College of Arts and Sciences — Mathematics

Cornelia A. Van Cott

Assistant Professor


Office Hours
M 12:30-2:00pm
T 10:00-11:00am
R 3:00-4:30pm

Education

Ph.D. Indiana University (2008)
B.S. Wheaton College (2002)

Research Areas

Knot theory and low dimensional topology, particularly the interplay between three and four-dimensional topology observed in the knot concordance group

Teaching
  • Math 110 Calculus 2
Publications

Concordance of Bing doubles and boundary genus, joint with Charles Livingston, Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 151 (2011), 459--470.

Ozsvath--Szabo and Rasmussen invariants of cable knots, Algebr. Geom. Topol. 10 (2010), 825--836.