I'm a PhD student in Mathematics at Michigan State University.
I am interested in low dimensional topology, in particular invariants of 3- and 4-manifolds coming from Floer homology theories and also knot invariants.
PhD Advisor: Selman Akbulut
Thesis: Heegaard Floer homology of certain 3-manifolds and cobordism invariants, defended: April 2008

Contact Information
Office: A522 Wells Hall

email:

durusoyd

@

math.msu.edu

Teaching
I have taught Math 202 section 4 in spring 2008.
I have taught Math 124 sections 2 and 16 in Fall 2007, and Math 234 in Summer 2007
I have also taught Math 103 and Math 132 at MSU.

Publications:
• An involution acting nontrivially on Heegaard-Floer homology ( with S. Akbulut ),
     published in Geometry and Topology of Manifolds, Fields Inst. Comm. vol 47, abstract
• Heegaard-Floer homology and a family of Brieskorn spheres, preprint, abstract
• Tightness of contact structures on certain 3-manifolds ( with F. Arikan ), in preparation, 2008

Other material:
Table of negative definite plumbing graphs for Brieskorn homology spheres ( PDF )
On the Möbius band - a text I wrote in undergraduate (1997, in Turkish).

See also seminars conferences and workshops I have attended.

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