Who Am I?

  • Name: Clay Shonkwiler
  • Hometown: Louisville (Boulder County)
  • High School: Fairview
  • College: Sewanee
  • Grad School: Penn
  • Postdocs: Haverford, Georgia
  • Current Job: Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Mathematics at CSU
  • Family: wife Anne, son Porter (3.5 years old)
  • Hobbies: Making animations and bread

Research Summary

I am interested in interpreting problems coming from physics, engineering, etc. as geometry problems, solving the geometry problem, and seeing what it tells us about the original scientific problem.

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Topological Polymers

Balancing Networks

(Not My) Research

Tiling

...?

Spherical Dodecahedron

a.k.a. pentagonal tiling of the sphere

+ Stereographic Projection

= Stereographic Dodecahedron

Rotation

...of what?

z \mapsto \frac{i (z+1)}{z-1}

The Hyperbolic Plane!

4-D Rotations

Enneper’s Surface

Möbius Band

Modular Flow

Geodesic

Acute Triangles

Drum

Catenoid/Helicoid

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