Robert W. Bell

Teaching

I am teaching two courses during the Spring semester of 2009:

LB 492, section 007: The mathematics of politics. This is an undergraduate capstone course for students in Lyman Briggs College. The main topic of the course is the analysis of election outcomes when there are three or more candidates.

MTH 996, section 003: Topics in topology. This is a course for graduate students in the mathematics department. I will introduce and survey several topics in geometric group theory and then embark on the main journey: a study of boundaries of nonpositively curved groups.

Mathematics

My research area is geometric group theory. My primary interests are CAT(0) spaces, Coxeter groups, Artin groups, and mapping class groups.

CV (current as of April 2009)

Publications

• Robert W. Bell, Three dimensional FC Artin groups are CAT(0), Geometriae Dedicata, 113 (2005), 21-53.
  
  
• Robert W. Bell & Dan Margalit, Braid groups and the co-Hopfian property, Journal of Algebra, 303 (2006), 275-294.
  
  
• Robert W. Bell & Dan Margalit, Injections of Artin groups, Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, 82 (2007) 725-751.

Michigan Geometry & Topology

• Geometry & Topology at MSU.
  
  
• UM Topology Seminar.

Geometric Group Theory

• Jon McCammond's geometric group theory page .
  
  
• The New York Group Theory Cooperative.
  
  
• The GAP homepage.
  
  
• The Max Dehn Seminar at the University of Utah.
  
  
• The Wasatch Topology Conference .

If you need to contact me, my e-mail address is rbell (at) math (dot) msu (dot) edu.