Alex Kasman

Alex Kasman received a PhD in mathematics from Boston University in 1995 and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Georgia in Athens, the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques in Montreal, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA. Since 1999, he has been a Professor of Mathematics at the College of Charleston.

His many research papers (see http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/#publications) have been published in mathematics, physics and biology journals and focus especially on the interface between mathematical physics and algebraic geometry.

In addition, as a "hobby", he writes and collects works of fiction that are explicitly mathematical. (See http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT for his database listing and reviewing hundreds of examples of "mathematical fiction".)

Alex believes that math research is important (and fun) but under-appreciated. He hopes that his own math research will lead to a greater understanding of the fundamental nature of the universe in the future, and that his fiction may help readers to better appreciate the importance of mathematics.