Scholastic Background of David Shaw

Mathematics Courses at UCSD:
100A Modern Algebra [Instructor: Linda Rothschild]
100C Modern Algebra [Instructor: Linda Rothschild]
177 Geometry and The Imagination for Math Majors [Instructor: Peter Doyle, assisted by Michael Freedman and John Conway]
140A Foundations of Analysis [Instructor: Jay Fillmore]
140B Foundations of Analysis [Instructor: Jay Fillmore]
150A Classical Differential Geometry [Instructor: Jay Fillmore]
150B Calculus on Manifolds [Instructor: Jay Fillmore]
151 Topics in Geometry [Instructor: Jay Fillmore, Topic: Lie Circular Geometry]
151 Topics in Geometry [Instructor: Jay Fillmore, Topic: Clifford Algebras]
151 Topics in Geometry [Instructor: Jay Fillmore, Topic: Projective Geometry]
190 Introduction to Topology [Instructor: Peter Doyle]
191 Topics in Topology [Instructor: Peter Doyle, Topic: Homotopy Theory]
210A Mathematical Methods in Physics and Engineering [Instructor: Jeffrey Rabin]
250A Differentiable Manifolds [Instructor: Bruce Driver]
250B Riemannian Geometry [Instructor: Bruce Driver]
250C Integration on Manifolds [Instructor: Bruce Driver]
251A Lie Groups and Lie Algebras [Instructor: Thomas Enright]
251B Lie Groups and Lie Algebras [Instructor: Thomas Enright]

Physics Courses at UCSD:
100A Electromagnetism
110A Mechanics
160 Stellar Astrophysics [Instructor: Geoffrey Burbidge]

Additional Studies:
Independent research 1990-1
Paper on Ruled and Developable surfaces and vector displacement techniques of Levi-Civita.
[project advisor: Jay Fillmore]
Geometry Center Summer Institute 1994
Worked on a project in the area of tight immersions of surfaces (both polyhedral and smooth) looking at Cervone's polyhedral solution for the real projective plane with one handle and comparing it to Haab's work with the smooth version of the same surface.
[project advisor: Anthony Phillips]
Independent research 1995-6
Preliminary paper on contour diagrams and regular homotopy of orientable surfaces in Euclidean three space.
[project advisor: Anthony Phillips, additional help from Michael Freedman]
Independent research 1995
Preliminary work on alternative to inflation cosmology.