Topology Group

Seminars

The seminars meet Mondays 5-6 p.m. in Hylan 1106A.

Permanent Faculty

Emeritus Faculty

  • Fred Cohen (deceased January 2022)—Algebraic Topology, specifically Homotopy Theory; Cohomology of groups; Braid groups, function spaces, simplicial groups, moment-angle complexes and polyhedral products, applications to robotics
  • John Harper—H-spaces, co-H-spaces, Lusternik-Schnirrelmann category and other topics in unstable homotopy theory
  • Joseph Neisendorfer—Rational homotopy theory; Unstable Homotopy Theory
    • Published books:
      • Algebraic Methods in Unstable Homotopy Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2010

Postdoctoral Faculty

  • Carissa Slone - Equivariant homotopy
  • Sergio Chaves Ramirez - Equivariant Cohomology for finite group actions, Algebraic Properties of Equivariant Cohomology in terms of the topology of the underlying spaces, Group Actions on Polyhedral Products and Symplectic Manifolds
  • Bogdan Kristic - Category theorey and Tambara functors

Recent Postdoctoral Faculty that have moved

  • Vitaly Lorman—Data scientist at Children's Hospital, Philadelphia
  • Carl McTague—Assistant Professor of the Practice, Computer Science Department, Boston College
  • Elizabeth Vidaurre—Assistant Professor, Molloy College
  • Irina Bobkova - Postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study
  • 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

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Past Graduate Students

See also the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

  • Yuxin Luo (2022, Ravenel)
  • Shouman Das (2020, Cohen) - Goldman Sachs.
  • Ugur Yigit (2019, Ravenel) - Instructor at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey.
  • Qiaofeng Zhu (2019, Cohen) - Lecturer at University of Massachusetts, Boston.
  • Yexin Qu (2018, Ravenel) - Ph.D. program in Linguistics at Cornell.
  • Mingcong Zeng (2018, Ravenel) - Utrecht University, Netherlands.
  • Yan Zou (2018, Ravenel) - Citibank, Assistant Vice President in Model Risk Management.
  • Patrick Papadopulos (2016, Cohen and Pakianathan) - Adjunct at RIT for 2016 and then taking a position at Boston College in 2017
  • 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 PhD 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
  • 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)