PhD students

My current and former PhD students are:

• Omar Ortiz (Melbourne, 2013)
• Drew Heard (Melbourne, 2014)
• TriThang Tran (Melbourne, 2014)
• Jeffrey Bailes (Melbourne, 2016)
• Park Jun-Yong (Minnesota, 2018)
• Shelley Kandola (Minnesota, 2019)
• Gregory Michel (Minnesota, expected 2020)
• Marshall Smith (Minnesota, expected 2021)

Minor exam

If you're interested in having me as the examiner for the minor topic in algebraic topology on your oral exam, here's a list of suggested problems in Hatcher that would serve as good preparation for the exam:

• 1.2: 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, 15, 20, 21.
• 1.3: 4, 10, 12, 14, 18, 19, 26, 29.
• 2.2: 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 19, 22, 28, 29, 36, 40.
• 2.C: 2, 5.
• 3.2: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 15.
• 3.3: 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 24, 25, 26.
• 3.A: 1.