Robert Ream obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2014. He also received an M.S. in mathematics and B.S. degrees in both math and physics from Utah State University. He arrived at Clark in 2019.
Professor Ream’s research area, broadly speaking is geometric analysis. Geometric analysts seek to use analytic tools to prove existence, or non-existence, of various geometric structures. In particular, he is interested in the existence of minimal surfaces which have minimal area for a given constraint. Concrete examples of minimal surfaces are soap films, which have least area of all surfaces with a fixed boundary. Robert is also interested in special Kähler metrics. He has taught a variety of courses at Clark, including Discrete Math, Honors Calculus, and Modern Algebra.