Welcome to Jim Stasheff's Home Page!

I am an emeritus faculty member with the Mathematics Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The background of this page displays the `alternate universe soccer ball' which governs a strictly commutative quasi-bialgebra.

A rotatable version of the 3D associahedron can be viewed here.

A review of my career and interests has been written by John McCleary.

• About Jim Stasheff

In Spring 2001, I taught HNRS 006P, Section 1, a Freshman Seminar `Beyond the Third Dimension' and Math 130 `Topology'.

Here is the prospectus and syllabus for `Beyond the Third Dimension'

• `Beyond the Third Dimension'

Here is the prospectus for Cohomological Physics taught in Spring'99 (see also the Survey below):

• Cohomological Physics

Click on any of the following items for viewing:

• Publications of Jim Stasheff
• Homotopy algebra of open-closed strings
• Open-closed homotopy algebra in mathematical physics
• Homotopy algebras inspired by classical open-closed string field theory
• Talk at the Alanfest August, 2003
• Expanded version of the Alanfest talk
• Hartford-Luminy talk (a.k.a. operadchik.ps)
• Operad Pre-history
• Higher Homotopy Conference
• Homological Reduction of Constrained Poisson Algebra
• Ascona talk
• Secret Homological Algebra of Batalin-Vilkovisky
• Boardman's Cherry Trees and String Theory
• Poisson homotopy algebra - Alanfest August 2003
• Survey of Cohomological Physics
• Graduate Student at Princeton in the late 50's
• Tensors with intrinsic meaning
• An Odessa Threesome
• Easter card (joke)
• Prayer for the Stressed

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  • The FRONT at UCDavis to the Math Archive
  For comments/suggestions about this page, mail: jds@math.unc.edu