Shelly Harvey

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Rice University









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

Curriculum Vitae
Papers (preprints and published works)
Abstracts of work (published, preprints, and in preparation)
Schedule


Talk on Classical Knot Concordance and Blanchfield Duality from "Geometric Topology Conference," Beijing 2007.
Talk on New Phenomena in Knots and Links from "4-Dimensional Manifolds," Oberwolfach 2006.
Talk on Group theoretic invariants of links and 3-manifolds from the conference "3-manifolds after Perelman" in Edinburgh (March 2006)
Talk on Homology Equivalence of Groups and Spaces from "Knots and their manifold stories" held at BIRS in May 2004.

Research Interests:
Low-dimensional topology and geometry, group theory, non-commutative algebra.
Outreach
Rice University Mathematical Institute for Young Women

Seminars:
Topology Seminar
VIGRE: Math 699 - Topology Working Seminar
Colloquium
Rice Math Calendar

Conferences co-organized
Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology at the AMS Fall Eastern Section Meeting, October 11-12, 2008.
3rd 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

Teaching:
Math 300 - Knot Theory
Math 543 - Topics in Low-Dimensional Topology (Products in Legendrian Contact Homology)

[Previous semesters]
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:
Pictures from "Knots, Groups and 3-Manifolds in Marseille 2006"
Some pictures from Hurricane Ike


mailing address:
Shelly Harvey
Department of Mathematics, MS 136
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892

office: Herman Brown 424
fax: (713)348-5231
phone: (713)348-3659
email: shepllqy@word.edu (take out p and q and replace word with a word that means "a swamp grass that is widely cultivated as a source of food, especially in Asia")



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