Bogdan SUCEAVĂ

Primary academic affiliation: Professor, Department of Mathematics, California State University at Fullerton

Fields of interest/specialization: differential geometry, with focus on Riemannian geometry and the geometry of submanifolds; metric geometry; history of scientific ideas.

Awards and recognitions:

• Co-author of the paper Eclectic illuminism: applications of affine geometry, (with Adam Glesser, Matt Rathbun, and Isabel Marie Serrano), College Math. J. 50 (2019), no. 2, 82–92. Recipient of the 2020 Polya Award of the Mathematical Association of America.
• L. Donald Shields Excellence in Scholarship and Creativity Award, California State University, Fullerton, 2023.
• Member of the Department presented by the American Mathematical Society with the 2022 Award for Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference
• Medal of Honor of the Romanian Society for Mathematical Sciences, 2020

• The spread of the shape operator as a curvature invariant for a smooth hypersurface, Houston J. Math., 49 (2023), pp. 567-577.
• The amalgamatic curvature and the orthocurvatures of three dimensional hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space. Publicationes Mathematicae, Debrecen, 87 (2015), no. 1-2, 35–46.
• A Medieval Mystery: Nicole Oresme’s Concept of Curvitas, (with  Isabel Marie Serrano) Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol 62, 2015, pp.1030-1034. Included in Best Writings on Mathematics 2016, Editor M. Pitici, Princeton University Press, 2017.
• On Strongly Minimal Kähler Surfaces in C^3 and the Equality scal(p) = 4 inf sec(π^r), Results in Mathematics, 68 (2015), no. 1-2, 45–69.
• Revisiting the foundations of Barbilian’s metrization procedure (with Wladimir G. Boskoff and Marian G. Ciucă), Differential Geometry and Its Applications, 29 (2011), 577-589.
• Spacelike minimal surfaces of constant curvature in pseudo-hyperbolic 4-space H^4_2(-1) (with Bang-Yen Chen), Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, 15 (2011), 523-541.
• Distances generated by Barbilian’s metrization procedure by oscillation of sublogarithmic functions, Houston Journal of Mathematics, 37 (2011), 147-159.