Awards & Honors

Research:	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1985-1987 ; University Scholar (1991-1994; UIC)
Service:	Award of Excellence (1997; State of Illinois - citizen contributions to local elementary schools)
Teaching:	Award of Excellence (2007; UIC Campus-Wide Prize for Teaching Contributions)
UIC:	INSPIRE & Luminary Award (June/November 2010)
AMS:	Fellow of the American Mathematics Society (2012)

Recent & Upcoming Papers

59.	Dynamics and the Godbillon-Vey class of $C^1$-foliations (with Remi Langevin)
	preprint 2004, under revision for resubmission 2012
60.	Compact foliations with finite transverse category (with Pawel Walczak)
	preprint 2005, under revision for resubmission 2012
61.	Dynamics of expansive group actions on the circle
	preprint 2005, under revision for resubmission 2012
62.	Exceptional minimal sets and the Godbillon-Vey class
	preprint 2005, under revision for resubmission 2012
68.	Classifying foliations
	Foliations, Topology and Geometry, Contemp. Math, AMS, 2009
69.	Characteristic classes for Riemannan foliations
	DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY. Proceedings VIII International Colloquium, Santiango de Compostela, Spain, 7-11 July 2008, World Scientific, 2009
70:	Lectures on Foliation Dynamics: Barcelona 2010, C.R.M. Barcelona, May 2010
	C.R.M. Publication, July 2013 (to appear)
71.	Embedding solenoids in foliations (with Alex Clark)
	Topology and its Applications Vol. 158, 2011
72.	Homogeneous matchbox manifolds (with Alex Clark)
	Transactions AMS, Vol. 365, 2013.
73.	Voronoi tessellations for matchbox manifolds (with Alex Clark and Olga Lukina)
	Topology Proceedings, Vol. 41, 2013; revised version, August 31, 2012
74.	Dynamics and topology of the Kuperberg minimal set (with Ana Rechtman)
	March, 2013
75.	Shape of matchbox manifolds (with Alex Clark and Olga Lukina)
	March, 2013
76.	Classifying matchbox manifolds (with Alex Clark and Olga Lukina)
	In prepration, 2013
77.	LS category of foliations and Folner properties (with Carlos Menino-Coton)
	In prepration, 2013

Surveys & more

1994:	A survey of rigidity theory for Anosov actions
1994:	Coarse geometry of foliations
2002:	Dynamics and the Godbillon-Vey class: a history and survey
2003:	Foliation Geometry/Topology Problem Set
2008:	Classifying foliations
2008:	Characteristic classes for Riemannan foliations
2011:	Lectures on Foliation Dynamics: Barcelona 2010

Selected Recent Talks

2007:	Dynamics and analysis of foliations.
	Lectures given at the Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, January - February 2007.
2010:	Dynamics of Group Actions and their Minimal Sets.
	AMS Special Session on Group Actions: Probability and Dynamics, Puçon, Chile, December 18, 2010.
2011:	Introduction to Matchbox Manifolds.
	Summer Conference on General Topology and its Applications, The City College of New York, July 29, 2011.
2011:	Renormalization and dimension for Kuperberg minimal sets.
	Summer Conference on General Topology and its Applications, The City College of New York, July 28, 2011.
2011:	An Invitation to Matchboxes.
	British Mathematical Colloquium, University of Leicester, England, April 20, 2011.
2012:	Dynamics and Topology of Matchbox Manifolds &
	Spectral Cycles for Foliations.
	11th Nagoya International Mathematics Conference, Nagoya, Japan March 21-24, 2012.
2012:	Cohomology and smooth embeddings for matchbox manifolds.
	Matchbox Dynamics - Mini-Symposium, ECM6 Krakow, July 2, 2012.
2012:	Dynamical Invariants of Foliations.
	Colloquium, Universite de Strasbourg, October 19, 2012.

updated April 4, 2013