Barry Minemyer

Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Digital Forensics
Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg
212 Ben Franklin Hall
400 E. Second St.
Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301, USA

E-mail: bminemyer@commonwealthu.edu
Office: 236 Ben Franklin Hall
Phone: (570) 389-4103


Academic Background

I am a Professor of Mathematics at Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg (formerly Bloomsburg University). I have been in Bloomsburg since 2017.

From Fall 2014 through Spring 2017 I was a Ross Visiting Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at The Ohio State University.
My postdoctoral mentors were Jean-François Lafont and Michael Davis.

I spent spent the 2013-2014 academic year as an Assistant Professor at Alfred University.

I earned my Ph. D. at Binghamton University in the summer of 2013 under the supervision of Pedro Ontaneda.

I received my Bachelor's degree in Mathematics in 2007 from Penn State Altoona where I was a member of the Men's Basketball team (I am still in the record books here at a few places).



My curriculum vitae can be found here (CV last updated September 2025)



Upcoming Travel

  • March 11-13, 2026: Speaking in the Geometric Topology session at the 2026 Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference held at UAB.

  • April 23, 2026: Speaking in the Student Mathematics Colloquium at Bucknell University.

  • July 13-17, 2026: Co-organizing, along with Benjamin Linowitz and Ben McReynolds, a Geometric Group Theory session at the 40th Summer Conference on Topology and Its Applications at the University of Split, Croatia.


    Research

    Papers in Preparation:

  • Codimension two complements in hyperbolic products (joint with H. Cho, J.F. Lafont, and N. Miller)


    Submitted papers:

  • An explicit description of the Kahler-Einstein metrics of Guenancia-Hamenstadt (joint with J.F. Lafont)
    Available on arXiv as a preprint.

  • Kahler manifolds with an almost 1/4-pinched metric
    Available on arXiv as a preprint.


    Published and Accepted papers:

  • On ratios of Chern numbes for complex hyperbolic branched covers
    Available on arXiv as a preprint. To appear in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.

  • High dimensional hyperbolic Coxeter groups that virtually fiber (joint with J.F. Lafont, G. Sorcar, M. Stover, and J. Wells)
    Available on arXiv as a preprint. Final version in Mathematische Annalen, 393 No. 3-4 (2025), 3083-3107.

  • Curvature operators on Kahler manifolds
    Available on arXiv as a preprint. Final version in Advances in Mathematics, 464 (2025), 110-142.

  • Warped product metrics on hyperbolic and complex hyperbolic manifolds
    Available on arXiv as a preprint. Final version in Algebraic and Geometric Topology, 25 No. 5 (2025), 2905-2932.

  • Synthetic geometry in hyperbolic simplices (joint with A. Clickard)
    Available on arXiv as a preprint. Final version in Involve, a Journal of Mathematics, 15-5 (2022), 885-906.

  • On the isometric embedding problem for length metric spaces
    Available on arXiv as a preprint. Final version in Journal of Topology and Analysis, 13 No. 4 (2021), 889-932.

  • Negatively curved codimension one distributions
    Available as a preprint. Final version in Topology Proceedings, 56 (2020), 111-124.

  • Filling triangulated surfaces (joint with R. Kowalick and J.F. Lafont)
    Available on arXiv as a preprint. Final version in Geometriae Dedicata, 202 (2019), 373-386. Here is a 'read only' version of the paper.

  • Real hyperbolic hyperplane complements in the complex hyperbolic plane
    Available on arXiv as a preprint. Final version in Advances in Mathematics, 338 (2018), 1038-1076.

  • Intrinsic geometry of a Euclidean simplex
    8 pages as a preprint. Final version in Topological Methods in Group Theory (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series), Vol. 451 (2018), 135-145.

  • Simplicial isometric embeddings of polyhedra
    Available on arXiv as a preprint. Final version in Moscow Mathematical Journal, 17 (2017) no. 1, 79-95.

  • Approximating continuous maps by isometries
    Available on arXiv as a preprint. Final version in New York Journal of Mathematics, 22 (2016), 741-753.

  • Isometric embeddings of pro-Euclidean spaces
    Available on arXiv as a preprint. Final version in Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces, 3 (2015), 317-324.

  • Isometric embeddings of polyhedra into Euclidean space
    Available on arXiv as a preprint. Final version in Journal of Topology and Analysis, 7 (2015), no. 4, 677-692.



    Here is a link to my Ph. D. thesis, titled "Isometric embeddings of polyhedra".

    Was awarded a 2025 AMS-Simons Research Enhancement Grant for Primarily Undergraduate Institution Faculty.

    Was awarded a 2016 AMS-Simons Travel Grant.


    Teaching

  • My undergraduate alma mater, Penn State Altoona, invited me back for a Career Day in March of 2024. I was interviewed as part of this program. One can get to know me a little bit and get a good sense of how I approach life from the three short clips from this interview, which you can see here.

  • I was incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to be the advisor and primary mentor for Andrew Clickard, who is currently in the Ph. D. program at Temple University. I also had the privilege to work with Zachary Norfolk as an undergraduate, who is currently in the Ph. D. program at Penn State.

  • I am currently a Co-PI on an NSF S-STEM Grant which provides scholarships and support incoming students with demonstrated financial need. More information about this program and these scholarships can be found here.

  • I was awarded the Joan and Fred Miller Distinguished Professor of Good Works faculty Fellowship from 2021-2024.



    *A special thanks to Jean-François Lafont, from whom I "borrowed" much of the html code for this website.