Christina Sormani

Christina Sormani
Citizenship	United States
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Lehman College City University of New York
Alma mater	New York University
Thesis	Noncompact Manifolds with Lower Ricci Curvature Bounds and Minimal Volume Growth (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Jeff Cheeger
Doctoral students	Sajjad Lakzian Michael Munn Pedro Solorzano Mancera Raquel Perales Aguilar
Known for	Riemannian geometry
Notable awards	Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Christina Sormani is a professor of mathematics at City University of New York affiliated with Lehman College and the CUNY Graduate Center.^[1] She is known for her research in Riemannian geometry, metric geometry, and Ricci curvature, as well as her work on the notion of intrinsic flat distance.^[2]

Career

Sormani received her Ph.D. from New York University in 1996 under Jeff Cheeger.^[3] She then took postdoctoral positions at Harvard University (under Shing-Tung Yau) and Johns Hopkins University (under William Minicozzi II).^[4] Sormani now works at Lehman College in the City University of New York and at the CUNY Graduate Center.^[1]

Awards and honors

In 2009, Sormani was an invited speaker at the Geometry Festival.^[5]

In 2015, Sormani became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[6]

Selected publications

• Sormani, Christina. Nonnegative Ricci curvature, small linear diameter growth and finite generation of fundamental groups. J. Differential Geom. 54 (2000), no. 3, 547–559.
• Sormani, Christina; Wei, Guofang. Hausdorff convergence and universal covers. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 353 (2001), no. 9, 3585–3602.
• Sormani, Christina; Wei, Guofang. Universal covers for Hausdorff limits of noncompact spaces. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), no. 3, 1233–1270
• Sormani, Christina, and Stefan Wenger. "Intrinsic flat convergence of manifolds and other integral current spaces." Journal of Differential Geometry 87 (2011).

References

1. "Professor Sormani". Google sites. Retrieved Mar 9, 2015.
2. Morgan, Frank (May 28, 2012). "Math now--Commencement can wait". Huffington Post. Retrieved Mar 9, 2015.
3. Christina Sormani at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. "Eminent Women in Science Seminar: Christina Sormani, PhD". Rutgers University. Retrieved Mar 9, 2015.
5. • 24th Annual Geometry Festival 2009 in memory of Detlef Gromoll
6. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society