Mathematics The Topology Group

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Faculty and Their Research Area

• Tom Chapman

Geometric Topology

• Carl Eberhart

Point-Set Topology

• Brauch Fugate

Point-Set Topology

• David Johnson

Brown-Peterson and Related Homology

• Serge Ochanine

Elliptic Genera, Spin manifolds

Current Graduate Student

PhDs Awarded since 1975

• Anna Davis, 2002

• Jody Lynn Fast, 2000

The Beta Genus of Spin Hypersurfaces
Advisor: S. Ochanine

• Scott Simmons, 1998

Elliptic Genera, Homogeneous Spaces, and Afine Lie Algebras
Advisor: S. Ochanine

• Scott Smith, 1993

The Weakly Confluent Images of Graphs
Advisor: B. Fugate

• Joel Haywood, 1993

A Characterization of Universal Images of Trees
Advisor: C. Eberhart

• Robert Buskirk, 1991

A Universal Completely Regular Curve and Inverse Limits of Locally Connected Curves
Advisor: C. Eberhart

• Daniel Floyd Wagonner, 1985

Loop Spaces and the Classical Unitary Groups
Advisor: F. Cohen

• Scott Metcalf, 1982

Finding a Boundary for a Hilbert Cube Manifold Bundle
Advisor: T. Chapman

• Bruce Hughes, 1981

Local Homotopy Properties in Spaces of Approximate Fibrations
Advisor: T. Chapman

• William Otis Nowell, 1977

Tubular Neighborhoods of Hilbert Cube Manifolds Adviser: T. Chapman

• Crump Walker Baker, 1975

The Pedersen Ideal and The Representation of C*-algebras
Advisor: J. Mack

• Lawrence Mand, 1975

A Genralization of Cell-like Mappings
Advisor: T. Chapman

Topology Courses Offered

• MA 351/352 (Elementary Topology I and II)

Introductory course for undergraduates.
Fall 2001 instructor: B. Fugate.

• MA 551/651 (Topology I and II)

Basic graduate topology.
Fall 2001 instructor: T. Chapman.

• MA 654/655 (Algebraic Topology I and II)

Homotopy and Homology, complexes and applications.
Fall 2001 instructor: S. Ochanine

• MA 751/752 (Selected Topics in Topology)

Past topics included: Lie groups, Characteristic Classes, K-theory, Index theory,
Not offered in the Fall 2001

• MA 611 (Reading Courses in Topology)

Fall 2001 instructor: S. Ochanine (Lie Algebras)

Topology Preliminary Examinations

• Offered in January and June. More Info.

Topology Seminar

• Tuesdays, 1:00 - 2:00 PM, POT 845 (Fall 2001: Lie Groups)

Topology on the Web

• The Hopf Topology Archive

Maintained by Clarence Wilkerson

• Algebraic Topology Discussion List

Maintained by Don Davis

• British Topology

Maintained by Andy Baker

• Topology Atlas

Maintained by Dmitri Shakhmatov and Stephen Watson

• Geometry and Topology Address Book

Maintained by Andrew Nicas