Christopher Hruska

  • Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Education

  • PhD Cornell University, 2002
  • BS, with honors, Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, 1995
  • BS, Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, 1995

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
MATH 341-001 Seminar: Introduction to the Language and Practice of Mathematics MW 11:30am-12:45pm
MATH 553-001 Differential Geometry MW 10am-11:15am
MATH 553G-001 Differential Geometry MW 10am-11:15am
MATH 899-001 Seminar in Advanced Mathematics Topology MW 2:30pm-3:45pm

Research Interests

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2002-2005
  • NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 2002-2006

Selected Service and Projects

  • Co-organizer, 2008 Annual Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference
  • Organizer, Annual Marden Lecture
  • Chair, Mathematical Sciences Colloquium Committee
  • Principal Investigator, "Relative Hyberbolicity and Nonpositive Curvature", NSF Grant, 2008-2011
  • Packing subgroups in relatively hyperbolic groups. Geometric Topology, 13 (2009), no. 4, 1945--1988, with Daniel T. Wise
  • Commensurability invariants for nonuniform tree lattices. Israel J. Math, 152 (2006), 125--142, with Benson Farb

Selected Publications

Hruska, Geoffrey C., and Ruane, Kim. Connectedness properties and splittings of groups with isolated flats.
Hruska, Geoffrey C., Stark, Emily, and Tran, Hung C.Surface group amalgams that (don't) act on 3-manifolds.
Hruska, Geoffrey C., and Nguyen, Hoang T.Distortion of surfaces in graph manifolds.
Hruska, Geoffrey C., and Wise, Daniel T. “Finiteness properties of cubulated groups” Compositio Mathematica 150. (2014): 453-506.

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