Professor of Mathematics
Department
of Mathematics
University
at Buffalo
244 Mathematics Building
Buffalo, New York
14260-2900
U. S. A.
Office: Mathematics Building112
Phone:
716-645-6284, extension 127
Fax: 716-634-5039
E-mail:
menasco@math.buffalo.edu
My research interests are in the geometric topology, 3 & 4-manifolds, knot theory, braid theory, hyperbolic geometry, and dynamical systems.
Recent publications
(with R. Kleinberg) Train tracks and Zipping Sequences for Pseudo-Anosov Braids, Knot Theory and Its Applications. Chaos Solitons Fractals 9 (1998), no. 4-5, 793--809.
Closed Braids and Heegaard Splittings, preprint 1999, to appear in Knots, Braids, and Mapping Class Groups: Papers dedicated to Professor Joan Birman. [.pdf (Acrobat) version]
Knots, Braids, and Mapping Class Groups: Papers dedicated to Professor Joan Birman, Ed. J. Gilman, W. Menasco, and X.-S. Lin, International Press.
(with X. Zhang) Notes on Tangles, 2-Handle Additions And Exceptional Dehn Fillings, preprint 1999, to appear in Pacific Journal of Mathematics. [.pdf (Acrobat) version]
On Iterated Torus Knots and Transversal Knots, Geometry & Topology, Vol. 5 (2001) Paper no. 21, pages 651--682. [.pdf (Acrobat) version]
(with X. Zhang)Positive knots and knots with braid index three have property-P, preprint 2000, to appear in Journal of Knot Theory its Ramifications. [.pdf (Acrobat) version]
(with J. Birman)On Markov's Theorem, preprint 2001, to appear in Proceddings of Knots 2000. [.pdf (Acrobat) version]
(with J. Birman) Stabilization in the braid groups-I:MTWS, Geometry & Topology 10 (2006), 413-540. [.pdf (Acrobat version)]
(with J. Birman) Stabilization in the braid groups-II: Transversal simplicity of knots, to appear in Geometry & Topology. [.pdf(Acrobat version)]
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Courses and Seminars
Graduate course description and assignments for Spring-2009 semester section of Math628 and Math635
Spring-2009 Discovery Seminar Human Nature and Mathematics UE141
Topic of up coming geometric topology seminar.
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"Knowledge no doubt made bad people worse, but it must make good people better! I was convinced they would learn mathematics." Lilith, George MacDonald.