 Emily B. Dryden

Emily B. Dryden studies spectral geometry: the relationship between geometric spaces and spectra of differential operators. Her Bucknell profile identifies this research specialization.^[ref]

With Alexander Strohmaier, she proved an orbisurface version of Huber's theorem. For compact orientable hyperbolic orbisurfaces, the Laplacian spectrum determines both closed-geodesic lengths and singular-point orders with multiplicities; the corresponding geometric data also determine the spectrum. Thus spectral information records some singular geometry as well as ordinary closed paths.^[ref]