Lenhard Ng, Assistant Professor

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

Teaching (Fall 2008):

• MATH 262.01, ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY II Synopsis

  Physics 205, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

• MATH 378.03, RESEARCH IN ALGEGRAIC GEOMETRY

  Physics 235, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM

Office Hours:

Fall 2008:
Tuesdays, Thursdays 9:45 - 11:00 am

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

Recent Publications

1. L. Ng, A skein approach to Bennequin type inequalities (Preprint, 2007) [0709.2141]
2. L. Ng, On arc index and maximal Thurston-Bennequin number (Submitted, 2007) [math.GT/0612356]
3. L. Ng, Framed knot contact homology, Duke Math. J. (2007) (to appear.) [math.GT/0407071]
4. L. Ng, P. Ozsvath, and D. Thurston, Transverse knots distinguished by knot Floer homology (Submitted, 2007) [math.GT/0703446]
5. L. Ng, Conormal bundles, contact homology, and knot invariants, in The interaction of finite type and Gromov–Witten invariants at the Banff International Research Station (2003), Geom. Topol. Monogr., vol. 8 (2006), pp. 129-144 [math.GT/0412330]

Recent Grant Support

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