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
