Robert W. Bell

Assistant Professor, Lyman Briggs College and Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University

Campus mailing addresses:

W-32 Holmes Hall	A-305 Wells Hall
Lyman Briggs College	Department of Mathematics
Michigan State University	Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48825-1107	East Lansing, MI 48824

E-mail address: rbell (at) math (dot) msu (dot) edu

Teaching

I teach in both the Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Mathematics at Michigan State University. Below are links to courses I am teaching in the Spring 2012 semester.

LB 220: Calculus III, section 001

MTH 254H: Honors Multivariable Calculus

Current and previous courses

Research

My research area is a branch of mathematics called geometric group theory. The area lies somewhere in the intersection of the more broad fields of geometry, group theory, and topology. My primary interests are CAT(0) spaces, Coxeter groups, Artin groups, and mapping class groups.

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae (current as of July 2011)

Publications

Combinatorial methods for decting surface subgroups in right- angled Artin groups, ISRN Algebra, to appear.
Injections of Artin groups, joint with Dan Margalit, Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, 82 (2007), no. 4, 725-751
Braid groups and the co-Hopfian property, Journal of Algebra, 303 (2006), no. 1, 275-294
Three-dimensional FC Artin groups are CAT(0), Geometriae Dedicata, 113 (2005), 21-53

Mathematics links

Geometric Group Theory

Geometry & Topology at Michigan State University

University of Michigan Topology Seminar

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

I am co-PI on multiple REU grants written by faculty in the Lyman Briggs College and the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics. We offered our first REU during Summer 2010 and our most current offering was this Summer of 2011. Below is a link to the REU web page.

Summer REU in Mathematics

Last updated on 01/05/2012