Dylan
Thurston
I am an Assistant Professor of
Mathematics at Barnard College,
Columbia Unversity. I study low-dimensional topology, particularly finite-type
invariants and geometric
3-manifold topology. I received
my Ph.D. in 2000 from the
University of California, Berkeley; my advisor was Vaughan
Jones. Before coming to Columbia I was at Harvard as a Benjamin
Peirce Assistant Professor.
I am organizing the
Columbia Geometry/Topology
seminar for Spring 2009.
Teaching
In Spring 2009 I am teaching Math W4053, Introduction to Algebraic
Topology, and Math G4308, Algebraic Topology II. For more information
on both courses, please
visit CourseWorks.
There is a page with information for a summer
REU on rigidity of frameworks.
Research
I have a page of writing,
including publications,
preprints,
and drafts,
with electronic versions, and notes for
talks.
Personal
I used to live at Millstone
Cooperative. I spend a
lot of time with my partner, Ken Shan,
an
assistant professor in the Computer Science department at Rutgers. I
taught him to bicycle.
Contact Information
E-mail: dpt@math.columbia.edu
Office: Mathematics 614, (212) 854-2298
Address: Dylan Thurston, Department of Mathematics,
Columbia University, Room 614, MC 4436, New York, NY 10027-6940
