Craig Westerland Future Fellow and Lecturer Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Melbourne Parkville VIC 3010 Australia Office: 168 Richard Berry Building Phone: +61 3 8344 9712 Fax: +61 3 8344 4599 C.Westerland@ms.unimelb.edu.au

 

Research

My research is in algebraic topology. I am particularly interested to connections with geometry, mathematical physics and number theory.  My work has focused on the homotopy theory of function, configuration, and moduli spaces.  If it were possible to reduce the last 8 or 10 years to buzzwords, they would be: string topology, equivariant homotopy theory, Hochschild and cyclic homology, operads, Batalin-Vilkovisky and gravity algebras, moduli and their compactifications, prospectra, stable splittings, Brown-Gitler spectra, Hurwitz spaces, homological stability and asymptotics, braid groups, and (topological) (conformal) field theories.

Current teaching:

MAST 30024 Geometry.  Lecture Tuesday 10-11, Wednesday 4:15-5:15, Friday 12-1; Practice class Tuesday 2:15-3:15, all in 213 Richard Berry.
Consultation hours: Tuesday 11-12 and 3:15-5:00.

Many shameless thanks to Zajj Daugherty for the formatting of this site, and Katie Moyer for the photo.