Background:

• Assoc. Prof. of Mathematics.                 2023--present.
          University of the Virgin Islands. 

• Asst. Prof. of Mathematics.                    2009--2023.
          Middle East Technical University,
          Northern Cyprus Campus.

• Research Asst. Prof. of Mathematics.   2005--2009.
          Purdue University.   

• Researcher. Max Planck, Bonn.               Fall 2006.

• Researcher. Mittag-Leffler Institute.       Spring 2006.

• PhD. Mathematics.                                     2005
          Brown University.

• BA.s Mathematics and Statistics.           1998
          Rice University.       

Research Interests:

• Algebraic topology; Category theory; Operads and cooperads; Lie coalgebras; Rational homotopy theory; Knot theory

Contact Information:

• Office:   RTPark 131, (AAS campus)

• Phone:  (340) 692-4227

• e-mail:  benjamin.walter@uvi.edu

Github Repository     Github Site

Selected Publications / Preprints           (arXiv list)

• Infinitesimal calculations in fundamental groups (w/ N. Gadish, A. Ozbek, D. Sinha)

• Lie algebra configuration pairing. 

• The left greedy Lie algebra basis and star graphs (w/ A. Shiri) Involve 9 (2016), no. 5, 783--795.

• Cooperads as symmetric sequences. Morfismos 17 (2013), no. 2, 71--100.

• (w/ D. Sinha) Lie coalgebras and rational homotopy theory II: Hopf invariants. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 365 No. 2 (Feb. 2013), pp.861-883.

• (w/ D. Sinha) Lie coalgebras and rational homotopy theory I: Graph coalgebras. Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Vol. 13 (2011), No. 2, pp.263-292.

• The configuration basis of a Lie algebra and its dual. (2010) -- later merged into lie algebra basis and star graphs2023-24 Fall