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PERSONAL DATA:

Address: Department of Mathematics Email address: s.staples@tcu.edu

TCU BOX 298900

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth TX 76129

EDUCATION:

B.S. in Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH, 1983

Ph. D. in Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1988

Dissertation Topics: BMO functions, domains with a local to global norm condition and the Poincare Inequality

Thesis advisor: Frederick W. Gehring

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2001- Director of Actuarial program at TCU

2000- Graduate Director, MAT program at TCU

1998- Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas Christian University

1995-98 Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas Christian University

1994-95 Visiting Research Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas Christian University

1992-94 Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Staten Island, CUNY

1989-92 R. H. Bing Instructor, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin

5/90-6/90 Visiting Scholar, Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden

1988-89 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Mathematics, Princeton, New Jersey

AWARDS:

1992 Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Texas at Austin

1987 University wide Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Michigan

1987-88 American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship,

1979-84 Horsbourgh Scholarship - four year full tuition scholarship to Case Western Reserve University

RESEARCH SUPPORT:

2000-01 "A Visualization and Hands-on Approach to Mathematics". A TCU Instructional Development Grant, with R. Doran

1993-94 PSC-CUNY Research Award, Grant 663468

1990-91 National Science Foundation, Grant DMS 9004251

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:

Lp-averaging domains and the Poincare Inequality, Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn., Series, A1 14, (1989), 103-127.

Maximal Functions, A¥-measures and quasiconformal maps, Proc. Amer. Math Soc., Vol 113, Number 3, (1991), 689-700.

Doubling Measures and Quasiconformal Maps, Comment. Math. Helv. 67 (1992), 119-128.

Higher Integrability of the Jacobian and Quasiconformal Maps, Mich. Math Journal, 40, (1993), 433-444.

Quasiconformal Maps and Poincare Domains, Joint with R. Hurri-Syrjanen, University of Helsinki refereed preprint series, Preprint 45, (1993).

Quasiconformal Maps and Poincare Domains, joint with R. Hurri-Syrjanen, Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 26, No. 4, (Fall 1996), 1395-1423.

"Quasisymmetrically Thick Sets", jointly with Lesley A. Ward, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, 23, (1998), 151-168.

"A Quasiconformal Analogue of Brennan's Conjecture", jointly with R. Hurri-Syrjanen, Complex Variables: Theory and Application., 35, (1998), pp. 27-32.

Maximizing the Arclength in the Cannonball Problem, jointly with Z. Dou, The College Mathematics Journal, 30, No. 1, (1999), pp . 44-45.

Patterns jumping out of a simple checker puzzle, , Mathematics Teacher, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Focus Issue on Patterns, 98, No. 4, (2004), pp . 224-227.

Lp-averaging domains in Homogeneous spaces, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 317, No. 4, (2006), pp . 550-564.

“L^p-Averaging domains: From Euclidean spaces to homogeneous spaces” to appear in The Conference Proceedings of “The Conference on Differential and Difference Equations and Applications”

EDITORSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Assistant Editor for the American Mathematical Monthly 2001-present

Assistant Editor for the Problems Section in the Mathematics Magazine 1995-2000

Reviewer for The Mathematical Reviews

Reviewer for Zentralblatt

Referee for Proceedings of the American Society

Referee for Complex Variables

Referee for Annales Acadamiae Scientiarum Fennicae

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Member of the American Mathematical Society

Member of the Mathematics Association of America

Member of the Association of Women in Mathematics

Member of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Member of Tau Beta Pi, (An Engineering/Science/Mathematics Honor Society),

Member of Mortar Board and past president of the CWRU Chapter