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*  Contact Information

*  Current Courses

*  Biographical Information

*  Research

*  Former Graduate Students

*  Other Links

 

Contact Information

 

McKenzie Y.-K. Wang

Professor of Mathematics

 

E-mail address

wang@mcmaster.ca

Mailing address

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

McMaster University

1280 Main St. W.

Hamilton, Ontario

CANADA L8S 4K1

Office phone and Fax

Office: (905) 525-9140 extension 23405

Fax: (905) 522-0935

 

Current Courses

 

*  Math 2S3  Linear Algebra III (Winter 2012)

*  Math 4X3  Complex Analysis II (Winter 2012)

*  Math 764  Topics in Differential Geometry and Global Analysis (Fall 2011)

 

Biographical Information

 

A. B. (Princeton, 1976),  Ph. D. (Stanford, 1980)

 

Research

 

*  Areas of Interest: Differential Geometry/Geometric Analysis, Geometrical Methods in Mathematical Physics, Lie group actions on manifolds

 

* Preprints and Unpublished documents:

·         Notes for Classification of Superpotentials  (supplement to the paper A. Dancer & M. Wang: “Classification of Superpotentials”, Commun. Math. Phys., 284 (2008), 583-647)

 

·         A. Dancer, S. Hall & M. Wang: Cohomogeneity One Shrinking Ricci Solitons: An Analytic and Numerical Study, arXiv:math.DG/1105.6195.

·         M. Wang: Einstein Metrics from Symmetry and Bundle Constructions: A Sequel

*  Recent Publications:

 

·         A. Dancer & M. Wang: Classification of Superpotentials,  Commun. Math. Phys., 284 (2008), 583-647.

·         A. Dancer & M. Wang: Some New Examples of Non-Kӓhler Ricci Solitons, Math. Res. Lett., 16 (2009), 349-363.

·         A. Dancer & M. Wang: Non-Kähler Expanding Ricci Solitons, Intl. Math. Res. Notices, 2009 (2009), 1107-1133.

·         A. Dancer & M. Wang: On Ricci Solitons of Cohomogeneity One, Ann. Glob. Anal. Geom., 39, (2011), 259-292.

·         A. Dancer & M. Wang: Classifying Superpotentials:Three Summands Case, J. Geom. Phys., 61, (2011), 675-692.

·         A. Dancer & M. Wang: Cohomogeneity One Ricci Solitons,  XIX International Fall Workshop on Geometry and Physics,

      AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1360, Porto (Portugal) 6-9 Sept. 2010, (2011), 93-98.

  

 

Former/current Graduate Students

 

*  Jun Wang (Ph. D., McMaster University, 1996) “Einstein Metrics on Bundles”

*  David Williams (M. Sc., McMaster University, 2000) “Construction of Closed Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces” (thesis)

*  Ami Mamalo (M. Sc., McMaster University, 2005) “Exploring Spacetimes and Singularities” (project)

*  Dezhong Chen (Ph. D., McMaster University, 2010) “Bundle Constructions of Einstein Manifolds”

*  Jason Haradyn (M. Sc., McMaster University, 2010) “Invariant Einstein Metrics and Ricci Curvature on the Exceptional Aloff-Wallach Spaces” (project)

*  Zouhang Guo (M. Sc., current)

 

Undergraduate Research Students

 

·         Clara Blakelock (2005)  “Painleve Analysis”

·         Laura Walton (2010)  “Iterating the Ricci Tensor of Homogeneous Metrics”

 

 

Other Links

*  http://www.math.mcmaster.ca (Department of Mathematics and Statistics Home Page)

*  http://www.mcmaster.ca (McMaster University Home Page)

*  http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~gap  (Geometry and Physics Conference Webpage)

 

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Last revised: September 12, 2011