Christina Sormani

Christina Sormani is a professor of mathematics at City University of New York affiliated with Lehman College and the CUNY Graduate Center.^[1] She is known for her research in Riemannian geometry, metric geometry, and Ricci curvature, as well as her work on the notion of intrinsic flat distance.^[2]

Career

Sormani received her Ph.D. from New York University in 1996 under Jeff Cheeger.^[3] She then took postdoctoral positions at Harvard University (under Shing-Tung Yau) and Johns Hopkins University (under William Minicozzi II).^[4] Sormani now works at Lehman College in the City University of New York and at the CUNY Graduate Center.^[1]

Awards and honors

In 2009, Sormani was an invited speaker at the Geometry Festival.^[5]

In 2015, Sormani became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[6]

Selected publications

• Sormani, Christina. Nonnegative Ricci curvature, small linear diameter growth and finite generation of fundamental groups. J. Differential Geom. 54 (2000), no. 3, 547–559. MR 1823314.
• Sormani, Christina; Wei, Guofang. Hausdorff convergence and universal covers. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 353 (2001), no. 9, 3585–3602. MR 1837249
• Sormani, Christina; Wei, Guofang. Universal covers for Hausdorff limits of noncompact spaces. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), no. 3, 1233–1270. MR 2021619
• Sormani, Christina, and Stefan Wenger. "The intrinsic flat distance between Riemannian manifolds and other integral current spaces." Journal of Differential Geometry 87 (2011), no. 1, 117–199. MR 2786592

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