Olga Plamenevskaya

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:

• Khovanov homology, open books, and tight contact structures (with J. A. Baldwin), preprint 2008, arXiv:0808.2336.
  

• On transverse knots and branched covers (with S. Harvey and K. Kawamuro), preprint 2007, arXiv:0712.1557.
  

• 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.