Dr. Denny Gulick

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Job title: Professor of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park
Bio summary: Denny Gulick (with formal name Sidney L. Gulick, 3d) is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland. He graduated from Oberlin College with a major in mathematics and a substantial involvement in the Conservatory of Music. Then he earned an M.A. and PhD in mathematics at Yale University. After a 2-year Instructorship at the University of Pennsylvania he began teaching at the University of Maryland, and rose through the ranks to Full Professor of Mathematics. His field originally was functional analysis, but more recently he has enjoyed teaching mathematical chaos and fractals, and has been involved in issues of education in mathematics at the college level. Several times during his 50-years at the University of Maryland he has been Undergraduate Chair of Mathematics, and has also had the duty of scheduling the courses for the 90 departmental faculty members. He has had several funded projects in mathematics; the most recent is a project to make the all-important junior-senior Advanced Calculus course more successful for math majors. Also, for 8 years he led a one-week summer Maryland Mathematics Institute for local high school teachers. He has authored and co-authored several textbooks, most notably a calculus book (co-authored with Robert Ellis), which is in its 6th edition, and a textbook on chaos and fractals. In 1994 he and Judy Ackerman organized the Statewide Mathematics Group (SMG), which he has led since its inception.