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Citizenship
  
United States

Fields
  
Mathematics

Alma mater
  

Name
  
Christina Sormani

Known for
  
Doctoral advisor
  
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Thesis
  
Noncompact Manifolds with Lower Ricci Curvature Bounds and Minimal Volume Growth (1996)

Doctoral students
  
Sajjad LakzianMichael MunnPedro Solorzano ManceraRaquel Perales Aguilar

Notable awards
  

Christina Sormani


Christina Sormani is a professor of mathematics at City University of New York affiliated with Lehman College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is known for her research in Riemannian geometry, metric geometry, and Ricci curvature, as well as her work on the notion of intrinsic flat distance.

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Career

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Sormani received her Ph.D. from New York University in 1996 under Jeff Cheeger. She then took postdoctoral positions at Harvard University (under Shing-Tung Yau) and Johns Hopkins University (under William Minicozzi II). Sormani now works at Lehman College in the City University of New York and at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Awards and honors

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In 2009, Sormani was an invited speaker at the Geometry Festival.

In 2015, Sormani became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected publications

  • Sormani, Christina. Nonnegative Ricci curvature, small linear diameter growth and finite generation of fundamental groups. J. Differential Geom. 54 (2000), no. 3, 547–559. MR 1823314.
  • Sormani, Christina; Wei, Guofang. Hausdorff convergence and universal covers. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 353 (2001), no. 9, 3585–3602. MR 1837249
  • Sormani, Christina; Wei, Guofang. Universal covers for Hausdorff limits of noncompact spaces. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), no. 3, 1233–1270. MR 2021619
  • Sormani, Christina, and Stefan Wenger. "The intrinsic flat distance between Riemannian manifolds and other integral current spaces." Journal of Differential Geometry 87 (2011), no. 1, 117–199. MR 2786592
  • References

    Christina Sormani Wikipedia


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