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Victor J. Donnay

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Professor
Department of Mathematics
Bryn Mawr College,
Bryn Mawr, Pa 19010
 
email: vdonnay@brynmawr.edu
phone: 610-526-5352
fax: 610-526-6575
dept. phone: 610-526-5348

 

Research Interests:

My area of research is chaotic properties of dynamical systems. Systems that I am particularly interested include geodesic flow on surfaces and billiards.

 

 

This picture shows an unusal shaped sphere which exists in three dimensional space whose geodesic flow is ergodic. From the article by Keith Burns and Victor Donnay, Embedded surfaces with ergodic geodesic flow, Inter. J. of Bifurcation and Chaos Vol. 7, No. 7 (1997), 1509-1527.

More such pictures.  

List of publications.

 

Educational Interests:

Together with my students, I have worked to develop ways to bring mathematics to a wider audience in interesting and understandable ways.

 

Math-Science Partnership of Greater Philadelphia: MSPGP

I am  a Co-Principal Investigator for the Math Science Partnership of Greater Philadelphia (MSPG), which recently received a $12.5 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation to improve pre-college math and science education.  Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges are core partners in the MSPGP and are undertaking a variety of initatives.

In concert with these initiatives, the Bi-College Education Program has initiated a low cost fifth year option to make it easier for students to become certified in secondary education.

Bryn Mawr and the MSPGP are co-sponsoring a symposium on “Strategies that support Students Success in Math and Science” on Wednesday March 19, 2008. Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, President of University Maryland Baltimore County, is the keynote speakers.

Teaching:

Spring 2006:      Math 302: Real Analysis II

                        Education 220: Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education. Brief course description.

Fall 2006:          Math 102: Calculus II.

Spring 2006:      Math 210: Differential Equations with Applications.

Fall 2005:           Math 201: Multivariable Calculus Enriched Section

Education 220: Changing Pedagogies in Math and Science Education.

Previous Courses taught.

 

Faculty Study Groups:

I was the organized of a

·       Tri-College faculty study group on mathematical modeling (2003-04) support by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

·       Bi-Co and secondary teacher seminar on new pedagogical approaches in math and science education (2004-05) funded by the MSPGP.