Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics

Expertise

geometric group theory, topology

Awards and Honors

President, Association for Women in Mathematics (2013)

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012)

Trustee, American Mathematical Society (2012)

Mathematical Association of America Distinguished Lecturer (2008)

Executive Committee, American Mathematical Society (2007)

Harry S. Levitan Reading and Education Prize (2007)

Trustee, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (2007)

Vice President of the American Mathematical Society (2005)

Invited Research Professor, Universite de Dijon, France (2004)

Visting member, Institute for Advanced Study (1992 - 1993)

Visting member, Institute for Advanced Study (1986 - 1987)

Visting member, Institutes des Houtes Etudes Scientifiques, Paris (1982 - 1983)

Yale Junior Faculty Fellowship (1982 - 1983)

NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship (1979 - 1980)

Courses Taught

MATH	3a	Mathematics for Elementary and Middle School Teachers
MATH	23b	Introduction to Proofs
MATH	121a	Topology I
MATH	221a	Topology III
MATH	221b	Topics in Topology
USEM	2c	Physical Science Frontiers

Scholarship

R. Charney, N. Stambaugh, and K. Vogtmann. "Outer space for right-angled Artin groups, I." arXiv:1212.4791 (2012) (forthcoming)

Charney, Ruth and Vogtmann, Karen. "Subgroups and quotients of automorphisms of RAAGs." Geometry and Topology Monographs (2010). (forthcoming)

R. Charney abd M. Margolis. "Length functions of actions of right-angled Artin groups." Geometriae Dedicata DOI 10.1007/s10711-012-9784-3. (2012).

R. Charney and J. Behrstock. "Divergence and quasimorphisms of right-angled Artin groups." Mathematische Annalen 352. (2012): 339--356.

R. Charney and M. Farber. "Random groups arising as graph products." Algebraic and Geometric Topology 12. 2 (2012): 979--995.

R. Charney, J. Cohen and A. Rizk. "Efficient Synthesis of a Class of Boolean Programs from I-O Data: Application to Genetic Networks." Discrete Applied Mathematics 159. 6 (2011): 410-419.

R. Charney, K. Ruane, N. Stambaugh, and A. Vijayan. "Automorphism groups of graph groups with no SIL." Illinois Journal of Math 54. 1 (2011): 249-262.

Charney, Ruth and Vogtmann, Karen. "Finiteness properties of automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups." Bulletin, London Mathematical Society 41. 1 (2009): 94--102.

Charney, Ruth, Bux, K.-U., and Vogtmann, K.. "Automorphisms of two-dimensional RAAGS and partially symmetric automorphisms of free groups." Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics 3. (2009): 525--539.

Charney, Ruth, and Vogtmann, Karen. "Automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups." L'Enseignement Mathematique 54. (2008): 71-72.

Charney, Ruth and Crisp, John. "Relative hyperbolicity and Artin groups." Geometriae Dedicata 129. (2007): 1-13.

Charney, Ruth, Crisp, John and Vogtmann, Karen. "Automorphisms of 2-dimensional right-angled Artin groups." Geometry & Topology 11. (2007): 2227-2264.

Charney, Ruth. "An introduction to right-angled Artin groups." Geometriae Dedicata 125. (2007): 141-158.

Charney,Ruth and Crisp, John. "Automorphis groups of some affine and finite type Artin group." Mathematical Research Letters 12. (2005): 321--333.

Charney, Ruth. "The Deligne complex for the four-strand braid group." Transactions AMS 356. (2004): 3881--3897.

Charney,Ruth and Meier, John. "The language of geodesics for Garside groups." Mathematische Zeitschrift 248. (2004): 495-509.

Charney,Ruth, Meier, John, and Whittlesey, Kim. "Bestvina's normal form comples and the homology of Garside groups." Geometriae Dedicata 105. (2004): 171-188.

Charney,Ruth. "The Deligne complex for the four-strand braid group." Transactions AMS (2004): 3881-3897.

Charney,Ruth, Peifer, D.. "The K(pi,1)-conjecture for the Affine braid groups." Commentari Math. Helv. (2003): 584-600.

Charney,Ruth, Davis, M.W.. "The K(pi,1)-problem for hyperplane complements associated to infinite reflection groups." Journal of the AMS (1995): 597--627.