Welcome to Alexandre Barchechat's Homepage

Address:

Mail:

Mathematics Department
Seattle University
901 12^th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122-1090
USA

E-mail: barcheca@seattleu.edu

Office: 216 Bannan.

Research Area:

Low-Dimensional Topology, Geometric Topology, Triangulations of 3-manifolds.
I am currently working on collapsing normal 2-spheres in minimal triangulations of compact orientable 3-manifolds.
My thesis: Triangles.

Articles:
Connected sums of triangulated 3-manifolds, submitted to Geometry and Topology.
Decomposing a minimal triangulation into irreducible pieces in polynomial time, in preparation.
A sharp upper bound for a maximal collection of disjoint essential non-parallel 2-spheres, in preparation.
Collapsing normal tori, in preparation.

 

Teaching:

MATH 110: Functions and Algebraic Methods.

 

Personal:

Nicole Hoover, the love of my life. She is a math instructor at University of New Orleans.
Pictures of my family.
Some funny pictures: greatest moments in sports.
Some recipes.
Private.

Some math web sites:

Links to low-dimensional topology.
History of mathematicians.
The geometry junkyard.
The Math ArXiv.
To download: Tex or Latex compilers: (MiKTeX) , and ghostcript and ghostview: (ghost).

 

Other non-math links:

Ashtanga yoga in New Orleans.
Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute: AYRI .
The Ayurvedic Institute.
Grow your own sprouts!