Welcome to my website! I am a lecturer at the University of Georgia, and my research focus is in geometric topology. Here's an old, non-current CV for basic information about me (as of July, 2015).
Trenton F. Schirmer
For Students
- Chapter 2 notes for Precalculus
If you are enrolled in my precalculus course, please print these notes up and bring them to class with you to fill out as I lecture. I expect the filled out notes to be useful when organizing your studying.
Research
- Research statement for non-experts
This is a out of date, but if you aren't a researcher in low-dimensional topology, this will give you the flavor of what I do. - New examples of tunnel number subadditivity
The better, published version is in Topology and its Applications - A lower bound on tunnel number degeneration
A revised version of this has been accepted for publication into Algebraic and Geometric Topology. When it appears you should read that version because it fixes some minor mistakes and has an improved exposition. - Classification of trisections and the Generalized Property R Conjecture
This is joint work with Jeffrey Meier and Alex Zupan, to appear in The Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. It's about trisections of 4-manifolds, first defined by Gay and Kirby. These results subsume earlier work of mine.
