Professor James Damon

His research interests concentrate mainly on the singularity theory and its application to nonlinear problems. He conducts studies on mathematical modeling in medical sciences.

Professor James Damon graduated from Oxford University and obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 1972 under supervision of Professor John Mather. He works at the University of North Carolina, Department of Mathematics.

His research relates to connections within topological stability of smooth mappings, establishing the basic theoreme of singularity theory  for equivalence relation  preserving additional structures for smooth or holomorphic mappings and establishing topological analogues of these theoreme with their application for the research of  topological stability. In addition, he studies local structure of nonlinear Fredholm operators and singular Milnor fibers and their applications for nonisolated complete intersections, including discriminants and nonlinear arrangements of hypersurfaces. Moreover, he works on computer imaging, local and relative geometry of objects, global geometry via skeletal and medial integrals, and characterizing complexity of 3D regions via graph structures. Professor J. Damon is an author or coauthor of over 100 books and many articles. He is an active member of American Mathematical Society.

Professor J. Damon will visit Warsaw University of Technology from April to June 2010. He will be hosted by Professor Tadeusz Mostowski and Professor Stanisław Janeczko.