INTRODUCTION
Office Hours for Fall 2015: MTWR, 4-5 p.m., or by appointment.
Education & Training
I received my bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Harvard University and my Ph.D. in Mathematics from CornellUniversity, where my advisor was Allen Hatcher. I also received a Master of Arts in Teaching, with specialty in Mathematics, from Tufts University.
Community
I have given many years of leadership service to the University Professionals of Illinois, Local 4100, serving as President of the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Chapter from 2003 to 2009 and currently serving as chair of the Trustees and Audit Committee and delegate to the conventions of the Illinois and American Federations of Teachers. I have also served for many years as Secretary of the Mideastern Illinois Labor Council. I am proud to serve and represent the working people who make our society work!
I am an avid ecological landscape gardener and a member of the Grand Prairie Friends and the Grand Prairie Butterfly Club.
Publications
C. Delman and R. Roberts, Alternating knots satisfy property P, Commentii Mathematici Helvetici 74 (1999), pp. 376-397.
C. Delman and G Galperin, Billiards with pockets: a separation principle and bound on the number of orbit types, Communications in mathematical Physics 230 (2002), pp. 463-483.
C. Delman and G. Galperin, A tale of three circles, Mathematics Magazine 76 (2003), No. 1, pp. 15-32. (Awarded the Carl B. Allendoerffer Award from the Mathematical Association of America.)
Frequently Taught Courses
Calculus, Geometry, Topology, Foundations of Mathematics, Graduate Seminar.
Research & Creative Interests
I am interested in topology, geometry, dynamics, and applications of mathematics to economics and social choice.
My primary area of specialization is low-dimensional topology, with a focus on knots, laminations, and foliations in 3-manifods. I have also worked in classical geometry and billiard dynamics, both in conjunction with my ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ colleague Gregory Galperin. The application of mathematics to economics and social choice is a recent research interest through which I hope to contribute to the solution of some of society's current pressing problems.