Shelly Harvey Associate Professor Department of Mathematics Rice University office: Herman Brown 446 fax: (713)348-5231 phone: (713)348-3659 email: my first name at rice dot edu   Hempelfest (aka 3-Manifolds: Heegaard Splittings, the Curve Complex, and Hyperbolic geometry) April 19-21, 2013 Rice University

This research is partially supported by an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, DMS-0748458.

Research Interests:
Low-dimensional topology and geometry, group theory, non-commutative algebra.

Curriculum Vitae
Publications and Preprints from arXiv.org
Publications from MathSciNet

Selected Research Talks:
4-dimensional equivalence relations on knots; Invited Address at the AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting in Winston-Salem, NC, September 2011.
Knots and link concordance; Connections for Women: Homology Theories of Knots and Links at MSRI, January 2010.
Torsion in the knot concordance group; Cascade Topology Seminar, University of Oregon, October 2009.
Torsion in the knot concordance group; 2009 Georgia International Topology Conference, May 2009.
A survey of knot theory and its combinatorial invariants; CombinaTexas: Combinatorics in the South-central US conference, University of Houston, April 2009.
Subgroups of the mapping class group and higher-order signature cocycles; Colloquium, University of Indiana, Bloomington, March 2009.
Subgroups of the mapping class group and higher-order signature cocycles; Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, University of Houston, February 2009.
Filtrations of the Knot Concordance Group; Colloquium at University of Riverside, December 2008.
Classical Knot Concordance and Blanchfield Duality; "Geometric Topology Conference," Beijing 2007.
New Phenomena in Knots and Links; "4-Dimensional Manifolds," Oberwolfach 2006.
Group theoretic invariants of links and 3-manifolds; "3-manifolds after Perelman," Edinburgh, Scotland, March 2006.
Homology Equivalence of Groups and Spaces; "Knots and their manifold stories" held at BIRS in May 2004.

PhD Students:
Carolyn Otto, Ph.D. May 2011
Taylor Coon, Ph.D. expected May 2013
Taylor McNeill, Ph.D. expected May 2013
Katherine Poulsen

Seminars:
Topology Seminar
VIGRE: Math 699 - Current Topics in Topology
Rice Math Calendar

Conferences co-organized
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology at the AMS Fall Eastern Section Meeting, October 11-12, 2008.
3^rd Annual Louisiana Texas Topology Retreat, Rice University, February 9-10, 2008
       Pictures from the Retreat
Second Louisiana-Texas-Topology-Retreat (LTTR), February 3-4, 2007
2006 Texas Geometry and Topology Conference at Rice University, Oct 27-29, 2006

Outreach
Director of the Rice University Mathematical Institute for Young Women

Teaching:
Math 356 - Abstract Algebra I
Math 445/540 - Algebraic Topology

Math 304 - Elements of Knot Theory (Spring 2012)
Math 445/540 - Algebraic Topology (Spring 2012)
Math 445/540 - Algebraic Topology (Spring 2010)
Math 542 - Topics in Advanced Topology: Advanced Algebraic Topology (Spring 2010)
Math 543 - Topics in Low-Dimensional Topology [Topic: 4-Manifolds] (Spring 2010)
Math 300 - Knot Theory (Fall 2009)
Math 543 - Topics in Low-Dimensional Topology: Products in Legendrian Contact Homology (Fall 2009)
Math 445 - Algebraic Topology (Spring 2009)
Math 542 - Topics in Advanced Topology: Knot Homologies (Spring 2009)
Math 356 - Abstract Algebra I (Spring 2008)
Math 445 - Algebraic Topology (Spring 2008)
Math 445 - Algebraic Topology (Spring 2007)
Math 102 - Single Variable Calculus II (Spring 2006)
Math 542 - Symplectic Geometry and Topology (Spring 2006)
Math 401 - Differential Geometry (Fall 2005)
(MIT)18.904 Undergraduate Seminar in Topology (Spring 2005)
(MIT)18.905 Algebraic Topology (Fall 2004)

Other:
In Memory of Ranger 1998-2010 Pictures from "Knots, Groups and 3-Manifolds in Marseille 2006"
Some pictures from Hurricane Ike