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 |
|---|---|
| MATH 341-001 | Seminar: Introduction to the Language and Practice of Mathematics |
| MATH 553-001 | Differential Geometry |
| MATH 553G-001 | Differential Geometry |
| MATH 899-001 | Seminar in Advanced Mathematics Topology |
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.