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Professional Information

Contact Information:

Department of Mathematics, Barnard-Columbia
2990 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

Office Hours: by appointment.

Research Interests:knots, braids, 3-manifolds, mapping class groups of surfaces;
related topics in geometric group theory, algorithms, contact geometry, dynamical systems

Curriculum Vitae

Downloadable Publications

Suggested Readings

SHP Lecture Notes, 2/10 /09

Lorenz knots and links; a talk aimed at a general audience of mathematicians 02/13/09

Pictures:March-05-Conf


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