Education

University of California, Davis

Ph.D. in Mathematics, June 2008

Dissertation: Lens space surgeries on tunnel number one knots

Advisor: Professor Abigail Thompson

Research Interests

Topology, especially knot theory and 3-dimensional manifolds.

My Curriculum Vitae

Research Papers

On nonsimple knots in lens spaces with tunnel number one , submitted

Handle number one links and generalized property R , submitted

UCSB Teaching

Introduction to Topology (MAT 145 - Spring 2009)

Combinatorial Analysis (MAT 116 - Summer Session 2010)

E-mail Address

mikew--A.T--math.ucsb.edu  (replace --A.T-- appropriately)