Geometry/Topology at Michigan State University
Current Faculty and Students:
Geometry/Topology Faculty Postdoctoral Fellows Graduate Students
     
Our Past Students and Postdocs:
Geometry/Topology Ph.D. Students Geometry/Topology Postdocs Undergraduate Students

 

Current Faculty:




Casim Abbas works on symplectic and contact geometry.
 
Selman Akbulut's areas of research include 4-manifold topology, knot theory and real algebraic geometry.
 
Robert Bell's area of research is geometric group theory.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ron Fintushel's areas of research are gauge theory, smooth 4-manifold topology and knot theory.

 
Teena Gerhardt works on algebraic topology and algebraic K-theory.
 
Matt Hedden works on knot theory and 3- and 4-dimensional topology.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nick Ivanov works on mapping class groups and Riemann surface theory.


 

Effie Kalfagianni does research on low dimensional topology, knot theory, and 3-manifolds.


 
John McCarthy works on surface mapping class groups and symplectic topology.
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
Tom Parker works on gauge theory, geometric PDE, and symplectic topology.   Ben Schmidt does research on geometry and dynamical systems.  
Xiaodong Wang works on differential geometry and geometric analysis.
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
   
Jon Wolfson's areas of research include geometric analysis, pde, and variational problems.