Geometry/Topology at Michigan State University

 Welcome to the Geometry/Topology website.

Members of the Geometry/Topology Group at MSU work in many different fields and have expertise in a diverse set of techniques. We have lively and well-attended seminars, and one of our key goals is the cross-pollination of ideas between geometry and topology.

Our faculty consists of active researchers in most areas of geometry and low-dimensional topology including smooth 4-manifolds, symplectic and contact topology and geometry, the theory of pseudoholomorphic maps, geometric PDE, knot theory and its invariants, mapping class groups, and geometric variational theory.

Our faculty is highly-regarded. Eight currently have NSF Grants, two are coprincipal investigators of FRG's, and last year our group was awarded an RTG Grant from the National Science Foundation.

The Geometry/Topology Group at MSU has a long-standing commitment to excellence in graduate and postdoctoral training: we have produced some outstanding graduate students, and we have been fortunate to have recruited and mentored exceptional postdoctoral fellows.

           
 
         
 
Welcome Matt!
   
       
We are very pleased to announce that Matt Hedden has accepted a position at Michigan State and will be joining our group.  
       
           

 


Geometry/Topology Visitors - Fall 2007

Anar Akhmedov, Georgia Tech

Nathan Broaddus, U. Chicago

Ozgur Ceyhan, University of Montreal

Oliver Dasbach, LSU

John Etnyre, Georgia Tech.

Karsten Grove, Notre Dame

Francois Ledrappier, Notre Dame

Tomasz Mrowka, MIT

Tim Perutz, Columbia University

Peter Scott, U. Michigan

Andras Stipsicz, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Guofang Wei, UC Santa Barbara

Kouichi Yasui, Osaka University

Zhang Zhou, U Michigan




 


Geometry/Topology Visitors - Spring 2008

Celso Doria, U.Federal de Santa Catarina

Eli Grigsby, Columbia U.

Matt Hedden, MIT

Lizhen Ji, U. Michigan

Paul Kirk, Indiana U.

Cagatay Kutluhan, U. Michigan

Dan Margalit, U. Utah

Hossein Namazi, Princeton

Sema Salur, Rochester

Juan Souto, U. Michigan

Jens von Bergmann, Notre Dame

Ben Weinkove, Harvard

 

 

See our seminar page for further information.