VITAE

ZACHARY ROBINSON

NOVEMBER 2003

Education

1990 Ph.D.       Harvard University, Cambridge MA

1985 A.M.        Harvard University, Cambridge MA

1983 S.B.         MIT, Cambridge MA

Professional Experience

8/00-present     Associate Professor, East Carolina University, Greenville NC

1/02-5/02         Visiting Associate Professor, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN

8/94-8/00         Assistant Professor, East Carolina University, Greenville NC

1/99-7/99         Visiting Researcher, University of Pisa, Italy

1/95-12/95       CNR Research Fellow, University of Pisa, Italy

8/92-5/94         Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN

8/90-5/92         Research Assistant Professor, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN

Publications

1. (with R. Cluckers and L. Lipshitz) “Rigid analytic cell decomposition,” In Preparation.

2. (with L. Lipshitz) “Flattening and analytic continuation of affinoid morphisms: remarks on a paper of Gardener and Schoutens,” 19 pages, Submitted.

3. (with L. Lipshitz) “Uniform Properties of Rigid Subanalytic Sets,” 33 pages, Submitted.

4. (with V. DeBellis, R. Preston, S. Rachlin and R. Sinicrope) “Improving the preparation of  middle grades mathematics teachers: the case of East Carolina University,” Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Charlotte NC, 2000.

5. “A rigid analytic approximation theorem,” Astérisque 264(2000), 151-168.

6. (with L. Lipshitz) “Quasi-affinoid varieties,” Astérisque 264(2000), 127-149.

7. (with L. Lipshitz) “Model completeness and subanalytic sets,” Astérisque 264(2000), 109-126.

8. (with L. Lipshitz) “Rings of separated power series,” Astérisque 264(2000), 3-108.

9. (with L. Lipshitz) “Dimension theory and smooth stratification of rigid subanalytic sets,” in: Prague ASL Logic Colloquium 1998, S. Buss, P. Hajek, P. Pudlak, editors, Springer-Verlag, 2000, 302-315.

10. (with L. Lipshitz) “Rigid subanalytic sets of curves and surfaces,” Journal of the London Mathematical Society (2), 59(1999), 895-921.

11. (with L. Lipshitz) “One dimensional fibers of rigid subanalytic sets,” Journal of Symbolic Logic, 63(1998), 83-88.

12. “Flatness and smooth points of p-adic subanalytic sets,” Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 88(1997), 217-225.

13. (with L. Lipshitz) “Rigid subanalytic subsets of the line and the plane,” American Journal of Mathematics 118(1996). 493-527.

14. “Smooth points of p-adic subanalytic sets,” Manuscripta Mathematica 80(1993), 45-71.

15. (with S. Robinson) “Uniformly continuous partitions of unity on a metric space,” Canadian Mathematical Bulletin 26(1983), 115-117.

16. (with B. Scott) “The boundary topology of a space,” American Mathematical Monthly 89(1982), 307-309.

Grants

1. (with L. Lipshitz, co-PI) NSF, DMS-0070724, June 2000—May 2004, $175,500, approximately equally split between co-PIs.

2. (L. Lipshitz, co-PI) NSF, DMS-9704981, June 1997-May 2000, $159,000, approximately equally split between co-PIs.

3. Member, senior personnel, ECU Middle Math Project (PIs: S. Rachlin and R. Preston), supported by the ECU Mathematics Department and NSF, DUE-9752659, provided teaching release time and consultant’s fees, August 1998-May 2000.

4. Travel Grant for Workshop on New Directions in the Model Theory of Henselian Valued Fields, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, UK, May 1999, $1000.

5. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Special Semester in the Model Theory of Fields, Berkeley, October 1996, $4000.

6. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bando n. 211.01.28 del 31/7/93, Protocollo 056483, Posizione 212.352, January 1995-December 1995, host institution, University of Pisa, Lit 28,300,000=$18,850.

7. (L. Lipshitz, co-PI) NSF, DMS-9401451, June 1994-May 1997, $227,000, approximately equally split between co-PIs.

Invited Research Presentations

1.  “Improving the preparation of middle grades mathematics teachers: the case of East Carolina University,” Fourth Annual Meeting of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators, Charlotte NC, February 2000.

