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Christopher Herald

Foundation Professor and w88 online casino Graduate Program Director He/him/his

Summary

  • w88 online casino, 2023-present
  • w88 online casino Graduate Program Director, University of Nevada, Reno, 2021-present
  • Professor, w88 online casino, Reno, 2009-present
  • Core w88 online casino Director, University of Nevada, Reno, 2008- 2014
  • Associate Professor, w88 online casino, Reno, 2003- 2009
  • Assistant Professor, w88 online casino, Reno, 1999-2003
  • w88 online casino, Swarthmore College, 1996-1999
  • Britton Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 1994-1996
  • Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institut für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany, January-June 1995
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, w88 online casino California, Irvine, 1992-1994

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My current research interests include low-dimensional topology, w88 online casino theory, symplectic geometry, and gauge theory.

My current projects are related to traceless SU(2) w88 online casino knots and links in 3-manifolds. Consider a surface splitting the knot into tangles. The traceless w88 online casino the tangles produce Lagrangian submanifolds in the traceless character variety of the splitting surface, which is a symplectic manifold. The Fukaya category of this symplectic manifold provides a very useful algebraic framework to study these situations.

These w88 online casino discussed above are related to singular instanton knot Floer homology, Khovanov homology and Casson-Lin invariants.

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley B.A., w88 online casino 1985
  • University of California, Berkeley Ph.D., w88 online casino 1992

Select publications and preprints

  • Examples of homology 3-spheres whose unperturbed Chern-Simons function is not Morse-Bott, (with H. Boden and P. Kirk), "Frontiers in Geometry and Topology," AMS Proceedings of Symposia in Pure w88 online casino (to appear). Preprint at arXiv:2301.03676.
  • The correspondence induced on the pillowcase by the earring tangle (with G. Cazassus, P. Kirk, and A. Kotelskiy). J. Topol. 15 (2022), Issue 4, 2472-2543. w88 online casino:2010.04320
  • Tangles, relative character varieties, and holonomy perturbed traceless moduli spaces (with G. Cazassus and P. Kirk), Open Book Ser. 5 (2022), No. 1, Math. Sci. Publ., 95-121. w88 online casino:2101.00901.
  • The Fukaya category of the pillowcase, traceless character varieties, and Khovanov Cohomology (with M. Hedden, M. Hogancamp, and P. Kirk), Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 373 (2020), 8391-8437. w88 online casino:1808.06957.
  • A note on orderability and Dehn filling (with X. Zhang), Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 147 (2019), 2815-2819. w88 online casino:1807.00742.
  • Holonomy perturbations in a cylinder, and regularity for traceless SU(2) character varieties of tangles (with P. Kirk), Quantum Topology , 9 (2018), no. 2, 349-418. w88 online casino:15111.00308.
  • The pillowcase and traceless representations of knot groups, II: A Lagrangian-Floer theory in the pillowcase (with M. Hedden and P. Kirk), J. Symplect. Geom. 16 (2018), no. 3, 721-815. w88 online casino:1501.00028.
  • The SU(2) Casson-Lin invariant of the Hopf link (with H. Boden), Pacific J. Math. 285 (2016), no. 2, 283-288. w88 online casino:1601.06017.