Olga Plamenevskaya

Fall 2010: MAT 364 (Topology and Geometry); MAT 539 (Algebraic Topology)

Spring 2010: MAT 621 (Topics in topology of low-dimensional manifolds)

Fall 2009: MAT 132 (Calculus II); MAT 530 (Topology, Geometry I)

Spring 2009: MAT 211 (Introduction to Linear Algebra); MAT 311 (Number Theory)

Fall 2008: MAT 511(Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics)

Spring 2008: MAT 621(Heegaard Floer Homology)

Fall 2007: MAT 132(Calculus II); MAT 530 (Topology, Geometry I)

Research

Areas of interest: low-dimensional topology, especially Heegaard Floer homology and contact topology

Recent publications:

• Rational open books and knot Floer homology (with M. Hedden), preprint 2011.

• On Legendrian surgeries between lens spaces, J. Symp. Geom to appear.
  

• Planar open books, monodromy factorizations, and symplectic fillings (with J. Van Horn-Morris), Geom. Topol. 14 (2010) no.4, pp. 2077–2101

• Khovanov homology, open books, and tight contact structures (with J. A. Baldwin), Adv. Math. 224 (2010), no. 6, 2544–2582
  

• On transverse knots and branched covers (with S. Harvey and K. Kawamuro), Int. Math. Res. Not. (2009), no. 3, 512--546.
  

• A combinatorial description of the Heegaard Floer contact invariant, Alg. Geom. Top. 7 (2007), 1201–1209.
  

• Transverse knots, branched double covers and Heegaard Floer contact invariants, J. Symplectic Geom. 4 (2006), no. 2, 149–170.
  

• Transverse knots and Khovanov homology, Math. Res. Lett. 13 (2006), no. 4, 571–586.
  

• Bounds for the Thurston–Bennequin number from Floer homology, Alg. Geom. Top. 4 (2004), 399–406.
  

• Contact structures with distinct Heegaard Floer invariants, Math. Res. Lett. 11 (2004), no. 4, 547–561.