I am a research assistant professesor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

My research interests include low-dimensional geometry and topology, hyperbolic 3-manifolds, and complex projective structures.

Publications

• "Some New Behaviour in the Deformation Theory of Kleinian Groups", Comm. Anal. Geom. 9 (2001) no.4 757-775.
• "Self-bumping of deformation spaces of hyperbolic 3-manfolds", with Ken Bromberg, J. Diff. Geom. 57 (2001), 47-65.
• "Multiple bumping of components of deformation spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds", also available in pdf format. American. J. Math. 125 (2003), 691-736
• "Bumping of exotic projective structures", with Ken Bromberg. In preparation.
• "Non-wrapping of hyperbolic interval bundles", with Richard Evans. Preliminary version.
• "On the topology of the space of once-punctured torus groups", with Juan Souto. Preliminary version.
• "Bumping and self-bumping of deformation spaces", In the tradition of Ahlfors and Bers II, Proceedings of the Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium, Storrs CT 2001, W. Abikoff and A. Haas, Editors.

I am currently collaborating with

Richard Evans

Ken Bromberg

Martin Bridgeman

Ed Taylor

Juan Souto

Gero Kleineidam