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.

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

RMHS

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