Robert Lipshitz

 

Ph.D. Students


Former


(By graduation year.)
  • Ina Petkova. Ph.D., Columbia University, 2012. Co-advised with P. Ozsváth and D. Thurston
    • Thesis: Bordered Heegaard Floer homology, Satellites, and Decategorification.
    • Currently an Associate Professor at Dartmouth University.
  • Kristen Hendricks. Ph.D., Columbia University, 2013. Co-advised with P. Ozsváth.
    • Thesis: Localization and Heegaard Floer Homology.
    • Currently an Associate Professor at Rutgers University.
  • Jonathan Hales. Ph.D., Stony Brook University, 2013. Co-advised with O. Plamenevskaya.
    • Thesis: Exotic Four-Manifolds, Corks, and Heegaard Floer Homology.
    • Currently a Software Engineer working at PostEra.ai.
  • Corrin Clarkson. Ph.D., Columbia University, 2014.
    • Thesis: Three Manifold Mutations Detected by Heegaard Floer Homology.
    • Currently the Director of General Education Math Modeling at Indiana University.
  • Jonathan Hanselman. Ph.D., Columbia University, 2014.
    • Thesis: Bordered Heegaard Floer homology and graph manifolds.
    • Currently an Assistant Professor at Princeton University.
  • Mike Wong. Ph.D., Columbia University, 2017. Co-advised with P. Ozsváth.
    • Thesis: Unoriented skein relations for grid homology and tangle Floer homology.
    • Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa.
  • James Cornish. Ph.D., Columbia University, 2018.
    • Thesis: Growth Rate of 3-Manifold Homologies under Branched Covers.
    • Currently on the job market.
  • Jeffrey Musyt. Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2019.
    • Thesis: Equivariant Khovanov homotopy and periodic links.
    • Currently an Assistant Professor at Slippery Rock University.
  • Keegan Boyle. Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2019.
    • Thesis: On symmetries of knots and their surgeries.
    • Currently an Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University.
  • Michael Gartner. Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2019.
    • Thesis: Naturality in Heegaard Floer homology.
    • Currently a data scientist at AI2.
  • Gabriel Montes de Oca. Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2020.
    • Thesis: An odd analog of Plamenevskaya's invariant of transverse knots
    • Currently on the job market.
  • Champ Davis. Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2023.
    • Thesis: Structures and computations in annular Khovanov homology.
    • Currently a lecturer at CU Boulder.
  • Gary Guth. Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2023.
    • Thesis: Ribbons, satellites, and exotic phenomena in Heegaard Floer homology.
    • Currently a Simons postdoc at Stanford University.
  • Jesse Cohen. PhD., University of Oregon, 2023.
    • Thesis: Composition and cobordism maps.
    • Currently a postdoctoral research associate at Hamburg University.
  • Holt Bodish. Ph.D., University of Oregon, 2024.
    • Thesis: Reducible Dehn surgeries, ribbon concordance, and satellite knots.
    • Currently a postdoc at UIUC.

Current


  • Neda Bagherifard (University of Oregon)
  • Siavash Jafarizadeh (University of Oregon).
  • Hanming Liu (University of Oregon).

Master's Students


  • Jacqueline Stone, M.S., University of North Carolina, 2013.
    • Master's project: Algebraic Topology from the Perspective of Morse Homology
    • Currently an Adjunct Mathematics Instructor at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Undergraduate Students


Senior theses


Summer research projects


Columbia Undergraduate Mathematics Research Program, 2007.

These projects were assisted by Thomas Peters.

Columbia Undergraduate Mathematics Research Program, 2009.


This project was coadvised with Timothy Perutz, with assistance from Jonathan Bloom and Thomas Peters


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