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Robin Forman
Dept. of Mathematics
Rice University
P. O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251

Tel. (713) 348-4835
Math. Dept. (713) 348-4829
Fax. (713) 285-5231

Professor of Mathematics

Research Interests

• Global Analysis and Combinatorial Topology.

Recent Papers

• Combinatorial Differential Topology and Geometry (postscript file) (in New Perspectives in Algebraic Combinatorics, an MSRI publication)
• Bochner's Method for Cell Complexes and Combinatorial Ricci Curvature (to appear in the J. of Discrete and Computational Geom.)
• Bochner's Method for Cell Complexes and Combinatorial Ricci Curvature (amstex file - this version does not have the figures)
• Novikov-Morse Theory for Cell Complexes (postscript file - to appear in Int. J. of Math.)
• Morse Theory and Evasiveness (postscript file - to appear in Combinatorica)
• Euler Characteristic is the Unique Locally Determined Numerical Invariant of Simplicial Complexes which assigns the Same Number to Every Cone (amstex file - to appear in J. of Discrete and Computational Geometry)
• Discrete Morse Theory and the Cohomology Ring (postscript file - to appear in Transactions of the A.M.S.)
• How Many Equilibria are There? An Introduction to Morse Theory (postscript file)
• Lessons from graduate school (latex file - to appear in the Asian J. of Math, a special volume in honor of Atiyah, Bott, Hirzebruch and Singer)
• Finite-type invariants for graphs and graph reconstructions (latex file)
• A user's guide to discrete Morse theory (postscript file)
• Some applications of combinatorial differential topology (postscript file)
• A Topological Approach to the Game of "20 Questions" (a postscript file)

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