Marwan M. Awartani

Associate Professor in Topology
E-mail: marwan@math.birzeit.edu
Ph.D. "Topology" 1980. Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. "Classification of discontinuitiesof real functions".
M.Sc. "Topology" 1978. Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
B.Sc. "Mathematics" 1973. American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Fields of Interest:

• Geometric topology
• Dynamical systems
• Continua Theory
• Mathematics Education

Current Research Projects:

• Whitney maps on hyperspaces.
• Existence of n-means on various classes of continua
• Rigidity of continua.

Publications:

• Awartani, M. And Khabbaz, S. (1980). On almost continuous functions. Proceedings, of the Texas Topology Symposium (1980), 221-228.
• Awartani, M. And Khabbaz, S. (1981). Classification of Discontinuities. The winter meeting of the American Mathematical Society, San Prancisco, Cal. (1981). Notices AMS, Abstract 783-55-28.
• Awartani, M. (1984). Graphs of almost continuous functions and compactifications of 1R and 1N. Annual Topology Conference, Alabama, Abstract.
• Awartani, M. (1984). Querries. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, No. 236, p 631.
• Awartani, M. (1984). Compactification of the Ray with the Arc as ramainder. Topology Proceedings, 9, (2) 201-215.
• Awartani, M. (1986). On the topology of graphs of discontinuous functions of the unit interval. Damascus University Journal, 2(5) 37-47.
• Awartani, M. (1986). The fixed remainder property for self homeomorphisms of Elsa continua. Topology Proceedings, 11(1) 225-238.
• Awartani, M. and Henderson, D. (1987). Spaces of geodesic triangulations of the sphere. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 304(2) 721-732.
• Awartani, M. and Gray, M. (1989). Cultural influence on sex differentials in mathematics aptitude and achievement. Int. J. Math. Educ. In Science and Technology, 20, 317-320.
• Awartani, M. (1989). An uncountable collection of pairwise incomparable Elsa continua. Proc. Of the 23rd Annual topology Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1989.
• Awartani, M. (1991). Open images of compactifications of the ray. Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 43, 303-306.
• Awartani, M. (1993). Whitney maps on hyperspaces of skew compactifications. Questions and Answers in General Topology, Vol. 2, No. 1 61-67.
• Awartani, M. (1993). An uncountable collection of mutually incomparable chaimable continua. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 118 No. 1. 239-245.
• Awartani, M. and Henderson, D.(1993). Compactifications of the Ray Admit no n-mean. Pro. Amer. Math. Soc.
• Awartani, M. (1993). Whitney Maps Hyperspaces of Skew Spaces. Proc. of the First Annual Conference of the Palestinian Society of Mathematical Sciences, Birzeit, June 16-18, 1993, P15, page 19.