Robert F. Craggs
Professor Emeritus, Department of
Mathematics
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
1409 W. Green Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801-2975
e-mail -
craggs@math.uiuc.edu
General Information
A.B. Ohio University, 1959
M.S. University of Wisconsin, 1960
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1966.
Areas of Interest
Geometric topology, combinatorial group theory.
Selected Papers
- On the algebra of handle operations in 4-manifolds,
Topology and its App. 30(1988), 237-252.
- Freely reducing group readings for 2-complexes in
4-manifolds. Topology 28(1989), 247-271.
- Links in 3-manifolds as obstructions in free reduction
problems. Topology and its App. 49(1993), 15-53.
- Ribbon disks, slice disks, lifting maps, and questions of
asphericity. Manuscript available on request.
PhD Students
Teruo Nagase 1978, Tokai University, Japan
Richard Brown, 1984, St. Olaf
Kenneth Feuerman, 1991, Adobe
Catherine Cavagnaro, 1995, Sewanee
Anthony Bedenikovic, 2000, Bradley
Paul Kapitza, 2001, Illinois Wesleyan
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