Walter Neumann
Professor?Emeritus of Mathematics
Department
Mathematics
Office
616 Mathematics Building on Columbia campus
Contact
212-854-5074
wneumann@barnard.edu
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Walter D. Neumann joined the faculty of Barnard in January 2000, having previously held a Personal Chair at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has had continuous research funding since 1976 from the National Science Foundation and the Australian Research Council, resulting in over 120 research articles and monographs in geometry, topology, and group theory. He is managing editor of Geometry & Topology, the leading journal in its field, is on the editorial boards of several other research journals, and is a member of the board of?directors of the nonprofit Mathematical Sciences Publishers (Berkeley). He is on the Human Rights Committee of the New York Academy of Sciences; in 2002 he was elected to the European Academy of Sciences.
Professor Neumann's teaching specialties include combinatorics, modern algebra, algebraic topology and modern analysis.
Ph.D., University of Bonn, Germany
B.S., M.A., University of Adelaide
Topology
Geometry
Geometric group theory
"The end curve theorem for normal complex surface singularities," with J. Wahl, Journal of the European Mathematical SocietyVol. 12 (2010).
"Separating sets, metric tangent cone and applications for complex algebraic germs," with L.Birbrairand A. Fernandez,SelectaMathematicaVol. 16 (2010).
"Quasi-Isometric Classification of Graph Manifold Groups," with J.Behrstock, Duke Mathematical Journal 141 (2008).
"Length andEigenvalueEquivalence," with ChrisLeininger, et al., International Mathematics Research Notices (2007).
"Analytic Realization of Links," with AnnePichon, in Intelligence of Low Dimensional Topology 2006 (World Scientific Publishing, 2007).
"Complete Intersection Singularities of Splice Type as UniversalAbelianCovers," with J. Wahl, Geometry and TopologyVol. 9 (2005).
Three-Dimensional Link Theory andInvariantsof Plane Curve Singularities, with D.Eisenbud(Princeton University Press, 1985).