Thomas Koberda

E-mail: koberda at math dot harvard dot edu

Office: Science Center 425b

Mailing Address:
Harvard University
Department of Mathematics
1 Oxford St
Cambridge, MA 02143

Here is my CV: pdf

Teaching

I am currently the course assistant for Math 231a. I have a weekly recitation on Mondays from 5-6 in SC 411.

Research

I am a third year graduate student, studying with Curt McMullen. My research is best described as geometric group theory. I am especially interested in mapping class groups of surfaces. I am also interested in the geometry and topology of 3-manifolds.

Here are my papers.

"Class field theory and the MKR dictionary for knots." This was my minor thesis at Harvard. I am not a number theorist and I expect that there are many mistakes and inaccurate statements contained therein. It is expository and does not contain many proofs. pdf

"Residual properties of certain 3-manifold groups." (Preprint) arXiv link

"Representations of Galois Groups on the Homology of Surfaces." Joint with A. Silberstein. (Preprint) arXiv link

"Effective indices of subgroups in one-relator groups with free quotients." (Preprint) arXiv link

"Asymptotic linearity of the mapping class group and a homological version of the Nielsen-Thurston classification." (Preprint) arXiv link

"On ergodic transformations that are both weakly mixing and uniformly rigid." Joint with J. James, K. Lindsey, C.E. Silva and P. Speh. (New York Journal of Mathematics 15 (2009) 393-403) NYJM link

"Measurable Sensitivity." Joint with J. James, K. Lindsey, C.E. Silva and P. Speh. (Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 136 (2008) 3549-3559) Proceedings link