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Steve Hurder

Professor, 1985-present
Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago

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Email: hurder@uic.edu

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Awards

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)


Recent & Upcoming Papers

68. Classifying foliations PDF
  Foliations, Topology and Geometry, Contemp. Math, AMS, 2009  
69. Characteristic classes for Riemannan foliations PDF
  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 PDF
  C.R.M. Publication, June 2010; updated and expanded version April 25, 2011  
  Overview Talk, British Math. Colloquium, April 21, 2011 PDF
71. Embedding solenoids in foliations (with Alex Clark) PDF
  Topology and its Applications Vol. 158, 2011  
72. Homogeneous matchbox manifolds (with Alex Clark) PDF
  Transactions AMS, to appear; revised version, July 11, 2011.  
73. Voronoi tessellations for matchbox manifolds (with Alex Clark and Olga Lukina) PDF
  preprint, July 10, 2011; revised version, December 19, 2011
74. Dynamics and topology of the Kuperberg minimal set (with Ana Rechtman)  
  In prepration, 2011  
75. Shape of matchbox manifolds (with Alex Clark and Olga Lukina)
  In prepration  
76. Classifying matchbox manifolds (with Alex Clark and Olga Lukina)
  In prepration  


Surveys and more

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


Selected Recent Talks

2007: Dynamics and analysis of foliations. PDF
  Lectures given at the Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, January - February 2007.  
2010: Dynamics of Group Actions and their Minimal Sets. PDF
  AMS Special Session on Group Actions: Probability and Dynamics, Puçon, Chile, December 18, 2010.  
2011: Introduction to Matchbox Manifolds. PDF
  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. PDF
  Summer Conference on General Topology and its Applications, The City College of New York, July 28, 2011.  
2011: An Invitation to Matchboxes. PDF
  British Mathematical Colloquium, University of Leicester, England, April 20, 2011.  
2012: Dynamical Invariants of Foliations. PDF
  Dynamical Systems and Geometry Seminar, Universite Nice-Sophia Antipolis, April 10, 2012.  
2012: Dynamics and Topology of Matchbox Manifolds & PDF
Spectral Cycles for Foliations. PDF
  11th Nagoya International Mathematics Conference, Nagoya, Japan March 21-24, 2012.  


updated Apil 10, 2012