John A. Velling

Professor of Mathematics

Brooklyn College

 

 

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Welcome

This is the Brooklyn College homepage of John A. Velling, an associate professor of mathematics at Brooklyn College and member of the CUNY Graduate Center doctoral faculty. I am usually at Brooklyn College on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and at the Graduate Center on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

 

Access information

Mail:   Department of Mathematics

            Brooklyn College

            Brooklyn, New York 11210

Office: 1119d Ingersol Hall, located at the end of a small corridor off of the

             main hall on the first floor of Ingersol.

Tel:     (718) 951-5248 (office) It is often difficult to reach me by phone.

            (718) 951-5246 (secretary) You may always leave a message here.

Fax:     (718) 951-4674 at the Department of Mathematics, Brooklyn College

Email:   click here to contact me – jvelling@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Hours:  16:00-17:30 T, Th or by appointment

 

At the CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue), my office is #4307.  The telephone number is 212-8178553 or 8554.

 

Classes at Brooklyn College

 

You will find your syllabus, assignments and most course information at the class Blackboard site. Connect to Blackboard

 

Math 2.9 Precalculus
   

 

Math 3.3 Calculus I
   

 

Math 13 Ordinary Differential Equations
   

For further information about these courses, please contact me for access to our class Blackboard account.

Papers and research interests

My research interests have been focused on geometric function theory and its various components: complex analysis, differential geometry, ergodic theory and dynamical systems.

 

By clicking after the titles below you can download copies of my papers in PDF, DVI or PS format.

Mapping the disk to convex subregions

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Existence and uniqueness of complete constant mean curvature surfaces at infinity of H

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Harmonic Measure, Infinite Kernels, and Symmetrization

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Conformal irregularity for Denjoy diffeomorphisms of the 2-torus

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Notes on projective structures and Kleinian groups

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Degeneration of quasicircles: inner and outer radii of Teichm\"uller spaces

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A sufficient condition for Teichm\"{u}ller spaces to have smallest possible inner radii

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On inner radii of Teichm\"{u}ller spaces

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The action at infinity of conservative groups of hyperbolic motions need not have atoms

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The uniformization of rectangles, an exercise in Schwarz's lemma

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Recurrent Fuchsian groups whose Riemann surfaces have infinite dimensional spaces of bounded harmonic functions

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OPP development

 

Last updated 14 Nov 04