Kim Whittlesey

Address:
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
kwhittle@illinois.edu
326 Altgeld Hall

Math 220 Fall 2023 on Moodle

Math 241 Fall 2022 on Moodle

Older classes

Diagnostic Quiz on Precalculus and Calculus I skills needed for Math 231, and associated worksheets

Research Interests:  Geometric group theory: in particular: braid groups, mapping  class groups, and word hyperbolic groups. Computational topology: in particular, algorithms in braid groups, finding shortest curves on surfaces.

Papers and Research Interests
Summer REU in Geometric Group Theory, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008
ICTM Math Contest (at the University of Illinois through 2019)
Saudi Aramco Research Science Initiative (SARSI 2016) in Damman with slides