Andrew A. Cooper

Professional

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

My research interests lie in geometry and geometric analysis.

More specifically, I'm interested in geometric flows, in particular the mean curvature flow, which is roughly the sort of motion that soap films exhibit (though I know essentially nothing about the applications). 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 a higher-codimension setting.

I worked in the Michigan State University Computational Linguistics Lab for a couple of years. The product of that was

Cooper, Andrew A. and Hale, John T. (2005) "Promotion of Disfluency in Syntactic Parallelism", Proceedings of the Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech Workshop '05, pp. 59-63.

Teaching

In summer 2009, I am teaching MTH 234: Multivariable Calculus. The official course description is

Vectors in space. Functions of several variables and partial differentiation. Multiple integrals. Line and surface integrals. Green's and Stokes's theorems.

I teach section 201 (MTWF 10.20-12.10 in 2205 Engineering). Course materials are here.

My office hours this semester are 1pm-2pm on Monday and Thursday. If you can't make that, please send me an email and we can set up an appointment.

Art

Some photographs I have taken. I usually post a new photo each day over at my Momentile.

My book Courting the Muse and Other Poems was published by Gutenberg's Folly, an imprint of Wings Press in San Antonio, Texas, in October 2002.

I make masks.

I play saxophone for Kinase Moves the Audio, and on occasion for Albert Alexander.

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 msu dot edu or andrew dot a dot cooper at gmail dot com.