I am Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Penn.

I am also Faculty Master of Riepe College House.

I am also the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, and a Professor of Mathematics.

Courses:

Miscellaneous:

Matt L and Stefan S present their work at the AMS/MAA joint meetings

Some pictures for Prof. Calabi

Middle school math problem of the day (If you are a teacher and would like more information about these, please drop me an email at deturck@math.upenn.edu )

More than a decade ago(!), Physicist Larry Gladney, Chemist Tony Pietrovito and I collaborated on the Interactive Textbook.

Mathematician Herb Wilf and I collaborated on a junior/senior-level textbook on Numerical Analysis using Maple.

Access Science

Volume 1, Issue 2 of the Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications contains articles about materials developed for Math 170 and the Prefreshman Program by Physics Professor Larry Gladney and me.

Research

Recent preprints and publications:

• (with H. Gluck, R. Komendarczyk, P. Melvin, C. Shonkwiler. and D.S. Vela-Vick) "Pontryagin invariants and integral formulas for Milnor's triple linking number" ( ArXiv paper 1101.3374)
• (with H. GLuck and P. Storm) "Lipschitz minimality of Hopf fibrations and Hopf vector fields" ( ArXiv paper 1009.5439)
• (with H. Gluck) "Linking, twisting, writhing and helicity on the 3-sphere and in hyperbolic 3-space" ( ArXiv paper 1009.3561)
• (with H. Gluck, R. Komendarczyk, P. Melvin, C. Shonkwiler and D.S. Vela-Vick) "Triple linking numbers, ambiguous Hopf invariants and integral formulas for three-component links" (ArXiv paper 0901.1612) and in Mat. comtemp. 34 (2008) 251-283.
• (with H. Gluck) "Linking integrals in the n-sphere" (ArXiv paper 0802.0320) and in Mat. comtemp. 34 (2008) 233-250.
• (with H. Gluck) "Electrodynamics and the Gauss linking integral on the 3-sphere and in hyperbolic 3-space" (ArXiv paper 0510388) and in the Journal of Mathematical Physics vol 49, 023504 (2008)
• (with H. Gluck, D. Pomerleano and D.S. Vick) "The Four-vertex Theorem and its converse", Notices AMS 54 (2007) 192-207 (ArXiv paper 0609268)
• (with S. Cappell, H. Gluck and E. Miller) "Cohomology of harmonic forms on Riemannian manifolds with boundary", Forum Math. 18 (2006) 923-931 ( PS version [137K], PDF version [119K], ArXiv paper 0508372)
• (with H. Gluck) "The Gauss linking integral on the 3-sphere and in hyperbolic 3-space" (ArXiv paper 0406276).
• "Deforming metrics in the direction of their Ricci tensors (Improved version)", in Collected Papers on Ricci Flow, HD Cao, B Chow, SC Chu and ST Yau eds, Series in Geometry and Topology 37 (2003) 163-165, International Press. (PS version (140KB), PDF version)
• (with J. Cantarella and H. Gluck) "Hodge decomposition of vector fields on bounded domains in 3-space", American Mathematical Monthly 109 (2002), 409-442. (PDF version (2.6 MB))
• (with J. Cantarella and H. Gluck) "The Biot-Savart operator for application to knot theory, fluid dynamics and plasma physics", J. Mathematical Physics 42 (2001) 876-905. ( PDF version (1.5MB))
• (with J. Cantarella and H. Gluck) "Upper Bounds for the Writhing of Knots and the Helicity of Vector Fields", in Knots, Braids, and Mapping Class Groups - Papers Dedicated to Joan S. Birman, J. Gilman, X-S. Lin and W. Menasco (eds), Studies in Advanced Mathematics AMS/International Press Studies in Advanced Mathematics 24 (2001) 1-21. (PDF version (314KB), PS version (1.7MB))
• (with J. Cantarella, H. Gluck and M. Teytel) "Isoperimetric problems for the helicity of vector fields and the Biot-Savart and curl operators" J. Mathematical Physics 41 (2000) 5615-5641. (PDF version (1.3MB))
• (with J. Cantarella, H. Gluck and M. Teytel) "The spectrum of the curl operator on spherically symmetric domains" Physics of Plasmas 7 (2000) 2766-2775 (PDF version (1.2MB))
• (with H. Goldschmidt) "Metrics with Prescribed Ricci Curvature of Constant Rank I. The Integrable Case", Advances in Mathematics 145, 1-97 (1999) (Postscript version (948k)).
• (with J. Cantarella, H. Gluck and M. Teytel) "Influence of geometry and topology on helicity", Magnetic Helicity in Space and Laboratory Plasmas, M. Brown, R. Canfield and A. Pevtsove (eds), Geophysical Monograph 111, American Geophysical Union (1999) 17-24. (PDF version (165KB), PS version (879KB))
• (with J. Cantarella and H. Gluck) "The spectrum of the curl operator on the flat torus", preprint 35 pp.
• (with H. Goldschmidt) "Aspects of prescribing Ricci curvature", in CR Geometry and Overdetermined Systems, Advanced Studies in Mathematics 25 (1997) 60-84.