Special Session on Spectral Theory, Orbifolds, Symplectic Reduction, and Quantization (organizer and speaker)

2007 Spring Central Session of the AMS, Oxford OH