Geometric Topology at Boise State
The geometric topology group consists of Jens Harlander, Uwe Kaiser and Doug Bullock.
Jens Harlander's interests are combinatorial and geometric group theory with applications in knot theory and low dimensional topology. His is presently working on the Whitehead and Ribbon Disk Conjectures.
Uwe Kaiser's interests are the topology of manifolds, including embeddings, immersions and singularities of maps; in particular 3-dimensional topology: theory of knots and links, quantum topology; related homotopy theory and algebra. He is presently working on topological quantum field theories and categorification.
Doug Bullock is presently working on various projects in Education (Curriculum development).
The geometric topology group runs a seminar on different topics reflecting the interests of the topologists at Boise State University. All Graduate Students are welcome to participate in these activities.
During the last years Uwe Kaiser has organized Special Sessions at several regional AMS meetings, e.g. in 2006 a meeting on Floer homology and applications in Salt Lake City/UT (joint with Alexander Felshtyn), and in 2005 on the Algebraic Topology of Representation Varieties in Eugene/OR. He also organized a Special Session at the International AMS conference in Mainz and several International Topology Conferences in Germany. The geometric topology group also hosts in about every third year the Cascade Topology Seminar.
Graduate Courses related to our research group are MATH 505/506, MATH 511/512 and MATH 582. Lecture Notes on Differential Topology in pdf from a previous graduate course.
Thomas Glass recently finished his Master's thesis (Advisor Uwe Kaiser) on Tube Equivalence of Spanning Surfaces and Seifert Surfaces.
The geometric topology group consists of Jens Harlander, Uwe Kaiser and Doug Bullock.
Jens Harlander's interests are combinatorial and geometric group theory with applications in knot theory and low dimensional topology. His is presently working on the Whitehead and Ribbon Disk Conjectures.
Uwe Kaiser's interests are the topology of manifolds, including embeddings, immersions and singularities of maps; in particular 3-dimensional topology: theory of knots and links, quantum topology; related homotopy theory and algebra. He is presently working on topological quantum field theories and categorification.
Doug Bullock is presently working on various projects in Education (Curriculum development).
The geometric topology group runs a seminar on different topics reflecting the interests of the topologists at Boise State University. All Graduate Students are welcome to participate in these activities.
During the last years Uwe Kaiser has organized Special Sessions at several regional AMS meetings, e.g. in 2006 a meeting on Floer homology and applications in Salt Lake City/UT (joint with Alexander Felshtyn), and in 2005 on the Algebraic Topology of Representation Varieties in Eugene/OR. He also organized a Special Session at the International AMS conference in Mainz and several International Topology Conferences in Germany. The geometric topology group also hosts in about every third year the Cascade Topology Seminar.
Graduate Courses related to our research group are MATH 505/506, MATH 511/512 and MATH 582. Lecture Notes on Differential Topology in pdf from a previous graduate course.
Thomas Glass recently finished his Master's thesis (Advisor Uwe Kaiser) on Tube Equivalence of Spanning Surfaces and Seifert Surfaces.
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