Robert Niemeyer

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Robert Niemeyer

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

Mathematics & Statistics

Office Hours

Fall 2026:

Tuesday 10am-2pm or by appointment

Biography

I received my BS, MS and PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Riverside. My first postdoctoral fellowship was an NSF MCTP (Mentoring through Critical Transition Points) postdoctoral fellowship at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. From there, my wife and I moved to Orono, Maine, where I completed a second visiting position at the University of Maine. While we enjoyed the beauty of the North East, we migrated south to Texas for two years where I held a tenure-track position at the University of the Incarnate Word. Fate brought us to MSU Denver where we now find ourselves hiking, eating and sipping many delicious teas and lattes.

Research Interests

    My research is quite varied, but my published works have mostly focused on billiards on fractal tables and their associated fractal translation surfaces. We are mostly interested in understanding the geometry and topology of these structures and determining the dynamical properties of the flow on the surface. Such dynamical properties can be investigated more efficiently by analyzing the corresponding fractal interval exchange transformation.

    Other research interests have centered on the presence of fractal structures in sociological settings. We are interested in determining 1) correlations between fractal dimensions of cities (i.e., power laws describing how certain aspects scale up with the city) and the socio-economic state of the city and 2) policies that can be instituted that result in positive economic growth, thereby bringing cities out of devastating poverty traps.

    In the past year, as a result of the pandemic, I have become much more interested in OER software development and delivering content in lighter forms so that students with slow internet connection can still participate in an equitable fashion.

Teaching Interests

    I have a broad interest in what I teach. I love teaching the various flavors and levels of calculus and look forward to teaching a variety of courses at MSU Denver. I want to create a number of interdisciplinary courses all focused around fractal geometry and dynamical systems, these being the languages in which Nature is speaking to us.

Education

PhD in Mathematics

University of California, Riverside

MS in Mathematics

University of California, Riverside

BS in Mathematics

University of California, Riverside

Personal Website

https://sites.msudenver.edu/niemeye1

Published Works

    Niemeyer, G. R. . WIVL+ --- Web-based Interactive Video Lessons. , https://youtu.be/onlweLwq_08 Niemeyer, E. R., Proctor, R. K., Schwartz, J., Niemeyer, G. R. . Are Most Published Criminological Research Findings Wrong? Taking Stock of Criminological Research using a Bayesian Simulation Approach. (in press). International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminologyhttps://osf.io/mhv8f/. Bradley, M. D., D'Alessio, D., Khalil, A., Niemeyer, R., Ossanna, E., Tanenbaum, B. A., Toner, C. B. (2019). On the relative frequency of residue classes in Pascal's Triangle modulo a prime. Fractals (World Scientific), 27(06). https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218348X19500981.