Michael Bolt

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
1740 Knollcrest Circle SE
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4403

Office:  292 North Hall
Telephone:  616-526-6719
Fax:   616-526-6501
E-mail:    mbolt@calvin.edu

    
      Photo by Dave Raczkowski, Copyright 2005,
      The Grand Rapids Press.
      All rights reserved; used with permission.

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COURSES IN INTERIM AND SPRING, 2008

Math 160 (A) Calculus I

Math 391 (A) Colloquium

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RECENT PRESENTATIONS

"Paint by number: a visualization of complex functions." Michigan MAA meeting, UM-Dearborn (May, 2007)   [link] [abstract]

"Möbius geometry of hypersurfaces." Midwest SCV Conference, University of Michigan (March, 2007)   [link]

"The mathematics of Escher's 'Print Gallery'." Wayne State University, Student Colloquium (March, 2007)   [abstract] [links]

"The geometry of inversions." MMPC Awards Day, Delta College (February, 2005)  

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CURRICULUM VITAE

An abbreviated CV
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RESEARCH AREAS

Complex analysis, differential geometry, conformal mapping
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PUBLICATIONS

  1. With S.L. Haan, H. Nymeyer, and R. Grobe, "Effects of positive-ion resonances in
    photoionization of neutral atoms," Phys. Rev. A 51, 4640-4651 (1995).
  2. "A local geometric characterization of the Bochner-Martinelli kernel."
    Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 131 (2003), 1131-1136.
  3. "Holomorphic reproducing kernels for piecewise-smooth planar domains."
    Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 296 (2004), 154-164.
  4. "Spectrum of the Kerzman-Stein operator for model domains."
    Integral Equations and Operator Theory, 50 (2004), 305-315.
  5. "A geometric characterization: complex ellipsoids and the Bochner-Martinelli kernel."
    Illinois Journal of Mathematics, 49 (2005), 811-826. pdf
  6. "Spectrum of the Kerzman-Stein operator for the ellipse."
    Integral Equations and Operator Theory, 57 (2007), 167-184. pdf
  7. With David E. Barrett, "Cauchy integrals and Möbius geometry of curves."
    Asian Journal of Mathematics, 11 (2007), 47-54.
  8. "A lower estimate for the norm of the Kerzman-Stein operator."
    Journal of Integral Equations and Applications, 19 (2007), 453-463. pdf
  9. "Extremal properties of logarithmic spirals."
    Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie, 48 (2007), 493-520. pdf
  10. "The Möbius geometry of hypersurfaces."
    (to appear in Michigan Mathematical Journal) pdf

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