Abigail Thompson

Professor

e-mail: thompson@math.ucdavis.edu

Knot generated by KnotPlot .

2011-2012 Committees: Chair, Letters and Science Executive Committee. Standing Committees of Letters and Science and their charges.

General Area of Interest: Knot Theory; 3-Manifolds

Year Joining the Davis Faculty: 1988

Degree: Ph.D. 1986, Rutgers University

Classes Spring 2012: Math 216- Geometric Topology

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.

A brief biography is available here.

An occasionally updated CV is here.

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.

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