Fred Cohen

Professor

Current courses

UR Mathematics Seminars

• Topology Seminar
• Number Theory Seminar

Research Interests

My research interests are mainly in topology with connections to other areas such as
• classical homotopy theory,
• braid groups,
• configuration spaces,
• modular forms as the cohomology of certain configuration spaces, and
• cohomology of groups.

Graduate Students, current, and past

• Daniel Waggoner, 1985, Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta,
• Shiu-Chun Wong, 1991, Zechiang University, Hangchou. Email: scwong@math.zju.edu.cn
• Ran Levi 1993,University of Aberdeen
• Dai Tamaki 1993, Shinshu University, Japan
• Jie Wu 1995, National University of Singapore
• Miguel Xicotencatl 1997, Centro de Investigacion, Mexico City
• Jeff Wang, 1997, Industry, Email: Jeff.Wang@REQUISITE.com
• Takeshi Sato, 2000, Email: Takeshi_Sato@urgrad.rochester.edu
• Maria Voloshina 2003, California State University at Fresno

Current Editorial Boards

• Forum Mathematicum
• Algebraic and Geometric Topology

Recent preprints

Combinatorial Group Theory In Homotopy Theory I.

Loop Spaces Of Configuration Spaces, Braid-Like Groups, And Knots.

On Loop Spaces Of Configuration Spaces.

On the homotopy type of infinite stunted projective spaces.

On Genus One Mapping Class Groups, Function Spaces, and Modular Forms.

Mapping Class Groups and Function Spaces.

Combinatorial Models for Iterated Loop Spaces.

On Orbit Configuration Spaces associated to the Gaussian Integers: Homotopy Groups, and Homology Groups.

Korea.12.February.2004