Lenhard L Ng, Assistant Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	231 Physics
Office Phone:	(919) 660-6972
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.math.duke.edu/~ng/

Teaching (Fall 2009):

• MATH 205.01, TOPOLOGY Synopsis

  Physics 259, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

Office Hours:

Fall 2009:
Tuesdays 2:00 - 2:50 pm, 4:05 - 4:30 pm
Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:00 pm

Education:

PhD	MIT	2001
AB	Harvard University	1996

Specialties:

Geometry
Topology

Research Interests: Symplectic geometry, Low dimensional topology, Contact geometry, Knot theory, Holomorphic curves

Keywords:

Symplectic geometry • Low dimensional topology • Contact geometry • Knot theory • Holomorphic curves

Curriculum Vitae

Postdocs Mentored

• Daniel Rutherford (2008 - present)  

Undergraduate Researches Supervised

• Tirasan Khandhawit (2007 - 2008)  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. L. Ng, Rational Symplectic Field Theory for Legendrian knots (Preprint, 2008) (51 pp.) [0806.4598]
2. T. Khandhawit and L. Ng, A family of transversely nonsimple knots (Submitted, 2008) [0806.1887]
3. L. Ng, Framed knot contact homology, Duke Mathematical Journal, vol. 141 no. 2 (2008), pp. 365-406 [math.GT/0407071]
4. L. Ng, A skein approach to Bennequin type inequalities, International Mathematics Research Notices, vol. 2008 (2008) (Art. ID rnn116, 18 pp.) [0709.2141]
5. L. Ng, P. Ozsvath, and D. Thurston, Transverse knots distinguished by knot Floer homology, Journal of Symplectic Geometry, vol. 6 no. 4 (2008), pp. 461-490 [math.GT/0703446]

Recent Grant Support

• Holomorphic Curves and Low-Dimensional Topology, National Science Foundation, DMS-0706777, 2007/07-2010/06.