Mark Branson
Department of Mathematics
SUNY Stony Brook
Office: Math Tower, Room 2-104
Office Hours: (Spring 2008) 11 AM - 12 PM Tuesday in my office (Math 2-104), 10-11 AM Monday and 10-11 AM Wednesday in the MLC
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Mark Branson
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The course(s) I am currently teaching are: Sections 7 & 11 of MAT 132
Links to past review sheets I've done for classes (MAT 123, 125, 132, 203) are available here
A bit about me: I'm a graduate student at SUNY-Stony Brook studying for my PhD. My specific interests are knot theory (specifically Legendrian knots) and other geometric topology. I graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor's of Arts in Mathematics and a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude in December of 2003. While at OU, I was a member of the Oklahoma Chapter of Triangle Fraternity, a fraternity of Engineers, Architects, and Scientists. I also spent a semester of my undergraduate career studying in the Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters (MASS) program at The Pennsylvania State University. Between my time at the University of Oklahoma and starting my degree at Stony Brook (and over every summer from 2003 to present), I worked at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. If you want to see the full formal list, it's available here.
Papers that I've written:
While at NASA Ames Research Center:
DAME: Planetary Prototype Drilling Automation, Proceedings of AIAA Space 2006
While in the MASS program at The Pennsylvania State University:
A Tabulation of Legendrian Knots by Ambient Isotopy
The Smale Horseshoe as a Fractal Structure in Dynamical Systems
The Solutions of x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = 0 and Kummer's Conjecture