John Loftin


The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

The Colloquium at Rutgers-Newark

Current courses (Fall 2009):

  • Computer Science 102 (Computers and Programming II)
  • Differentiable Manifolds

    Here is a copy of my CV (pdf)

    Course notes for Real Analysis II: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4.

    Email address: loftin at rutgers.edu
    Office: 309 Smith Hall
    Office hours: M 1:00-2:00, W 11:30-12:30, or make an appointment
    Phone: 973 353 3910 (email is a much better way to reach me)
    Research:
  • Research statement
  • My thesis
  • Affine Spheres and Convex RPn-Manifolds, American Journal of Mathematics, April, 2001.
  • Riemannian Metrics on Locally Projectively Flat Manifolds, American Journal of Mathematics, June, 2002.
  • Affine Spheres and Kähler-Einstein Metrics, Mathematical Research Letters, July, 2002.
  • The Compactification of the Moduli Space of Convex RP2 Surfaces, I, Journal of Differential Geometry, October, 2004.
  • Singular Semi-Flat Calabi-Yau Metrics on S2, Communications in Analysis and Geometry, March, 2005.
  • Affine Manifolds, SYZ Geometry and the "Y" Vertex, with S.T. Yau and Eric Zaslow, Journal of Differential Geometry, September, 2005.
            Erratum to Affine Manifolds, SYZ Geometry and the "Y" Vertex, 2008.
  • Flat Metrics, Cubic Differentials and Limits of Projective Holonomies, Geometriae Dedicata, August, 2007.
  • Ancient Solutions of the Affine Normal Flow, with M.P. Tsui, Journal of Differential Geometry, January, 2008.
  • Affine Hermitian-Einstein Metrics, Asian Journal of Mathematics, March, 2009.
  • Limits of Solutions to a Parabolic Monge-Ampère Equation, with M.P. Tsui, to appear, Proceedings of the International Conference on Geometric Analysis, NCTS (Taipei, Taiwan; June, 2007).
  • Survey on Affine Spheres, submitted, 2008.
    Old courses:

    Spring 2009:

  • Computer Science 101 (Computers and Programming I), Section 03
  • Discrete Structures

    Fall 2008:

  • Calculus I

    Fall 2007:

  • Discrete Structures
  • Advanced Data Structures

    Spring 2007:

  • Real Analysis II
  • Principles of Operating Systems

    Fall 2006:

  • Data Structures and Algorithm Design
  • Discrete Structures

    Spring 2006:

  • Computers and Programming II (access via Blackboard)
  • Discrete Structures

    Fall 2005:

  • Precalculus
  • Discrete Structures

    Spring 2005:

  • Real Analysis II

    Spring 2004:

  • Computer Science 101 (Computers and Programming): Sections 02, 03

    Fall 2003:

  • Differential Manifolds