Graduate Students

Current students:

Onur Agirseven

Ignat Soroko

Jeremy Walthers

M. Korkmaz

My first doctoral student, M. Korkmaz, defended his Ph. D. Thesis in the Spring of 1996. He is currently at the Middle East Technical University .
Here are his full current address and his thesis.

  1. M. Korkmaz, Complexes of curves and mapping class groups,
    Ph. D. Thesis, MSU, 1996.

    His thesis was published in the following two papers.

  2. M. Korkmaz, First homology group of mapping class group of nonorientable surfaces, Math. Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc., V. 123, No. 3 (1998), 487-499.

  3. M. Korkmaz, Automorphisms of complexes of curves on punctured spheres and on punctured tori, Topology and its Appl., V. 95, No. 2 (1999), 85-111.

For the references to his further papers, one may consult MathSciNet.

F. Taherkhani

F. Taherkhani finished his Ph. D. in 1999. After working on software development for the Hewlett-Packard in the San Francisco Bay area, he is now working at a German Investment bank in Dusseldorf. He also did some work on the borderline of the Mathematics and Engeneering about «Pseudo Orthogonal Designs as Space-Time Block Code». The following paper is based on his thesis.

  1. F. Taherkhani, The Kazhdan property of the mapping class groups of closed surfaces and the first cohomology group of their cofinite subgroups
    Journal of Experimental Mathematics, V. 9, No. 2 (2000) 261-274.

    Here is the preliminary version of the paper.

    The published version of the paper currently can be downloaded from the Journal of Experimental Mathematics Web site at Volume 9, 2000 (scroll down to find the paper).

HeeSook Park

HeeSook Park defended her thesis in the Spring of 2001. During 2001-2006 she was at the Vassar College. She is currently a Research Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Her thesis is devoted to:

  1. Relative bounded cohomology and relative l1 homology.

    The first part of her thesis is published as

  2. HeeSook Park, Relative bounded cohomology, Topology and Appl., V. 131, No. 3 (2003), 203-234.