Megan M. Kerr

Associate Professor of Mathematics

(last modified May 28, 2008)

		Email:	mkerr [at] wellesley [dot] edu
		US Mail:	Department of Mathematics Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley, MA 02481
		Office:	Science Center 372
		Phone:	(781) 283-3144
		Fax:	(781) 283-3642
		Office Hours:	Click here for current hours.

Education:

Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania, 1995.
Advisor: Wolfgang Ziller.
Thesis: Homogeneous Einstein Metrics. (dvi or ps)
B.A.: Wellesley College, 1989.
Advisors: Martin Magid, Fred Shultz.

Research Interests:

Differential Geometry: My area of research is Riemannian geometry, specifically the global geometry of Lie groups. I am interested in invariant structures, such as Einstein metrics, on homogeneous and low-cohomogeneity manifolds.

Teaching:

Spring 2008: Math 115: Calculus I; Math 349: Matrix Groups: An Intro to Lie Groups

Fall 2007: Math 115: Calculus I

Spring 2007: Math 212: Differential Geometry; Math 225: Combinatorics and Graph Theory

Publications and Preprints:

``Some New Homogeneous Einstein Metrics on Symmetric Spaces,'' Transactions of the A.M.S. 348 (1996), no. 1, pp. 153-171. (pdf or ps)

``Homogeneous Einstein-Weyl Structures on Symmetric Spaces,'' Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry 15 (1997), no. 5, pp. 437-445. (pdf or ps)

``New Examples of Homogeneous Einstein Metrics,'' Michigan Mathematical Journal 45 (1998), pp. 115-134. (pdf or ps)

``New Homogeneous Einstein Metrics of Negative Ricci Curvature,'' with Carolyn S. Gordon, Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry 19 (2001), no. 1, pp. 75-101. (pdf or ps)

``A Deformation of Quaternionic Hyperbolic Space,'' Proceedings of the A.M.S. 134 (2006), no. 2, pp. 559-569. (pdf or ps)

``Low Dimensional Homogeneous Einstein Manifolds,'' with Christoph Boehm, Transactions of the A.M.S. 358 (2006), no. 4, pp. 1455-1468. (pdf or ps)

``The Geometry of Compact Homogeneous Spaces with Two Isotropy Summands,'' with Will Dickinson, Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry to appear. (pdf)

``The Geometry of filiform nilpotent Lie groups,'' with Tracy Payne, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics to appear. (pdf)

Useful links:

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Association for Women in Mathematics.
American Association of University Women.