John McCuan's CV

JOHN MCCUAN

School of Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0160 		  Email: mccuan@math.gatech.edu
Phone: (404) 894 4752
Fax: (404) 894 4409

EDUCATION

  •   1995 Stanford University. Ph.D. Mathematics. Advisor: Robert Finn

  •   1989 University of Alabama at Birmingham. B.S. Mathematics.

    EMPLOYMENT AND VISITING POSITIONS

  •   1999-present Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

  •   2001 Lecturer, CMI/MSRI Summer School on the Global Theory of Minimal Surfaces, Berkeley, CA.

  •   1999 Visiting Scholar, Max-Planck-Institute of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences, Leipzig.

  •   1996-99 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, MSRI and University of California, Berkeley.
    Participating Senior Scientists: Craig Evans, David Hoffman, and Robert Osserman.

  •   1996 Visiting Scholar, University of Leipzig.

  •   1995-96 MSRI Postdoctoral Fellow, MSRI, Berkeley, CA.

  •   1993-95 Research Fellow, Stanford University.
    Designed ground based fluid mechanics experiment for NASA STEP and Gravity Probe B Relativity Missions which simulated low gravity by exploiting variational scaling relationships among physical dimension, density difference, and angular velocity.

    TEACHING

    Georgia Tech:

    Undergraduate:

  •   Calculus (Salas, Hille & Etgen; Lecture Notes on Linear Algebra)
  •   Honors Differential Equations (Blanchard, Devaney, and Hall)
  •   Differential Geometry (Adams)
  •   Mathematics of Physical Systems (Boys)
    Graduate:
  •   Partial Differential Equations (Evans)
  •   Riemannian Geometry (do Carmo)
  •   Geometric Measure Theory and Elliptic Regularity (Evans & Gariepy; Lecture Notes)

    University of California, Berkeley:

    Undergraduate:

  •   Ordinary Differential Equations (Birkhoff and Rota)
  •   Algebraic Topology (Classification of 2-d surfaces---Armstrong)
  •   Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences (Boas).

    Stanford University:

  •   Precalculus.
  •   Calculus 19 (Harvard Calculus---first quarter).

    ACE LAB.

    Co-founder, with John Pelesko in 2001, of an applied mathematics laboratory at Georgia Tech. The lab provides facilities for fundamental research and instruction involving physical experiments and demonstrations. See Pelesko's ACE Lab site too.

    SPACE SHUTTLE EXPERIMENT.

    Mathematical results of Symmetry via sphercial reflection and spanning drops in a wedge tested in experiment on Space Shuttle.

    PUBLICATIONS.

    LECTURES.

  •   2001 MSRI/CMI Workshop and Conference on the Global Theory of Minimal Surfaces (4 lectures)
  •   2000 Dixieland Analysis Seminar, Emory University
  •   1999 Oberseminar, University of Bonn
  •   1999 Analysis seminar, University of Leipzig
  •   1999 Working seminar in Geometry, MPI Leipzig
  •   1999 Workshop, Japanese American Mathematics Institute, Johns Hopkins
  •   1999 Pacific Northwest Geometry Seminar, University of Washington
  •   1999 Mathematics Awareness Month Lecture, University of Alaska
  •   1998 Outreach Program for Middle School, MSRI
  •   1997 International Conference on Differential Equations and Dynamic Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
  •   1997 Outreach Program for High School, MSRI
  •   1996 Mathematics Seminar, Lucent Technology
  •   1996 International Conference in Differential Geometry, Rio de Janeiro
  •   1996 Colloquium, University of Leipzig

    AMS.

  •   2002 Atlanta, GA (co-organizer of special session)
  •   2001 Columbia, SC
  •   2001 Chattanooga, TN (two talks; co-organizer of special session)
  •   1999 San Antonio, TX
  •   1998 Davis, CA (two talks)
  •   1997 Chattanooga, TN
    More Talks

    UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED.

  •   P. Neschleba
  •   L. Spietz

    RECENT COLLABORATORS.

  •   Paul Concus (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
  •   Robert Finn (Stanford University)
  •   David Hoffman (MSRI)
  •   John Pelesko (Georgia Tech)
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    FUNDING.

  •   DMS-0103848 Collaborative Research: Capillary Interfaces, with Paul Concus and Robert Finn, August 15, 2001 - July 31, 2004
  •   Tech Fee Award for ACE Lab, with John Pelesko, 2002

    SERVICE.

  •   2002-03 Faculty Advisory Committee, Qualifying Exam Committee, Elections Committee
  •   2001-02 Colloquium Chair, Stelson Lecture Committee, Faculty Advisory Committee
  •   2000-01 Stelson Lecture Committee
  •   1999-2000 Geometry Seminar Organizer