Graduate students of Patrick Gilmer

Graduate Students of Patrick Gilmer

Daniel Silver (Yale University 1980):

Professor

University Of South Alabama

Mobile, Alabama

Publications derived from thesis:

Finding stable-boundaries for open five-dimensional manifolds. Amer. J. Math. 105 (1983), no. 6, 1309--1324
Embedding $2$-spheres topologically in smooth $4$-manifolds. Houston J. Math. 9 (1983), no. 1, 119--124

Stephen Paris(LSU May 1995)

Assistant Professor at University of Louisiana Monroe Fall 1995- Summer 2000. He became an actuarial consultant at Watson Wyatt Worldwide in Houston. He is now Coordinator of the Actuarial Science Program at Florida State University in the Mathematics Department. He specializes in Financial Mathematics.

Publications derived from thesis:

An extremal property of Rokhlin's inequality for real algebraic curves, Math. Ann. 304 (1996), no. 3, 613--620
Rokhlin's inequalities for real algebraic curves and an extremal property, Manuscripta Math. 98 (1999), no. 4, 447--452

Basinyi Chimitza/Chimidza (LSU August 1995)

Lecturer

University Of Botswana

Gaborone, Botswana

Publication derived from thesis:

Modules associated to disconnected surfaces by quantization functors, Topology and its applications, 93 (1999) no. 1, 41--63

Wayne Stevens (LSU August 1996)

First position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University Hammond, Louisiana

Publications derived from thesis:

Recursion formulas for some Abelian knot invariants, Jour. Knot Theory and Its Ramifications 9, (2000),413-422

Jianyuan Zhong (LSU August 2000)

First position tenure track Assistant Professor at Louisiana Tech, Ruston, La. Second Position: Assistant Professor (tenure track) at California State University-Sacramento, Sacramento, CA.

Publications derived from thesis:

On the homflypt skein module of S^1 x S^2 ( with P. Gilmer), Math. Zeit. 237, 769-814 (2001)

John M. Harris (LSU August 2003)

Assistant Professor (tenure track)

University of Southern Mississippi-Gulfcoast

Thesis :"The Kauffman bracket skein module of the quaternionic manifold"

Publications derived from thesis:

On the Kauffman bracket skein module of the quaternionic manifold (with P. Gilmer), J. Knot Theory Ramifications, 16, (2007) 103--125

Khaled Qazaqzeh(LSU August 2006)

Assistant Professor

Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan

Thesis :"Topics in Quantum Topology"

Publications derived from thesis:

The parity of the Maslov index and the even cobordism category, (with P Gilmer), Fund. Math. 188 (2005), 95-102
Integral Bases for Certain TQFT-Modules of the Torus, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil Soc.,to appear
Periodic 3-Manifolds and Modular Categories, accepted for publication in J. Knot Theory Ramifications.