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Seminar list for this semester.

Seminar list for Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007.

Permanent Faculty

Fred Cohen
Algebraic Topology specifically Homotopy Theory.
Cohomology of groups.
Braid groups, function spaces, simplicial groups, configuration spaces and interconnections.
John Harper
H-spaces, co-H-spaces, Lusternik-Schnirrelmann category and other topics in unstable homotopy theory.
Published books: Detailed Research Statement.
Jonathan Pakianathan
Group actions on complexes. Cohomology of groups. Lie groups and Lie algebras.
Hochschild cohomology of blocks and modular representations. Braid groups and Configuration Spaces.
Doug Ravenel
Algebraic topology specifically problems related to homotopy groups of spheres, the Adams-Novikov spectral sequence, and its connections with number theory. See Ravenel's research page for more details.Published books:

Emiritus Faculty

Joseph Neisendorfer
Rational homotopy theory. Unstable Homotopy Theory.
Published books:

Recent Postdoctoral Faculty that have moved

John Olsen
System Developer at Edlund A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Scott Bailey
Assistant Professor at Clayton State University.
Troy Winfree
Mathematician working for Boeing in Seattle.
Juan Ortiz-Navarro
Professor at Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayaguez.
Paul Pearson
Professor at Fort Lewis College.
Aaron Heap
Professor at SUNY Geneseo.
Ryan Budney
Associate Professor at University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Mike Jackson
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Grove City College.
Ethan Pribble
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, SUNY College at Old Westbury.
Inga Johnson
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Willamette University.

Current Graduate Students

Past Graduate Students

For information on grandstudents (there are some!),
see the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Jonathan Lopez (2010, Cohen) (Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Niagara University)
Sun Qiang (2009, Cohen) (Research Associate, Aetna Health.)
Andrew Salch (2007, Ravenel) (Wayne State University.)
Tao Jin (2008, Cohen) (Harvard University Economics Ph.D. program.)
Maria Voloshina Nogin (2003, Cohen) (California State University at Fresno.)
Takeshi Sato (2000, Cohen) (No information available)
Eva Culakova (1999, Harper) (BioStat Dept. at University of Rochester)
Jeff Wang (1997, Cohen) (Industry)
Miguel Xicotencatl (1997, Cohen) (Centro de Investigacion, Mexico City)
Jie Wu (1995, Cohen) (National University of Singapore)
Binhua Mao (1994, Ravenel) (No information available)
Jesus Gonzalez Espino Barros (1994, Gitler) (Centro de Investigación, Mexico City)
Octav Cornea (1993, Neisendorfer) (Université de Montréal)
Ran Levi (1993, Cohen) (University of Aberdeen)
Dai Tamaki (1993, Cohen) (Shinshu University, Japan)
Younggi Choi (1992, Ravenel) (National Seoul University, South Korea)
Janice Pearce (1992, Neisendorfer) (Berea College)
Shiu-chun Wong (1991, Cohen) (Zechiang University, Hangchou. Email: scwong (at) math.zju.edu.cn)
Marie Anna Maier (1987, Harper) (No information available)
Robert Thompson (1986, Ravenel) (Hunter College, CUNY)
Daniel Waggoner (1985, Cohen) (Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta)
Austin C. Pearlman (1985, Ravenel) (Deceased)
Judy Wathen (1982, Harper) (No information available)
Stephen A. Mitchell (1981, Ravenel) (University of Washington)
David J. Pengelley (1980, Ravenel) (New Mexico State University)
Daciberg Goncalves (1977, Harper) (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Laura Weiss (1973, Harper) (No information available)
Gerald Lieberman (1972, Harper) (No information available)

Recent Graduate Courses

Fall 2012 MTH 546: Cohomology of Groups.
Instructor: Pakianathan
Spring 2011 MTH 549: Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and their representations, Part II.
Instructor: Pakianathan
Fall 2010 MTH 549: Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and their representations, Part I.
Instructor: Pakianathan
Spring 2010 MTH 549: A solution to the Arf-Kervaire Invariant Problem.
Instructor: Ravenel
Spring 2010 MTH 591: Topics in Alg. Topology: Spectral Sequences and Characteristic Classes.
Instructor: Pakianathan
Fall 2009 MTH 549: Topological Automorphic Forms.
Instructor: Ravenel
Fall 2009 MTH 591: Topics in Alg. Topology: Vector Bundles and Characteristic Classes.
Instructor: Pakianathan
Spring 2007 MTH 443: Algebraic Topology.
Instructor: Cohen
Spring 2007 Topics course: MTH 549:Algebraic curves in algebraic topology
Instructor: Ravenel
Spring 2006 MTH 443: Algebraic Topology.
Instructor: Ravenel
Spring 2005 MTH 443: Algebraic Topology.
Instructor: Ravenel
Spring 2004 MTH 443: Algebraic Topology.
Instructor: Ravenel
Fall 2003 Topics course: MTH 549: Elliptic cohomology.
Instructor: Ravenel
Spring 2003 MTH 443: Algebraic Topology.
Instructor: Ravenel
Spring 2003 Topics course: Exponents in the homotopy groups of spheres.
Instructor: Neisendorfer
Fall 2002 Topics course: Introduction to classical techniques of homotopy theory.
Instructor: Cohen
Spring 2002 Topics course: Group cohomology and the descending central series Lie algebra.
Instructor: Cohen
Spring 2002 MTH 443: Algebraic Topology.
Instructor: Ravenel
Fall 2001 Topics course: Group cohomology, braid groups and mapping class groups.
Instructor: Cohen
Fall 2001 Topics course: MTH 549: Model Categories.
Instructor: Ravenel

Topology links

Hopf Archive
ArXiv
Don Davis' Topology page
Midwest Topology Seminar
List of webpages for some Algebraic Topologists