Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
Email: clay@shonkwiler.org
Office: Weber 216
Phone: (970) 491.1822
Curriculum Vitæ
Courses can be found on the teaching page.
My primary research interest is in using geometry to solve topological and physical problems. I am currently working on a long-term project which uses Riemannian and symplectic geometry to develop a new framework for understanding the probability theory of topologically constrained random walks and polymer networks. A newer but very promising project uses symplectic geometry to answer long-standing questions in frame theory and statistical signal processing. Please see the research page for more.
Group
- Harrison Chapman (postdoc)
- Brenden Balch (graduate student)
- Thomas D. Eddy (graduate student)
- Colin Roberts (graduate student)
- Nikolai Sannikov (undergraduate student)
News
- April, 2019 A to Z and Truncation accepted for the art exhibition at Bridges 2019.
- April, 2019 Tom Eddy successfully defended his masters’ thesis Improved Stick Number Upper Bounds. Congrats, Tom!
- March, 2019 A to Z, Inside, and Truncation exhibited in the biannual Art & Science Exhibition in the Curfman Gallery.
- February, 2019 Our paper “Random triangles and polygons in the plane” was published in the American Mathematical Monthly. Former CSU undergraduate (and current Courant graduate student) Gavin Stewart is a coauthor.
- February, 2019 Our paper “Spherical geometry and the least symmetric triangle” was published in Geometriae Dedicata. Current and former CSU undergraduates Laney Bowden, Andrea Haynes, and Aaron Shukert are coauthors.