Andrew A. Cooper

Professional

I'm a graduate student in geometry and topology at Michigan State University.

My research interests lie in differential geometry and geometric analysis.

More specifically, I'm interested in geometric flows, in particular the mean curvature flow. My comprehensive exam was on surgery in mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces. Ideally I'd like to understand how to extend the current surgery results to the Lagrangian setting. To this end, I study the singularity structure of Lagrangian mean curvature flows.

My paper A Characterization of the Singular Time of the Mean Curvature Flow has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.

Teaching

In spring 2011, I am teaching MTH 132: Calculus I. The official course description is

Limits, continuous functions, derivatives and their applications. Integrals and the fundamental theorem of calculus.

I teach section 12 (MWF 12.40-1.30 in C306 Wells). Course materials are here.

My office hours this semester are 10am-11am on Monday and Tuesday. If you can't make that, please send me an email and we can set up an appointment.

Contact

My address is

Andrew Cooper
Department of Mathematics
A-531 Wells Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824

You can email me at coope106 at math dot msu dot edu or andrew dot a dot cooper at gmail dot com.