Chris Tuffley's papers page
Publications and preprints
Postscript list of publications, with
abstracts (version of November 2004).
Topology
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(with Mira Bernstein)
Level structures on the Weierstrass family of cubics,
arXiv:math.AG/0512117,
December 2005.
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Finite subset spaces of closed surfaces,
arXiv:math.GT/0311371,
November 2003.
[postscript]
[pdf]
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Finite subset spaces of graphs and surfaces, Ph.D. dissertation,
University of California at Berkeley, 2003.
[gzipped postscript]
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Connectivity of finite subset spaces of cell complexes,
Pacific Journal of Mathematics
217(1):175-179 (2004),
arXiv:math.GT/0304086,
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The cohomology of the third finite subset space of a closed
orientable surface, March 2003. Now part of
Finite subset spaces of closed surfaces.
[postscript]
[pdf]
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Finite subset spaces of graphs and punctured surfaces,
Algebraic and Geometric Topology
3:873-904 (2003),
arXiv:math.GT/0210315.
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Finite subset spaces of S^1, Algebraic and Geometric Topology
2:1119-1145 (2002),
arXiv:math.GT/0209077.
Mathematical biology
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Trees and Ps and things that sneeze: Markov process models of
site substitution, Master's thesis, University of Canterbury, 1997.
[gzipped postscript]
- (with Mike Steel)
Modelling the covarion hypothesis of
nucleotide substitution, Mathematical Biosciences 147:63-91 (1998).
- (with Mike Steel) Links between maximum likelihood and maximum
parsimony under a simple model of site substitution, Bulletin
of Mathematical Biology 59(3):581-607 (1997).
On the lighter side...
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The keg index and a mathematical theory of drunkenness,
Mathematical Intelligencer 24(3)34-36,67, Summer 2002.
[postscript]
[pdf]
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The Great Epsilon Shortage, Mathematical Intelligencer 21(4):37,
Fall 1999.
[postscript]
[pdf]
On doing mathematics
Two essays written at BIRS Workshop 04w5555 on Creative Scientific Writing,
April 2004.
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