Nathan Broaddus

L.E. Dickson Instructor

- Contact Info
- - Email: broaddus@math.uchicago.edu
  - Office: Eckhart 411
  - Office Phone: 773-702-7394
  - Department Fax: 773-702-9787
  - Office Hours: TBA

- Postal Address
- Department of Mathematics
  University of Chicago
  5734 S. University Ave.
  Chicago, IL 60637
- Teaching
- - Winter 2008
    - Honors Calculus II - Math 162 Section 41
  - Fall 2007
    - Honors Calculus I - Math 161 Section 41
    - Intro to Analysis and Linear Algebra - Math 199 Section 53
  - Spring 2007
    - Elem Algebraic Topology - Math 263 Section 50
  - Fall 2006
    - Honors Calculus - Math 161 Section 31
    - Intro to Analysis and Linear Algebra - Math 199 Section 53
- Education and Employment
- - L.E. Dickson Instructor - University of Chicago, Current
  - NSF Postdoc - University of Chicago, 2005-2006
  - NSF Postdoc - Cornell University, 2003-2005
  - Ph.D. Math - Columbia University, 1997-2003
  - B.S. Math - University of Chicago, 1993-1997
- Research Interests
- Low-dimesional topology, Mapping class groups, Geometric group theory
- Papers and Preprints
- - Homology of the curve complex and the Steinberg module of the mapping class group (submitted)
    - arXiv:0711.0011
  - Irreducible Sp-representations and subgroup distortion in the mapping class group (submitted)
    - with Benson Farb and Andrew Putman
    - arXiv:0707.2262
  - The Casson invariant and the word metric on the Torelli group
    - with Benson Farb and Andrew Putman
    - N. Broaddus, B. Farb and A. Putman, The Casson invariant and the word metric on the Torelli group, C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 345 (2007), no. 8, 449—452.
    - Published version doi:10.1016/j.crma.2007.09.018
    - arXiv:0707.2264
  - Calculating the image of the second Johnson-Morita representation (to appear in Proceedings of Groups of Diffeomorphisms 2006)
    - with Joan Birman and Tara Brendle
    - arXiv:0708.3861
  - Noncyclic covers of knot complements

- Curriculum Vitae
- Links
- - MathSciNet
  - University of Chicago Math Department