Department of Mathematics
University of Florida
308 Little Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611-8105
Phone: (352) 294-2307
Fax: (352) 392-8357
Email: groisser@ufl.edu.
When emailing me, please include your full name and an informative
subject line, so that I know your email is not spam.
“Throughout the whole history of science most of the really great discoveries which had ultimately proved to be beneficial to mankind had been made by men and women who were driven not by the desire to be useful but merely the desire to satisfy their curiosity” — Abraham Flexner, founder, Institute for Advanced Study.
Research Interests
- Differential geometry
Global analysis
Gauge theory
Applications of differential geometry to image-analysis and statistics
Curriculum Vitae
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Classes
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Office Hours (Spring 2024)
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Monday 5th period (11:45–12:35), Wednesday 6th period (12:50–1:40), and Friday 9th period (4:05 – 4:55).
My full schedule is here. My office, Little 308, is in the southeastern quadrant of the building.
Miscellaneous Links
- Math department home page
- University Calendar
- Open-Textbooks Catalog
- How UT-Austin’s Bold Plan for Reinvention Went Belly Up: The rise and fall of one research university’s attempt to shake up undergraduate education. (Articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education, such as this one, can be accessed by UF students and staff for free from a UF computer or via a VPN connection to the UF computer network.)
- Article about Academic Analytics, the data company UF is using to evaluate professors. (Articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education, such as this one, can be accessed by UF students and staff for free from a UF computer or via a VPN connection to the UF computer network.) “As with previous faculty protests of the company at Georgetown and Rutgers Universities, UT-Austin faculty members cited concerns about the accuracy of Academic Analytics’ data, the lack of opportunities for professors to correct errors, and the inappropriateness of numerical rankings for making complex decisions about people and education. Academic Analytics’ definitions of scholarly productivity `are likely to skew, redirect, narrow, and otherwise have an outsized influence on the type and quality of scholarship produced by UT-Austin faculty,’ the [UT-Austin] resolution said.” Professors whose research contributions cannot easily be evaluated by using statistical data are in danger of losing their jobs. This process is already under way at UF. Faculty whose research does not require large sums of money from outside the university are especially at risk.
- Media multitaskers pay mental price, Stanford study shows.Think you can talk on the phone, send an instant message and read your e-mail all at once? Stanford researchers say even trying may impair your cognitive control. As I have long said: concentration good, multi-tasking bad.
- From The Onion: Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be
- A letter to the Alligator, written by me in 2000, concerning the teaching of evolution
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