Silvio Levy Title: Senior Technical Staff Dates: Since February 1988 Phone: (510) 524-5188 E-mail: levy@geom.umn.edu Personal Homepage: http://www.geom.umn.edu/about/people/home/levy-home.html

Activities at the Geometry Center

• Direction (with Delle Maxwell and Tamara Munzner) of the video Outside In
• Editing and writing of mathematical books and articles
• Research in computer graphics and combinatorial group theory
• Computer implementation of mathematical algorithms due to Thurston
• Programming support for visitors
• TeX macro development

Background

In 1988 he became half the staff of the nascent Geometry Supercomputer Project, which later grew into the Geometry Center, and he has been with the Center since.

Silvio's chief professional goal is to further the communication of mathematics, by both traditional and novel means.

Professional Experience

Employment

• Jan 1995 -- present, Consultant (part-time)
  Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

• Jan 1995 -- present, Senior Technical Staff (part-time)
  Geometry Center, University of Minnesota

• Dec 1993 to Dec 1994, Technical Director
  Geometry Center, University of Minnesota

• Feb 1988 to Dec 1993, Senior Technical Staff
  Geometry Center, University of Minnesota

• Feb 1986 to Jan 1988, Research Associate
  Princeton University

Editorial activities

• Editor of the MSRI Book Series since February 1995.
• Editor of Experimental Mathematics since its foundation in 1991.
• Editor of The Mathematica Journal, from 1989 to 1991.

Selected Publications

• Making Waves (an introduction to differential topology designed to accompany Outside In)
• A Beginner's Book of TeX (with Raymond Seroul), Springer.
• The CWEB System of Literate Programming (with Don Knuth), Addison-Wesley.
• Word Processing in Groups (with David Epstein and others), Jones and Bartlett.
• ``On the statistical-mechanical foundation of the ubiquity of Lévy distributions in nature'', with C. Tsallis et al., to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.
• ``Automatic Generation of Hyperbolic Tilings'', Leonardo 25:349-354 (1992).
• ``Contour Tracing by Piecewise Linear Approximations,'' with D. Dobkin, W. Thurston and A. Wilks, ACM Transactions on Graphics (1990).

Invited Talks

• Princeton University
• Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton)
• City University, NY
• Boston University
• University of Massachussetts at Amherst
• University of Illinois at Champaign
• IMPA
• Conference Talks given at national or international meetings: SIAM, TeX User's Group, ISIS-Symmetry, Mathematica, European Congress of Mathematics (Athens)

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