Nageswari Shanmugalingam
Associate Professor,
Mathematical Sciences
Ph.D,
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
1999
B.Sc.,
University of Rochester, NY,
1994
Biography:
I received my Bachelors degree from the University of Rochester in 1994
and my doctoral degree from the University of Michigan in 1999, under
the supervision of Professor Juha Heinonen.
Research Areas:
My research area is geometric function theory. I am interested in the
connection between inequalities in analysis and their geometric implications,
and also in quasiconformal maps and the geometric properties of metric measure
spaces conserved by them. Just as a geometer cannot distinguish between the
flat torus and a torus with non-zero curvature without the aid of a metric on
the torus, neither can a metric space analyst distinguish different geometries
on the same metric measure space without corresponding differential operators.
Such different operators can be constructed for certain metric measure spaces;
this is a result due to Cheeger. I am also interested in studying the different
geometries on a metric measure space given by different Cheeger differential
structures.