Alexander Coward

Research interests: Topology, Geometry, Algorithms.

Mathematics Department
One Shields Avenue
University of California
Davis
CA 95616

Mathematics Department Office: 2214
Phone: (530) 754 5405
Fax: (530) 752 6635
Email: coward(at)math.ucdavis.edu

• 1. Ordering the Reidemeister moves of a classical knot, Alg. Geom. Top. 6 (2006) 659-671.
• 2. (Joint with Marc Lackenby) Unknotting genus one knots, Comment. Math. Helv. (to appear).
• 3. Algorithmically detecting the bridge number of hyperbolic knots, preprint (arxiv.org/abs/0710.1262).

• Detecting the bridge number of hyperbolic knots.

• Unknotting genus one knots.

• Topology and Groups (Michaelmas 2009)

• 16A (Fall 2008)
• Graduate Course: Knots and Surfaces 3-manifolds (Fall 2008)
• 22B (Winter 2009)
• Advanced class on the Qiu-Scharlemann proof of Gordon's conjecture (Winter 2009)
• 16C (Spring 2009)
• COSMOS Cluster 5 (Summer 2009)