Neil Donaldson

Visiting Assistant Professor

Office 296 MSTB
Office hours Mon & Wed 8.15-9am & 10-11am

Phone +1 949 824 5508
Fax +1 949 824 7993

Email ndonalds@math.uci.edu

Mail	Department of Mathematics
	Multipurpose Science and Technology Building
	University of California, Irvine
	Irvine
	CA 92697-3875

Research

I received my Ph.D from Bath University in 2006 and am now postdoccing at UCI with Prof. Chuu-Lian Terng, working on integrable systems. My thesis discussed several of the incarnations of symmetric R-spaces in differential geometry - including special submanifolds (Line/sphere-congruences, Isothermic submanifolds) and the application of parabolic subalgebras to the theory of dressing-transforms.

Symmetric R-spaces: submanifold geometry and transformation theory. PhD Thesis (supervised by Prof. Fran Burstall) (pdf)
Isothermic Submanifolds of Symmetric R-spaces (with Fran Burstall) - (in preparation)
Conformally flat submanifolds in spheres and integrable systems (with Chuu-Lian Terng) - (preprint)
Isothermic hypersurfaces (with Chuu-Lian Terng) - (in preparation)
Generators for rational loop groups and geometric applications (with Daniel Fox and Oliver Goertsches) - (preprint)

Teaching

Spring 2008 I am teaching Math 13 An Introduction to Abstract Mathematics (MWF 9am MSTB 122). I have previously taught Math 2J (Linear Algebra and Infinite Series), Math 3A (Linear Algebra), Math 120A (Group Theory) and Math 180 (Number Theory).

Maths stuff

One hell of a LaTeX resource including all the symbols you've ever dreamt about
TeXlipse: the Daddy of all TeX frontends. Written in Java for the Eclipse SDK
Simple Lie Groups and their real forms
LiE: for online Lie algebra computations
Mathscinet
Mathworld
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Other silliness

Translations from the English, an' the Scots - might be useful for deciphering some of my more obscure utterances...
A thoroughly unbiased Story of Scotland
St Andrews in the Kingdom of Fife (it's where ah'm fae - Americans please note that St.A is NOT in England): the Toon, the University, the Golf, me old School and the Cellar Bar (Irvine publicans are advised to take a fact-finding trip to discover how it's really done - anyone fancy opening a branch of CAMRA over here?)
The church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - Feel the touch of his noodly appendage...
Conservapedia - perhaps the funniest website on the internet
Edinburgh University Wind Band & Old Blowers - the very model of a modern Uni Band
Uisge Beatha: Mmmmmm
US weights and measures: i.e. when is a Pint not a Pint? Humph - it's enough to put you off your Dues
Haggis US-style: sadly eating lungs is illegal in the States, so we're forced to improvise. The Bard would not be impressed....

Neil Donaldson

Research

Teaching

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Maths stuff

Other silliness