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Peter Storm

Research Interests

I am interested in geometry and topology. Specifically, my research studied hyperbolic geometry and related topics. My thesis advisor was Richard Canary .

Personal History:

  • University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor, 2007-2009
  • Stanford University, Szegő Assistant Professor, 2004-2007
  • University of Chicago, L.E. Dickson Instructor, 2003-2004
  • University of Michigan, Ph.D. in mathematics, 1998-2003
  • University of Chicago, B.A. in mathematics, 1994-1998
    Papers and preprints: (Please follow the "journal version" link for published papers. Most of these papers are also available on ArXiv.)

    (17) "Hyperbolic 3-manifolds", with Robert Meyerhoff. This is an expository article accepted for publication in the McGraw Hill 2010 Yearbook of Science & Technology.

    (16) "Moduli spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds", with Richard Canary. Submitted in 2009.

    (15) "The curious moduli space of unmarked Kleinian surface groups", with Richard Canary. Submitted in 2009.

    (14) "Local rigidity of hyperbolic manifolds with geodesic boundary", with Steven Kerckhoff. Submitted in 2009.

    (13) "Infinitesimal rigidity of a compact hyperbolic 4-orbifold with totally geodesic boundary", journal version, with Tarik Aougab, Algebraic & Geometric Topology 9 (2009) 537-548. We prepared notebooks to explain the computations of this paper in detail. This article was the result of an NSF-supported undergraduate research project with Tarik in the summer of 2008.

    (12) "From the 24-cell to the cuboctahedron", with Steven Kerckhoff. Submitted in 2008. This article uses lots of color.

    (11) "Finiteness of arithmetic hyperbolic reflection groups", journal version, with Ian Agol, Mikhail Belolipetsky, and Kevin Whyte, Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics 2 Issue 4 (2008) 481-498

    (10) "Dense embeddings of surface groups", journal version, with Emmanuel Breuillard, Tsachik Gelander, and Juan Souto, Geometry & Topology 10 (2006) 1373-1389

    (9) "Lower bounds on volumes of hyperbolic Haken 3-manifolds", journal version, with Ian Agol and Bill Thurston, and an appendix by Nathan Dunfield, Journal of the American Mathematical Society 20 (2007) 1053-1077

    (8) "The Novikov conjecture for mapping class groups as a corollary of Hamenstadt's theorem"

    (7) "Finitely generated subgroups of lattices in PSL(2,C)", with Yair Glasner and Juan Souto. Submitted in 2009.

    (6) "Dynamics of the mapping class group action on the variety of Sl(2,C)-characters", journal version, with Juan Souto, Geometry & Topology 10 (2006) 715-736

    (5) "Rigidity of minimal volume Alexandrov spaces", journal version, Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ Mathematica 31 (2006) 381-389

    (4) "Hyperbolic convex cores and simplicial volume", journal version, Duke Mathematical Journal 140 No.2 (2007) 281-319

    (3) "The minimal entropy conjecture for nonuniform rank one lattices", journal version, Geometric and Functional Analysis 16 No.4 (2006) 959-980

    (2) "The barycenter method on singular spaces", journal version, Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 82 Issue 1 (2007) 133-173

    (1) "Minimal volume Alexandrov spaces", journal version, Journal of Differential Geometry 61 (2002) 195-226

    During the spring of 2009 I taught a course on mapping class groups at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
    Scanned notes are available. View the homepage.
    View my gallery of computer images. (It may load slowly.)
    I wrote pinlabeler, a graphical extension to Colin Rourke's excellent figure labelling tex package pinlabel. With your latex file open in a text editor, pinlabeler opens a gv window showing your figure. Rather than manually copying coordinates from gv to your latex file, left-clicking in pinlabeler's gv window sends the coordinates to the latex file automatically. The coordinates are formatted for pinlabel.

    More information about pinlabeler.

    Time to kill? Try the take-home final exam I prepared for undergraduate honors algebra at the University of Chicago in 2004, or my in-class final exam for undergraduate honors analysis at Stanford in 2007. (Most of the questions are taken from various long-forgotten sources.)
    Check out the open problem list at the Center for the Topology and Quantization of Moduli Spaces in Århus. It is maintained by Jørgen E. Andersen.