University of Kentucky
Topology and Geometry Research Group

Department of Mathematics
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027

Faculty

Benjamin Braun, Assistant Professor, algebraic and topological combinatorics (cross-listed with discrete mathematics)

OT 831, (859) 257-6810, braun@ms.uky.edu

Tom Chapman, Professor, geometric topology

OT 769, (859) 257-6795, chapman@ms.uky.edu

Brauch Fugate, Professor, general topology

OT 737, (859) 257-4781, fugate@ms.uky.edu

Serge Ochanine, Associate Professor, homotopy theory, elliptic cohomology

OT 837, (859) 257-8837, ochanine@ms.uky.edu

David Royster, Associate Professor, math education and outreach, equivariant cobordism

OT 759, (859) 257-1258, droyster@ms.uky.edu

Emeriti

Carl Eberhart, Professor, general topology

carl@ms.uky.edu

David Johnson , Professor Emeritus, homotopy theory

johnson@ms.uky.edu

John Mack , Professor Emeritus, general topology

mack@ms.uky.edu

Qualified Graduate Students

Josh Roberts
Matthew Zeckner (cross-listed with discrete mathematics)

Affiliated Graduate Students

Beth Kirby
Andrew Wilfong

Topology and Geometry Seminar

UK Topology and Geometry Seminar Archive

For information regarding the Topology and Geometry seminar, please contact either Serge Ochanine or Ben Braun.

Links

• Midwest Topology Seminar
• Hopf Topology Archive
• Mathematics arXiv Front
• American Mathematical Society
• Mathematical Association of America
• UK Graduate Student Council
• General Mathematics Conferences Listing
• AMS Mathematical Calendar

UK Topology and Geometry PhD Dissertations

• Eric Kahn, 2009
  The Generalized Burnside and Representation Rings
  Advisor: M. Anton
• Elizabeth Stepp, 2005
  Large Whitney Levels and Closed Antichains
  Advisor: C. Eberhart
• Steve Elliott, 2005
  Simple Homotopy Theory for Cell Complexes
  Advisor: T. Chapman
• Anna Davis, 2002
  A Relative Version of the Finiteness Obstruction Theory of Wall
  Advisor: T. Chapman
• Jody Lynn Fast, 2000
  The Beta Genus of Spin Hypersurfaces
  Advisor: S. Ochanine
• Scott Simmons, 1998
  Elliptic Genera, Homogeneous Spaces, and Affine 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
  Advisor: T. Chapman
• Crump Walker Baker, 1975
  The Pedersen Ideal and The Representation of C*-algebras
  Advisor: J. Mack
• Lawrence Mand, 1975
  A Generalization of Cell-like Mappings
  Advisor: T. Chapman