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Among his earliest contributions is his theorem that the Gieseking Manifold is the unique cusped Hyperbolic 3-manifold of smallest volume. The proof utilizes Horoball -packing arguments. Adams is known for his clever use of such arguments utilizing horoball patterns and his work would be used in the later proof by Cao and Meyerhoff that the smallest cusped orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds are precisely the Figure-eight Knot Complement and its sibling manifold. Adams is widely recognized as an expositor of mathematics to the general public. He is a popular speaker and is notorious for his "Mel Slugbate" talks, wherein he dresses up as Mel Slugbate, a Sleazy Real-estate Agent specializing in selling property in Hyperbolic Space . In addition, he is known for his involvement in SMALL, an undergraduate summer research program at Williams. In 1998, he received the Haimo Distinguished Teaching Award from the Mathematical Association Of America , awarded to teachers ""who have been widely recognized as extraordinarily successful and whose teaching effectiveness has been shown to have had an influence beyond their own institutions." SEE ALSO SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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