Research: Combinatorics, Group Theory, and Topology

Former Students

PhD Students

Student Year Advised by Thesis Position after Graduation
Matt Farmer 2024 Clifford Smyth Assistant Professor at Anderson University
Neil Pritchard 2023 Thomas Weighill Injective and coarse embeddings of persistence diagrams and Wasserstein space Lecturer at UNCG
James Rudzinski 2021 Clifford Smyth The Bunk Bed Conjecture and the Skolem Problem Instructor at GTCC
Austin Lawson 2019 Greg Bell “On the preservation of coarse properties over products and on persistence curves” Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Tennessee
Danielle Moran 2014 Greg Bell Permanence Results for Dimension-theoretic Coarse Notions Assistant Professor at Guilford College
Jenny Beck Talia Fernós

MA Students

Student Year Advised by Thesis Position after Graduation
Austin Lawson 2016 Greg Bell Multi-Scale Persistent Homology Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Tennessee
Joshua Martin 2016 Greg Bell Multiradial (Multi)Filtrations and Persistent Homology
Michael Watts 2013 Greg Bell On Characterizing Pairs of Permutations in Determining their Generated Group Math Instructor at United States Air Force Academy
Lauren Farr (née Sher) 2011 Greg Bell Asymptotic dimension and asymptotic property Instructor of Mathematics at Spartanburg Community College
Davorin Stajsic 2010 Clifford Smyth Combinatorial Game Theory Graduate student in Industrial Engineering at NC A&T
Anne Tally 2009 Paul Duvall On the Hausdorff Dimension of the Boundary of a SelfSimilar Tile
Jonathan Verner 2006 Jerry Vaughan The 17th Topological Type of ω ∗ Research Assistant at Charles University
Katzutomo Iinuma 2003 Jerry Vaughan Executive Pastor at Every Nation Church, NYC