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Biography
Michael John Dorff is a mathematician at Brigham Young University known for his work in undergraduate research, popularizing mathematics, and harmonic mappings.
Life and career
Dorff taught high school for four years after receiving his BA in Mathematics Education. He received his MS from University of New Hampshire followed by a Ph.D. from University of Kentucky in 1997. He taught at University of Missouri-Rolla until he was hired by Brigham Young University in 2000.
Dorff is the founder of the NSF-funded Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics and the co-founder of the NSF-funded PIC Math program.
Awards and honors
From 2005 to 2006, Dorff was a Fulbright scholar in Poland.
In 2009, Dorff received the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.
In 2012, Dorff became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Selected publications
- Dorff, Michael; Nowak, Maria. Landau's theorem for planar harmonic mappings. Comput. Methods Funct. Theory 4 (2004), no. 1, 151–158.
- Dorff, Michael. Convolutions of planar harmonic convex mappings. Complex Variables Theory Appl. 45 (2001), no. 3, 263–271.
- Dorff, Michael; Nowak, Maria; Wołoszkiewicz, Magdalena. Convolutions of harmonic convex mappings. Complex Var. Elliptic Equ. 57 (2012), no. 5, 489–503.