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Sumio Yamada Assistant Professor, UAB Department of Mathematics
	Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 495A Campbell Hall, Birmingham AL 35294-1170	Voice: (205) 934-2154 FAX: (205) 934-9025

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Research My research interests are in differential geometry, partial differential equations, complex analysis and general relativity.
Previous work concerned:

Weil-Petersson geometry of Teichmuller spaces.

Harmonic mappings into hyperbolic surfaces.

Analysis of singular behavior of nonlinear elliptic PDE's.

Applications of harmonic mapping theory to group-theoretic rigidity questions.

General relativity and Penrose inequality.

Minimal surface/network.

Teaching; Fall 2003	Office hours:	Monday : 3-5pm, or by appointment.
	MA270/413/513 Geometry:	Text: Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometires by Marvin J. Greenberg
	MA126 Calculus II:	Text: Calculus by James Stewart

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Research	My research interests are in differential geometry, partial differential equations, complex analysis and general relativity. Previous work concerned:
	Weil-Petersson geometry of Teichmuller spaces. Harmonic mappings into hyperbolic surfaces. Analysis of singular behavior of nonlinear elliptic PDE's. Applications of harmonic mapping theory to group-theoretic rigidity questions. General relativity and Penrose inequality. Minimal surface/network.