Gabriel Alan Amos

Office:
3123 Mathematical Sciences Building

Department email addy:
amos518 AT math DOT ucdavis DOT edu

Department Addy:
Department of Mathematics
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

About Me

Hi there. My name's Gabriel, and I'm a 3rd year graduate student at the University of California, Davis. A grad student in mathematics, obviously, because there's no other way you could have found me otherwise (look at the url for a hint).

My other interests include music snobbery, trying to play guitar, photography, the game of Go, and hiking/camping/backpacking.

Teaching and TAing

Math 16-C, Summer Session I 2007
Math 125-A Fall 2007
Math 21A- Summer Session I, 2008

Education

My CV

B.S. Mathematics, University of Oregon, June 2004
M.A. Mathematics, University of California, Davis (once I fill out paperwork)

Research

My area of research interest is geometry and negatively curved spaces, more specifically, geometric group theory and the theory of negatively curved groups. My advisor is (tentatively) Misha Kapovich, although I'm still technically on my own. To learn more about geometric group theory, see:

A compendium of geometric group theory resources courtesy of Jon McCammond at UC Santa Barbara.

For stuff I'm interested in, some papers I've read (not all specifically what I'm into, but related):

If you really want to learn more about non-positive curvature, you should pick up THE BIBLE

Metric Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature Martin Bridson, Andre Haefliger

People I know who are interested in the same stuff:

Talks and Presentations

Eventually I will scan and post slides/notes for talks I have given.