Lawrence Downey
Assistant Professor
Dr. Downey obtained his Ph.D. in pure mathematics in 2001 at Kent State University. His areas of research are Functional Analysis and Operator Theory and Digital Image Forensics. Besides publications, he has also written software in the form of a graphical user interface (Atom 2.0) which is used to find edits in digital images. He serves as an expert witness in this field, having testified in a case for Harvard University. Besides researching and teaching mathematics, he is also a fine art nature photographer and an avid outdoorsman.
About Dr. Downey
- Ph.D. Pure Mathematics, Kent State University, 2001
- B.S. Mathematics, Penn State University, 1993
- Functional Analysis and Operator Theory
- Image Forensics
- Develop new algorithms to detect forgeries in digital images
- A generalization of the notion of convexity for sets in the plan
- Downey,L, “A Fundamental Property of Bilinear Operators”, MISSOURI J. OF MATH. SCI., VOL. 32, NO. 2, (2020).
- Downey,L, “An Algorithm to Detect Similarity in Digital Images Under Extreme Cases of Corruption and Low Variance; The Atom Approach”, 32nd Proceedings of The Pennsylvania Association of Computer and Information Science Educators, March 2017.
- Presentation on “The Mathematics of Snowflakes”, February 2, 2023 Warren County School District.