Fred Cohen

Professor

Hylan 1002
(585) 275-9411

fred.cohen at rochester dot edu

UR Mathematics Seminars

• Topology Seminars

• Number Theory Seminars

Research Interests

My research interests are mainly in topology with connections to other areas such as

• classical homotopy theory,
• braid groups,
• configuration spaces,
• modular forms as the cohomology of certain configuration spaces, and
• cohomology of groups.

Graduate Students, current, and past

• Daniel Waggoner, 1985, Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta

• Shiu-Chun Wong, 1991, Zechiang University, Hangchou. scwong at math dot zju dot e d u dot c n

• Ran Levi 1993, University of Aberdeen

• Dai Tamaki 1993, Shinshu University, Japan

• Jie Wu 1995, National University of Singapore

• Miguel Xicotencatl 1997, Centro de Investigacion, Mexico City

• Jeff Wang, 1997, Industry. Jeff.Wang at REQUISITE dot com

• Takeshi Sato, 2000. Takeshi_Sato at urgrad dot rochester dot e d u

• Maria Voloshina 2003, California State University at Fresno

Current Editorial Boards

• Forum Mathematicum

• Algebraic and Geometric Topology

Recent preprints

• Combinatorial Group Theory In Homotopy Theory I

• Loop Spaces Of Configuration Spaces, Braid-Like Groups, And Knots

• On Loop Spaces Of Configuration Spaces

• On the homotopy type of infinite stunted projective spaces

• On Genus One Mapping Class Groups, Function Spaces, and Modular Forms

• Mapping Class Groups and Function Spaces

• Combinatorial Models for Iterated Loop Spaces

• On Orbit Configuration Spaces associated to the Gaussian Integers: Homotopy Groups, and Homology Groups

• Korea.12.February.2004