2. “Rigid Subanalytic Sets,” 1999-2000 ASL Winter Meeting, Washington DC, January 2000.

3. “Acyclicity for the quasi-affinoid structure sheaf,” Workshop on New Directions in the Model Theory of Henselian Valued Fields, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, UK, May 1999.

4. “Logic and Geometry: Elimination of Quantifiers,” Mathematics Department Colloquium, II Università di Napoli, Caserta, Italy, April 1999.

5. “Artin Approximation in Rigid Analytic Geometry,” Logic Seminar, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, February 1999.

6. “A global approximation theorem,” Special Semester in the Model Theory of Fields, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA, June 1998.

7. “Images of p-adic analytic maps,” Algebra Seminar, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, March 1998.

8. “Introduction to affinoid algebras,” Workshop on Model Theory of Analytic Functions,” The Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada, March 1997.

9. “Rigid analytic elimination theory,” London Mathematical Society Symposium on the Model Theory of Fields, University of Durham, Durham, UK, July 1996.

10. “More on Rigid Subanalytic Sets,” Logic Seminar, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, November 1995.

11. “More on Rigid Subanalytic Sets,” Algebra and Number Theory Seminar, University of Leuven, Belgium, November 1995.

12. “Flatness and smooth points of p-adic subanalytic sets,” joint meeting of the Kurt Gödel Society and the Italian Association for Logic and its Applications, Florence, Italy, August 1995.

13. “Smooth points of p-adic subanalytic sets,” J-I Igusa Conference, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, April 1993.

14. “Rigid subanalytic subsets of the plane,” Special Session on Model Theory and Algebra, American Mathematical Society Joint Meetings, San Antonio TX, January 1993.

15. “Smooth Points of p-adic subanalytic sets,” Midwest Model Theory Meeting, University of Illinois, Urbana IL, November 1992.

16. “Rigid subanalytic subsets of the plane,” Logic Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana IL, March 1991.

Service, Other Information

>Personnel Committee; member fall 2002-present, secretary spring 2003-present. This elected standing committee is responsible for approving faculty employment applications, and, in consultation with the department chair, for annual evaluations of each probationary faculty member’s progress to tenure, among other tasks.

>Alternate Faculty Senator; fall 2002-present.

>ECU Chapter, American Association of University Professors; member fall 2001-present, chapter president fall 2003-present.

>Unit Evaluation Committee; chair fall 1999-spring 2002, secretary fall 2002-present. This elected standing committee is responsible for producing the department’s Five Year Unit Evaluation and for reviewing the department’s Code of Operation, among other tasks.

>College Algebra Committee; chair fall 1999-fall 2002 (except during spring 2002). This appointed committee is responsible for tasks relating to MATH 1065, a course with one of the university’s highest enrollments. Those tasks range from textbook selection, to creating and reviewing the syllabus, to creating the common final examination.

>NC Science Olympiad; event leader for “Metric Mastery” in the region 2 (ECU) tournament, January 2001. Responsibilities included design of event and evaluation instrument, set-up of event and supervision of approximately 30 middle-grades contestants and volunteers, and evaluating the teams,

>ECU Middle Math curriculum development team; senior personnel fall 1998-spring 2000. This NSF-funded project developed a new curriculum with the goal of improving the preparation of middle-grades mathematics teachers. In December, 2000, it was among the first winners in the National Awards Program for Effective Teacher Preparation, U.S. Department of Education.

>ECU Undergraduate Chapter, North Carolina Student Rural Health Coalition; founding faculty advisor, spring 1998-present. This student organization is responsible, in conjunction with the Hobgood Citizens’ Group, for a free health clinic in the town of Hobgood, Halifax Co. The clinic serves a predominantly African-American community. My responsibilities include recruitment of student members and of professional health care providers, organizing presentations to the group, and developing undergraduate research projects in statistical analysis of clinic data.

>Ledonia Wright Multicultural Center; mathematics tutor fall 1996-present. Co-founder of the free Math Tutoring program. Recipient of Distinguished Service Awards in 1997 and in 1998.

>Other information available on request.