CURRICULUM VITAE Araceli Bonifant Office Address Mathematics Department, University of Rhode Island, 5 Lippitt Road Kingston, R.I., 02881. Phone number: (401) 874-4394 e-mail:
[email protected] Visa status: US citizen Education: Doctor of Philosophy: Mathematics. Centro de Investigaci´ony Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Polit´ecnicoNacional (CINVESTAV - IPN), Mexico, 1997. Dissertation Title : Degrees of nonlinearity in higher dimensional complex dynamics. Bachelor of Science: Physics and Mathematics. Escuela Superior de F´ısicay Matem´a- ticas del Instituto Polit´ecnicoNacional (ESFM-IPN), Mexico, 1989. Professional Positions: Associate Professor: Mathematics Department, University of Rhode Island, July 2010 - Present. Visiting Researcher: Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Math- ematics (ICERM). Special semester in \Complex and Arithmetic Dynamics." Febru- ary 12nd. - April 21st., 2012. Sabbatical year: Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Mathematics Department, Stony Brook University. Visiting Associate Professor September 2011 - August 31, 2012. Assistant Professor: Mathematics Department, University of Rhode Island, Septem- ber 2004 - June 2010. Lecturer: Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook, N.Y., September 2001 - August 2004. Researcher: Instituto de Matem´aticas, Universidad Nacional Aut´onomade M´exico (IMATE-UNAM) Cuernavaca, Mor. Mexico, September 1999 - August 2001. Visiting Assistant Professor: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 1998 - August 1999. Assistant Professor: Escuela Superior de F´ısicay Matem´aticasdel Instituto Polit´ecnico Nacional (ESFM-IPN) Mexico, September 1987 - December 1997. Visiting Scholar: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 1995 - June 1996, and February 1994 - June 1994. Research Interests: • Holomorphic Dynamical Systems • Several Complex Variables, Complex Analysis • Geometry, Topology • Education and Instruction in Mathematics 1 2 Papers and Publications: • Growth of degree for iterates of rational maps in several variables, (with J.