Jean Gallier, Professor

Computer and Information Science Department
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Pennsylvania

Email: jean@cis.upenn.edu
Telephone: (215) 898-4405
Curriculum Vitae (ps),   (pdf)
Ancestor "Billy" Gallier (from Wyoming) (jpg)
Editor's Duties

- Also a member of:

• Department of Mathematics (secondary appointment)
• Center for Human Modelling and Simulation
• GRASP Laboratory
• Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
• Logic and Computation Group

November 30, 2007. My grandson, Demitrius, his mother, grandfather (me) and father jpg
The Gallier family (before Mia!) at the Col d'Arsine (Hautes Alpes)
Mia eating ice cream, Summer 99
Mia after Eurodysney, Summer 99
Mia in pink, Fall 97
Philippe, Sylvie, My mother June 1999
Mia and me in China, October 97
Sylvie and me on the equator, December 96
More photos Alpes, August 2004
The "Gallier Brothers"
The empowerment group

Research Interests

Selected Writings

After 1993: Geometry and its applications (3D graphics, computer vision), geometric modeling, geometry of curves and surfaces, algebraic geometry, differential geometry, medical imaging

Selected Writings

Research Papers and Books

Morgan Kaufmann and Amazon.com

Review in MathSciNet (item 1) MathSciNet

The following book appeared on November 3, 2000

Springer NY and Amazon.com

Review in MathSciNet (item 2) MathSciNet

Recent Manuscript(s) (in progress)

• Isometries of Hermitian Spaces and a Glimpse at Hilbert Spaces   (ps)
• The Classification Theorem for Compact Surfaces And a Detour on Fractals   (html)
• Convex Sets, Polytopes, Combinatorial Topology, Voronoi Diagrams and Delaunay Triangulations   (html)
• Notes on Differential Geometry and Lie Groups   (html)

Hot off the Press! Papers in progress

Books

Lecture Notes

Algebraic Geometry and Algebra

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