Lenhard L Ng, Associate Professor
Office Location:
231 Physics
Office Phone:
(919) 660-6972
Email Address:
Web Page:
http://www.math.duke.edu/~ng/
Teaching (Spring 2012):
MATH 128S.01,
NUMBER THEORY
Synopsis
Physics 227, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
Office Hours:
Spring 2012:
Tuesdays 2:30 - 3:30
Wednesdays 1 - 2
and by appointment.
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
Current Ph.D. Students
David E. Rose
Postdocs Mentored
Christopher Cornwell (2011 - present)
Daniel Rutherford (2008 - 2011)
Undergraduate Research Supervised
Wutichai Chongchitmate (2009 - 2010)
Tirasan Khandhawit (2007 - 2008)
Recent Publications
L. Ng,
Combinatorial knot contact homology and transverse knots
, Advances in Mathematics, vol. 227 no. 6 (2011), pp. 2189-2219 [
1010.0451
]
L. Ng,
On arc index and maximal Thurston-Bennequin number
, Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Accepted, 2011) [
math.GT/0612356
]
W. Chongchitmate and L. Ng,
An atlas of Legendrian knots
, Experimental Mathematics (Accepted, 2011) [
1010.3997
]
T. Ekholm, J. Etnyre, L. Ng, and M. Sullivan,
Knot contact homology
(Submitted, 2011) [
1109.1542
]
J. Etnyre, L. Ng, and V. Vertesi,
Legendrian and transverse twist knots
, Journal of the European Mathematical Society (Accepted, 2011) [
1002.2400
]
Recent Grant Support
CAREER: Symplectic Field Theory and Low-Dimensional Topology
, National Science Foundation, 0846346, 2009/09-2014/08.
Holomorphic Curves and Low-Dimensional Topology
, National Science Foundation, DMS-0706777, 2007/07-2010/06.
Conferences Organized
Organizer, workshop "Cyclic homology and symplectic topology", November, 2009
Organizer, workshop "Algebraic structures in the theory of holomorphic curves", November, 2009
