Joel Hass is an American mathematician and a professor of mathematics and at the

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UC Davis, retrieved 2012-07-03. His work focuses on geometric and topological problems in dimension 3.

Biography

Hass received his

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from the

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in 1981 under the supervision of

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. He joined the Davis faculty in 1988. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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. From 2010 to 2014 he served as the chair of the UC Davis mathematics department.

Research contributions

Hass is known for proving the equal-volume special case of the

double bubble conjecture In the mathematical theory of minimal surfaces, the double bubble theorem states that the shape that encloses and separates two given volumes and has the minimum possible surface area is a ''standard double bubble'': three spherical surfaces meet ...

, for proving that the

unknotting problem In mathematics, the unknotting problem is the problem of algorithmically recognizing the unknot, given some representation of a knot, e.g., a knot diagram. There are several types of unknotting algorithms. A major unresolved challenge is to d ...

is in NP, and for giving an exponential bound on the number of

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s needed to reduce the

unknot In the mathematical theory of knots, the unknot, not knot, or trivial knot, is the least knotted of all knots. Intuitively, the unknot is a closed loop of rope without a knot tied into it, unknotted. To a knot theorist, an unknot is any embe ...

to a circle.

Selected publications

;Research papers *. *. *. *. ;Books *. *. 2004: Student Solutions Manual, Maurice D. Weir, Joel Hass, George B. Thomas, Frank R Giordano

References

External links

Home page at UC DavisGoogle scholar profile
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