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Christopher Tuffley

I'm a Lecturer in Mathematics in the Institute of Fundamental Sciences at Massey University, New Zealand. I received my PhD in 2003 from UC Berkeley under Rob Kirby, and my research interests are chiefly in topology. I was a lecturer at UC Davis for three years before coming to Massey, and have also spent five summers teaching at Canada/USA Mathcamp.

I was a member of the 1990 and 1991 New Zealand International Mathematical Olympiad teams, and since returning to New Zealand in 2007 I have become involved in the New Zealand Mathematical Olympiad programme. At present I am the team leader, attending the 2010 IMO in Astana, Kazakhstan and the 2011 IMO in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in this role.

Official home page
Publications and preprints
Slides from talks
The complete adventures of my cartoon character Sammy the Graduate Student
Fractals - some matlab code for drawing affine iterated function system fractals, like this fern, and Newton's method fractals, like this one of the sixth roots of unity.
The perils of topology; a puzzle I wrote for the 2005 Mathcamp puzzle hunt (answer is a word or phrase); an old picture and a more recent (but now still fairly old) one

Last modified 16th February 2012