Will Mentor: Doctoral students, Pre-doctoral students
Areas of Expertise
Pure Mathematics,
Research Interests
Geometric Topology, Mathematical Physics
Bio
Dave Auckly earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and then held a postdoctoral position at UT Austin followed by an NSF postdoc at UC Berkeley. He then moved to Kansas State University before taking the Associate Director position at MSRI. His research interests cover a broad range of geometry/topology and overlap with PDE, mathematical physics and algebraic geometry.
He has been very involved in many special educational programs. For example, he helped incorporate mathematics into a residential college at the University of Michigan, and created a unique `Brainstorming and Barnstorming' program at KSU.
He lights up like the Vegas strip when he talks about mathematics. Dave has directed around 30 undergraduate and graduate level research projects and he has been recognized with the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America, and several teaching awards.
Dave is a co-founder and co-director of the Navajo Nation Math Circles project.
For more information about this program see https://navajomathcircles.org
