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Dave Auckly earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and then held a postdoctorial position at UT Austin followed by an NSF postdoc at UC Berkeley. He then moved to Kansas State University before taking the Associate Director position at MSRI. His research interests cover a broad range of geometry/topology and overlap with PDE, mathematical physics and algebraic geometry. See his MATH PAPERS

He has been very involved in many special educational programs. For example, he helped incorporate mathematics into a residential college at the University of Michigan, and created a unique `Brainstorming and Barnstorming' program at KSU.

He lights up like the Vegas strip when he talks about mathematics. Dave has directed around 30 undergraduate and graduate level research projects and he has been recognized with several teaching awards.

In addition to mathematics, Dave enjoys being silly with his wife and two little children. He also enjoys any time that he can spend in the mountains. More pictures can be found on the web.

If you have any questions about MSRI, especially outreach activities, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Visitors are always welcome.

David Auckly

Associate Director

Office Phone: 510-642-4745
Fax: 510-642-8609
e-mail: auckly AT-SYMBOL-HERE msri.org
Office address:
The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

17 Gauss Way
Berkeley, CA 94720-5070

Home Phone: 510-540-0906
Home address:
1420 Grizzly Peak Blvd.
Berkeley, CA 94708

Math Papers

Here are my math papers. If you would like a hard copy of one, just send me an e-mail.

The Pontrjagin-Hopf invariants for Sobolev maps , (with L. Kapitanski), Commun. Contemp. Math. , Vol 12:1, (2010) 121-181
Introduction to the Gopakumar-Vafa large $N$ duality , (with S. Koshkin), Geometry & Topology Monographs 8 (2006) 195–456.
The number of smooth 4-manifolds with a fixed complexity, International Mathematics Research Notices, Vol. 2007, Article ID rnm054, (2007) 19 pages.
The interaction of finite-type and Gromov-Witten invariants at the Banff International Research Station (2003), (D Auckly and J Bryan ed) Geometry and Topology Monographs Vol 8
Geometry and analysis in non-linear sigma models, (with L. Kapitanski and M. Speight), St.-Petersburg Mathematical Journal, Vol 18:1 (2006) 1-31
Fermionic quantization and configuration spaces for the Skyrme and Faddeev-Hopf models, (with M. Speight), Commun. Math Phys., Vol 263, (2006) 173-216
Analysis of S^2 valued maps and Faddeev's model, (with L. Kapitanski, It appears as "Analysis of the Faddeev Model" on the arxiv), Commun. Math Phys., Vol 256:3, (2005) 611-620
Solving the quartic with a pencil, American Mathematics Monthly 114 (2007), 29-39.
Topologically knoted Lagrangians in simply connected four manifolds, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol 133 (2005) pp 885-889.
Holonomy and Skyrme's model, (with L. Kapitanski), Commun. Math Phys., Vol 240 (2003) pp 97-122.
On the lambda-equations for matching control laws, (with L. Kapitanski), SIAM J. Control Optim,Vol 41, no. 5 (2002) pp. 1372--1388
(Review of) 4-manifolds and Kirby calculus, Bull. of AMS, Vol 38 (2001) pp 229-234.
Matching and digital control implementation for underactuated systems, (with F. Andreev, L. Kapitanski, A. Kelkar, and W. White), Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, (2000) pp 3934-3938. inverted pendulum cart video plus three inverted hydaulic pendulum videos
Matching control laws for a ball and beam system, (with F. Andreev, L. Kapitanski, A. Kelkar, and W. White), Proc. IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for nonlinear control, Princeton, NJ, (2000) pp. 161-162.
Matching, linear systems, and the ball and beam, (with F. Andreev, S. Gosavi, L. Kapitanski, A. Kelkar, and W. White), Automatica Math. J. 38, no. 12 (2002), 2147-2152. The first posted version (more index computations), the ball and beam the same picture in eps format
Mathematical problems in the control of underactuated systems (with L. Kapitanski), CRM Proceedings and Lecture Notes , Vol 27 (2000), 41-52.
Families of four dimensional manifolds that become mutually diffeomorphic after one stabilization, Topology and its Applications, Vol 127 (2003), pp. 277-298.
Control of Nonlinear Underactuated Systems (with L. Kapitanski and W. White), Comm. Pure Appl. Math., Vol 53 (2000), pp. 354-369.
A topological method to compute spectral flow, Kyungpook Math. J. 38, no. 1 (1998), 181-203. See A better .pdf copy
Homotopy K3 surfaces and gluing results in Seiberg-Witten theory, Volume 37 of Research Institute of Mathematics: Global Alalysis research center. Seoul National University.
The Thurston norm and 3-dimensional Seiberg-Witten theory,, Osaka J. Math. 33 (1996), 737-750.
Surgery, Knots and the Seiberg-Witten Equations: Lectures for the 1995 TGRCIW, Proceedings of the TGRC-KOSEF 6 (1995), 1-70.
Surgery numbers of 3-manifolds: a hyperbolic example, in Geometric Topology: Georgia International Topology Conference, August 2-13, 1993, 21-34.
An irreducible homology sphere which is not Dehn surgery on any knot, This is my first preprint on this result.
A family of M\"obius invariant 2-knot energies, (with L. Sadun), in Geometric Topology: Georgia International Topology Conference, August 2-13, 1993, 235-258.
Totally real origami and impossible paper folding (with John Cleveland), American Mathematics Monthly 102 (1995), 215-226.
Topological methods to compute Chern-Simons invariants, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 115 (1994), 229-251.
Chern-Simons invariants of 3-manifolds which fiber over S^1, International J. Math., vol. 5, no. 2 (1994), 179-188.
Computing secondary and spectral invariants, dissertation, University of Michigan, 1991.