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Annual activity report: professorial-stream faculty
Faculty of Arts & Science
Period: 1 May 2010 to 30 April 2011
Dror Bar-Natan, Department of Mathematics
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This is my "merit report", presented annually to my department
(along with my CV),
mostly to determine if I will be getting a pay raise, and how much.
Why make it public? So painful it is to write, I must try
to sweeten the pill by adding to it some residual benefit. Hence it
is also a "news report" presented annually in the open to the
small number of people who might be interested in what I'm up to.
The sectioning follows the standard Faculty of Arts & Science form,
but with many parts suppressed.
1. Courses Taught
(i) Undergraduate
3. Course and Curriculum Development
(i) Development of a new course
(ii) New preparation of an existing course
(iii) New pedagogical methods introduced
4. Course and Curriculum Delivery/Management
(i) Ongoing innovative methods in specific courses
(ii) Course and program management
(i) Undergraduate
Qin Deng, undergraduate working on combinatorial number theory and
dynamical systems since February 2011, at 3 supervision hours per
month.
(ii) New and Continuing Masters
(a) Primary supervisions
Iva Halacheva, working on Lie bialgebras, at 1 supervision hour
per month.
(b) Supervisory committee memberships
(iii) New and Continuing PhD
(a) Primary supervisions.
- Peter Lee, working on
the quadraticity of the virtual braid group since May 2006 at
8 supervision hours per month.
- Zsuzsanna Dancso,
working on "Kontsevich formalism for knotted trivalent graphs"
since September 2006 at 6 supervision hours per month.
- Karene Chu, working on "Virtual Braids" and on "Flat Knots"
since May 2007 at 6 supervision hours per month.
- Oleg Chterental, working since September 2010 on simplicity
quations for planar curves at 6 supervision hours per month.
(b) Supervisory committee memberships
All of the above plus Trefor Bazett, Bruce Fontaine, Jesse
McKeown, and Lucy Zhang.
(iv) Completed Graduate Theses/Degrees
- Jana Archibald,
PhD thesis titled "The Multivariable Alexander Polynomial on
Tangles", graduated May 2010 at 4 supervision hours per month.
- Louis Leung,
PhD thesis titled "Classical Lie Algebra Weight Systems of Arrow
Diagrams", graduated July 2010 at 8 supervision hours per month.
- Oleg Chterental, MSc project on the topology of ribbon 2-knots,
graduated September 2010 at 8 supervision hours per month.
(v) Research Associates/Postdoctoral Fellows/Professional
Assistants
(vi) Other
C. Scholarly Work in Progress
1. Accepted (not yet published)
2. Published - refereed
3. Published - non-refereed
- I
understand Drinfel'd and Alekseev-Torossian, I don't understand
Etingof-Kazhdan yet, and I'm clueless about Kontsevich,
a series of 3 lectures in Montpellier, June 2006.
- From the ax+b
Lie Algebra to the Alexander Polynomial and Beyond, conference
talk in Chicago, September 2010.
- 18
Conjectures, conference talk in Chicago, September 2010.
- The Hardest Math
I've Ever Really Used, Royal Canadian Institute, February 2011.
- Cosmic
Coincidences and Several Other Stories, University of Tennessee
Colloquium, March 2011.
G. Patents, Disclosures, Other Professional Designs
H. Creative Professional Activities
I. Current Grants and Contracts
- Knot Theory and
Algebra, Discovery NSERC grant, starting April 2008 and
ending March 2013 at total of $140,000 with no co-investigators.
- Knot Theory
and Algebra, Discovery Accelerator Supplement (NSERC)
starting April 2009 and ending March 2012 at total of $120,000 with
no co-investigators.
J. Honours
K. University Service
(i) Department
I am my department's graduate coordinator this year.
(ii) College
(iii) Faculty
I was a member of the Faculty of Arts and Science Connaught Committee.
(iv) University
(v) Other
L. External Professional Service
M. Outreach Service
N. Other
Z.
My merit to
do list.