Tom Braden Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Massachusetts, Amherst Office: Lederle Graduate Research Tower 1240 Phone: (413) 545-1732 email: braden at math dot umass dot edu

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Teaching

Math 300, Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics, section 1, MWF 10:10-11:00
Math 461, Geometry I, MWF 1:25-2:15

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Research

Interests: Topology and singularities of algebraic varieties;  intersection (co)homology and perverse sheaves;  Schubert varieties, toric varieties, and their generalizations;  connections to combinatorics and representation theory. 

A more detailed description of my research
A list of my publications
CV (pdf format)

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A few math links

• Planar Machines - An invitation to topology. By Dori Eldar, an MSc student of Dror Bar-Natan .
  
• Polymake, a software system to compute with convex polytopes
• EG-Models, an archive of electronic models of geometric objects (polytopes and simplicial/cell complexes).
• Some mathematical history

Nonmathematical links