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)

Coordinator of the Actuarial Science Program at Florida State University in the Mathematics Department.

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

An unpublished paper from thesis:

Jianyuan Zhong (LSU August 2000)

Associate Professor 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. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 143 (2007), no. 3, 669--684.
Periodic 3-Manifolds and Modular Categories, J. Knot Theory Ramifications 17 (2008), no. 5, 529--536.

Xuanting Cai (Current LSU Graduate Student)

Susan Abernathy (Current LSU Graduate Student)