Geometry/Topology at Michigan State University

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
Our Postdoctoral Fellows:


Yongwu Rong (1989--91) received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and is currently a Professor at George Washington University. He works on the topology of 3-manifolds. From 2001-2003 Yongwu was a program director at NSF.	Shuguang Wang (1990--92) received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. Shuguang works on gauge theory and its interaction with real algebraic geometry. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Missouri - Columbia.	Yongbin Ruan (1991--93) received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Yongbin works on low-dimensional geometry and its relation to mathematical physics. Yongbin was a Sloan Fellow as well as an invited speaker at the 1998 I.C.M. in Berlin. He is currently Professor at the University of Michigan


David Gomprecht (1992--94) received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His area of expertise is algebraic surface theory. Dave is currently teaching at the Dalton School in New York City.	John Havlicek (1993--95) received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He received a J.S. Frame Teaching Excellence Award in April 1995. During academic year 1995-96, he taught at Albion College. John is currently employed by Motorola, Inc. where he works on the development and deployment of formal methods for hardware design verification	Thomas Leness (1994--97) received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Tom works on gauge theory and 4-manifolds. He is now an Associate Professor at Florida International University.


Slava Krushkal (1996--97) received his Ph.D. from UC, San Diego. Slava works in 4-dimensional topology and geometry.He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia.	Wladek Lorek (1996--98) received his Ph.D. from SUNY at Stony Brook. Wladek works in symplectic topology. He is currently a graduate student in applied mathematics at MSU.	Meeyong Kim (1998--99) received her Ph.D. from Notre Dame. She worked in algebraic geometry. Meeyong died in a tragic accident in the summer of 2001.


Mark Hoyle (1998--99) received his Ph.D. from U.C.Santa Cruz. Mark works on hamiltonian topology.	Burak Ozbagci (1999--2002) received his Ph.D. from U.C. Irvine. Burak is currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. His area of interest is the geometric topology of low-dimensional manifolds. In 2003, Burak received the Outstanding Young Scientist Award from the Turkish Academy of Sciences.	Hessam Hamidi-Tehrani (2000) received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Hessam works on low-dimensional topology and mapping class groups. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Bronx Community College of CUNY.


B. Doug Park (2001--2002) received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Doug is currently an Associate Professor of Pure Mathematics at University of Waterloo. His areas of interest are gauge theory and low-dimensional topology.	Mainak Poddar (2001--2003) received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Mainak is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His area of interest is stringy geometry and topology of orbifolds.	Stefano Vidussi (2001--2002) received his Ph.D. from S.I.S.S.A, Trieste, Italy. Stefano is currently an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside. His area of interest is 3- and 4-manifold topology.


Mei-Lin Yau (2001--2005) Mei-Lin received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She works on symplectic and contact geometry and topology. Meilin is currently an Associate Professor at National Central University in Taiwan.	Olguta Buse (2002--2005) received her Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook. She works on symplectic topology. Olga was a research fellow at IPAM for summer 2003. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.	David Futer ( 2005 --2008 ) received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His area of interest is low-dimensional topology. David was an RTG Postdoctoral Fellow.He is currently an Assistant Professor at Temple University.


Spiro Karigiannis (2005 -- 2006) received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His area of interest is special holonomy and calibrated geometry. Spiro is currently a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellow at the University of Oxford	Lawrence Roberts (2005 -- ) received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. His area of interest is 3- and 4-topology and Ozsvath-Szabo invariants. Lawrence is an RTG Postdoctoral Fellow.	Mikhail Alyurov (2006 -- ) received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His area of interst is differential geometry. Mikhail is an RTG Postdoctoral Fellow.


Hui-Chuan Huang (2006 --2007) received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She works on geometric analysis, microlocal analysis, and PDE.	Jack Calcut (2008 -- ) received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. His area of interest is low-dimensional topology	Richard Siefring (2008-- ) received his Ph.D. from the Courant Instutute. He works on geometric analysis and symplectic geometry.