Stanley S. Chang

Stanley S. Chang is a professor of mathematics at Wellesley College and a member of the faculty since 2001. Professor Chang teaches a wide variety of classes, ranging from calculus to independent study courses on graduate-level topics. His own research interests focus on differential geometry and topology, in particular the curvature and rigidity properties of noncompact manifolds.

Professor Chang received his B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991 with a concentration on pure mathematics and music. He then attended Trinity College, Cambridge, on a British Marshall Scholarship, where he received a second B.A. in mathematics in 1993. Returning to America, he then attended the University of Chicago, where he received his S.M. degree in 1994 and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1999 under the direction of Shmuel Weinberger. Before coming to Wellesley, Dr. Chang was a G.C. Evans Postdoctoral Instructor of Mathematics at Rice University.

The author of numerous articles in journals of differential geometry and topology, Professor Chang is the recipient of a NSF Research Grant for the topic of noncommutative geometry. In addition to his work on coarse obstructions to positive scalar curvature metrics in noncompact arithmetic manifolds, he also conducts research in topics of K-theory, L-theory, and homotopy invariants. Most recently he has become interested in the relationship between various types of curvature properties shared by smooth and combinatorial spaces.

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Profile last updated: 8/06