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John Mackay

J.L.Doob Research Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
1409 West Green Street,
Urbana, IL 61801.

Office:	109 Altgeld Hall
Telephone:	(217)244-4697
Email:	jmmackay at illinois dot edu

Only a few minutes walk from Edinburgh into the Pentland hills...

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Research

I am interested in many things geometric; in particular, analysis on metric spaces, geometric group theory, hyperbolic groups ...

Papers and preprints (to be updated...)

Existence of quasi-arcs, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136 (2008), no. 11, 3975--3981.arxiv:0708.0824
Spaces with conformal dimension greater than one (preprint) arxiv:0711.0417

Teaching

Fall 2009
- Math 115 Section F1: Preparation for Calculus
- Math 595 Topics minicourse: Gromov hyperbolic groups and their boundaries.
Spring 2009
- Math 415 Section B1: Applied Linear Algebra
- Math 432 Section F1: Set Theory and Topology
Fall 2008
- Math 213: Introduction to Discrete Mathematics

Links

Before coming here, I was a graduate student at the University of Michigan (2003-2008), where I worked with Bruce Kleiner. I also spent most of 2006-8 visiting the mathematics department at Yale.