Heidi Burgiel, Ph.D.

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Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
The University of Illinois at Chicago (M/C 249)
851 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7045
USA

phone: (312) 413-3745
fax: (312) 996-1491

burgiel@math.uic.edu


Curriculum Vitae



I am the systems administrator and educational technology consultant in the department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This means that I spend most of my time making computers work, some time teaching teachers to teach using computers, and some time helping design course materials like our Calculus III lab web pages for our courses. With whatever time I have left over, I try to keep up with developments in the field of classical geometry and work on the book about repeating patterns on surfaces that I'm writing with John Conway and Chaim Goodman-Strauss.

Courses I've developed and taught here at UIC include Java for high school teachers, Microcomputers in Elementary School Mathematics, and (my favorite) Logo for high school teachers.

Before I came here, I had a two year postdoctoral position at The Geometry Center * in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There I helped a summer program for high school teachers evolve into a University of Minnesota course called Technology in the Geometry Classroom. I also helped in the first year of implementation of The University of Minnesota Calculus Initiative, wrote and published various papers on geometry and combinatorics and used the equipment at the Geometry Center to make video clips describing geometric objects such as the net 10_3.

As a graduate student at the University of Washington, I wrote my doctoral thesis on realizing abstract regular polyhedra, was a TA in another Calculus III computer lab, assisted in the computer labs at the Park City Regional Geometry Institute (now the IAS/Park City Math Institute) and helped found the Northwest Mathematics Interaction program.

For more goodies, see my homepage of nifty places on the World Wide Web.