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Stacey Harris, Ph.D.

Professor

Education

  • PhD in Mathematics, 1979, University of Chicago
  • MS in Mathematics, 1974, University of Chicago
  • BS in Pure Mathematics, 1973, Case Western Reserve University

Practice Areas

Professor Harris's field is differential geometry, mostly as relating to general relativity.  Harris studies global structures of spacetimes, particularly the construction known as the Causal Boundary (which creates, in a universal manner, a structure that allows for understanding the causality behavior of a spacetime model in the large).

Harris also spent some time contributing to a study of how differential geometry can be used to compare 2- and 3-dimensional physical models (such as medical images of a human body at two different times).

  • University of Missouri, 1979--1980
  • Brown University, 1980--1983
  • on leave at University of Bonn and Planck Institute for Mathematics, 1981--1982
  • Oregon State University, 1983--1989
  • Coastal Carolina College, 1989--1990
  • Saint Louis University, 1990--present
  • on leave at Australian National University, fall, 1996
  • on leave at University of Missouri, spring, 2004
  • on leave at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, spring, 2011
  • President of SLU Chapter of AAUP, 2012--present
  • On leave at SLU, fall, 2019

Research Interests

Differential Geometry, General Relativity