Celebrating exceptional teaching at UNCA
past, present, and future.

This year’s speaker is Dr. Thomas Banchoff from Brown University who has done extensive research on four-dimensional geometry and was advisor to the recent movie, Flatland, an animated film inspired by Edwin A. Abbott’s classic novel set in a world of only two dimensions inhabited by sentient geometrical shapes. Dr. Banchoff is a poineer in mathematical visualisation, a gifted teacher, and an award winning scholor. He received his Ph. D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkley in 1964 and has been a professor of distinction at Brown university since 1967. He has published numerous articles on mathematics and the teaching of mathematics. Just two of his many awards are the MAA National Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, 1996 and the NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholar, 2004