Josh Barnard		I'm the one on the right...
Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of South Alabama Mobile, AL 36688	jbarnard...jaguar1 usouthal edu ILB 306 (251) 460-6264, ext. 6755

Course Information (Summer 2009) Math 126-101/102   Calculus II Past Courses Fall 2009 (tentative) Math 227-101 Calculus III (MW 10:10-11:00; TR 9:30-10:20) Math 334-501 Advanced Calculus (MW 4:30-5:45) Math 490-101 Geometric Group Theory TBD

Professional Information CV (web version)

Publications and Preprints Geometrically infinite surface actions on delta-hyperbolic 3-manifolds are tame, (undergoing revision) Strongly bounding surface actions on hyperbolic spaces, (undergoing revision) Bounding surface actions on hyperbolic spaces, preprint (6/09) Super-exponential 2-dimensional Dehn functions, submitted (with Noel Brady and Pallavi Dani) Super-exponential distortion of subgroups of CAT(-1) groups, Algebraic & Geometric Topology, 7 (2007), 301-308. (with Noel Brady and Pallavi Dani) Distortion of surface groups in CAT(0) free-by-cyclic groups, Geometriae Dedicata, 120 (2006), no. 1, 119-139. (with Noel Brady) Ends of word-hyperbolic three-manifolds, PhD thesis (2004) A loop theorem/Dehn's lemma for (some) orbifolds, preprint (2001)

Local Mathematical Activities Colloquium Series Topology Seminar Algebra Seminar Mobile Math Society Geometric Groups on the Gulf

Miscellaneous Math Links: Geometric group theory Low-dimensional topology Mathematics genealogy project MacTutor history of mathematics archive Powers of 10 Other Links: Events Calendar (and on campus) Hunger site Human rights watch Mobile weather Space weather Some places I've been: St. John's College George Washington University University of Alabama University of California, Santa Barbara University of Oklahoma

This is why philosophers should never do mathematics. (E contrario...)