Stanley S. Chang
106 Central Street ~ Department of Mathematics
~ Wellesley College ~ Wellesley, MA 02481~
(781) 283-3155
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 2001-present.
Associate Professor of Mathematics, 2007-present.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 2001-2007.
National Science Foundation Three-Year Research Grant, 2005-2007.
National Science Foundation Research Opportunity Award, 2004-2005.
The Anna and Samuel Pinanski Teaching Prize, 2003.
The Apgar Award for Teaching Excellence, 2003.
Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1999-2001.
G.C. Evans Postdoctoral Fellow.
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Grant, 2001.
The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1993-1999.
Doctor of Philosophy, Mathematics, June 1999.
- Dissertation: Coarse obstruction to positive scalar curvature metrics
in noncompact quotients of symmetric spaces. Advisor: Shmuel Weinberger.
- Lecturer of the College.
- Lawrence and Josephine Graves Teaching Award, 1997.
- William Booth Graduate Teaching Award, 1996.
Cambridge University, Trinity College,
Cambridge, England, 1991-1993.
Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, June 1993.
- British Marshall Scholar, scholarship awarded 1991 by the Marshall Aid
Commemoration Commission.
- Class I Honors in Mathematics II, June 1993; election to Senior
Scholarship of Trinity College, Fall 1992.
- Recipient of the Trinity College Yeats Mathematical Essay Prize, November
1992, for work submitted on topics in analytic number theory.
University of California, Berkeley,
California, 1987-1991.
Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, May 1991, with Highest University
Honors and Highest Departmental Honors.
- Phi Beta Kappa, awarded as junior, Spring 1990.
- Rhodes Scholarship California State Finalist, 1991.
- Finalist and runner-up for University Medal, top academic
award given to university undergraduates, awarded May 1991.
- Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize in
Mathematics, May 1991.
- University of California Regents' Scholar, 1987-1991.
- University of California Alumni Scholar, 1987-1991.
- University Dean's List, top 4% of university, 1987-1991.
PUBLICATIONS
- Positive scalar curvature of totally nonspin manifolds, to be
published in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 2008.
- Bounded rigidity of spaces of slow asymptotic growth, to appear in
the Journal of K-theory, 2008.
- Topological nonrigidity of nonuniform lattices, Communications
on Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol 60 (2007), 282-290.
- On Novikov-type conjectures (with Weinberger), Clay
Mathematical Proceedings, volume 6 (2006), 43-70.
- On conjectures of Mathai and Borel, Geometriae Dedicata 106 (2004),
161-167.
- On invariants of Hirzebruch and Cheeger-Gromov (with Weinberger),
Geometry and Topology 7 (2003), 311-319.
- Coarse obstructions to positive scalar curvature metrics
in noncompact arithmetic manifolds, Journal of Differential
Geometry, vol 57, no. 1 (2001), 1-22.
- A special linear operator on M_4(R) (with Li),
Linear Algebra and Multilinear Algebra, 30:65-75, 1990.
- Certain isometries in R^n (with Li), Linear
Algebra and Its Applications, 165:251-256, 1992.
OTHER INTERESTS
- Languages: classroom experience with Biblical Hebrew,
Ancient Greek, Latin, German, French, Spanish, Italian,
oral familiarity with Mandarin.