RANDRIANARIVONY Nirina Lovasoa

Department of Mathematics
University of Missouri-Columbia
Mathematical Sciences Building
Columbia, MO 65211-4100

Email: lova AT math DOT missouri DOT edu

Phone: (573) 882-4970

Office: Mathematical Sciences Building, Room 323

Education

Maitrise, Universite d'Antananarivo, Madagascar, 1996
ICTP Diploma, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy, 1998
Ph.D. under William B. Johnson, Texas A&M University, 2005.

Employment

Graduate Assistant, Texas A&M University, 1998-2005.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005-present.


Curriculum Vita: .dvi, .pdf

Teaching

Classes taught: Elements of Calculus (MATH 1320); Calculus for Social and Natural Sciences II (MATH 2100); Finite Mathematics (MATH 1300).


Current class: Elements of Calculus (MATH 1320), enhanced with Blackboard.

Teaching Statement: .dvi, .pdf

Research Interests

Primary: Banach Space Theory, especially the Nonlinear Geometry of Banach Spaces.
Secondary: Metric Space Geometry, Geometric Group Theory.

Research Statement: .dvi, .pdf

Publications:

1. (With William B. Johnson), l_p (p>2) does not coarsely embed into a Hilbert space, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), no. 4, 1045-1050. Preprint, Link.

2. Characterization of quasi-Banach spaces which coarsely embed into a Hilbert space, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), no. 5, 1315-1317. Preprint, Link.

3. (With Nigel Kalton), The coarse Lipschitz geometry of l_p \oplus l_q, preprint, to appear in Math. Ann.

Award

Type: NSF Grant DMS-0701097
Title: Nonlinear Geometry of Banach Spaces and Metric Spaces.
Amount: 66,884 USD
Duration: 2007-2010
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