Geometry/Topology Research Group
Geometry and Topology seminar meets Thursday 2–3 in Carnegie 109, unless stated otherwise. It is organized by Stephan Wehrli and William Wylie. Research group calendars can be found at http://math-internal.syr.edu/.
Group Members
Lee Kennard
Assistant Professor
Email: ltkennar@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.1492
Stephan Wehrli
Associate Professor
Email: smwehrli@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.1491
William Wylie
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Email: wwylie@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.1556
Yuan Yuan
Associate Professor
Email: yyuan05@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.1558
Professors Emeriti
Douglas Anderson
Professor Emeritus
Email: danderso@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.2037
John Ucci
Professor Emeritus
Email: jjucci@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.2037
Wu-Teh Hsiang
Associate Professor
Email: wthsiang@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.2037
Graduate students
Erin Griffin
Graduate Student
Email: egriff02@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.1582
Muzhi Jin
Graduate Student
Email: mujin@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.3321
Elahe Khalili Samani
Graduate Student
Email: ekhalili@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.5386
Alice Lim
Graduate Student
Email: awlim100@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.3321
Casey Necheles
Graduate Student
Email: clnechel@syr.edu
Phone: 315.443.2126
Recent Publications
- Positive curvature and symmetry in small dimensions (Manuel Amann, Lee Kennard)
- On the functoriality of sl(2) tangle homology (Anna Beliakova, Matthew Hogancamp, Krzysztof Karol Putyra, Stephan Martin Wehrli)
- Gradient shrinking Ricci solitons of half harmonic Weyl curvature (Jia-Yong Wu, Peng Wu, William Wylie)
- Cohomogeneity one manifolds with singly generated rational cohomology (Jason DeVito, Lee Kennard)
- Diameter rigidity for Kähler manifolds with positive bisectional curvature (Gang Liu, Yuan Yuan)
- An action of gl(1|1) on odd annular Khovanov homology (J. Elisenda Grigsby, Stephan M. Wehrli)
- New restrictions on the topology of extreme black holes (Marcus Khuri, Eric Woolgar, William Wylie)
- Annular Khovanov homology and knotted Schur-Weyl representations (J. Elisenda Grigsby, Anthony M. Licata, Stephan M. Wehrli)
- Curvature-dimension bounds for Lorentzian splitting theorems (Eric Woolgar, William Wylie)
- The weighted connection and sectional curvature for manifolds with density (Lee Kennard, William Wylie, Dmytro Yeroshkin)