Maura B. Mast

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Massachusetts Boston
Boston, MA 02125-3393

phone: (617) 287-6454

Teaching Schedule, Fall 2007
- Math Q114, Quantitative Reasoning: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1 - 2:15 pm
- Math 360, Abstract Algebra I: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:30 - 3:45
- Office Hours: Tu/Th 11:30-12:45 and by appointment (e-mail is best to schedule an appointment)
Research Interests: the geometry of two-step nilmanifolds; quantitative literacy
Publications

Minimal marked length spectrum of Riemannian two-step nilmanifolds (with Ruth Gornet), Michigan Math. J. 52, iss. 3 (2004), 683–716, doi:10.1307/mmj/1100623420.
Quantitative Reasoning at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, (with Mack Pawlak), in Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy, edited by R. Gillman, MAA publications, 2006
Length minimizing geodesics and the length spectrum of Riemannian two-step nilmanifolds (with Ruth Gornet), Journal of Geometric Analysis, 13, No. 1, 2003 (first page).
The length spectrum of Riemannian two-step nilmanifolds (with Ruth Gornet). Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure (4) 33 (2000), no. 2, 181–209, (PDF).
Low-dimensional 2-step nilpotent Lie groups in resonance. Algebras Groups Geom. 14 (1997), no. 3, 321–337.
Closed geodesics in 2-step nilmanifolds. Indiana Univ. Math. J. 43 (1994), no. 3, 885–911.

Quantitative Reasoning Course Development, Director
Clerk, Association for Women in Mathematics.
Chair, SIGMAA-QL (Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America on Quantitative Literacy)
Member, Joint Committee for Women in Mathematics

Maura B. Mast

E-mail: mmast@math.umb.edu Last revised August 26, 2007