Office:  304 Goldsmith

Phone:  781-736-3071

Email:  “lastname”@brandeis.edu

Office hours:  Mon 3:30-5:30,  Th 12:00-1:00

My area of research is geometric group theory, the study of groups through their actions on topological metric spaces.  Some of my favorite topics are groups of non-positive curvature (CAT(0) groups, hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic groups), braid groups, Artin groups, Coxeter groups, and automorphism groups.

Research

Links to some of my papers 

Publication list

Teaching, Fall 2011:

Math 23B, Introduction to Proofs:  M,W 2-3:30

Math 121b, Topology I:  M,W,Th 11:00-12:30

Brandeis Topology Seminar

Spring 2011:  I will be on leave, visiting the ETH in Zurich

and the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm

Mailing address:

Ruth Charney

Dept of Mathematics, MS 050

Brandeis University,

415 South Street

Waltham, MA 02453