Fax: (530) 752-6635
e-mail: thompson@math.ucdavis.edu
Knot generated by KnotPlot .
Winter 2008::
Math 145, Combinatorics. Here is the
syllabus.
General Area of Interest: Knot Theory; 3-Manifolds
Year Joining the Davis Faculty: 1988
Degree: Ph.D. 1986, Rutgers University
Click here to see some of my papers on Math. Reviews.
You can see a general description of my research on my department profiles page.
Here is a scanned version of my paper Thin position and the recognition problem for S^3 in pdf format.
I am currently director of the COSMOS program at UC Davis. This
is a 4-week residential
summer program in mathematics and science for
talented high school students.