Will Rushworth

I am a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Hull. I obtained my PhD from Durham University under the supervision of Andrew Lobb, and was a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster and Syracuse Universities before coming to Hull. My full CV is available here.

My mathematical interests are in low-dimensional topology, including link homology and concordance.

I also have a blog about text book covers.

Papers

All comments very welcome.
  1. On knots that divide ribbon knotted surfaces with Hans U. Boden, Ceyhun Elmacioglu, Anshul Guha, Homayun Karimi, Yun-chi Tang, and Bryan Wang Peng Jun. Submitted. Preprint available here.
  2. Minimal crossing number implies minimal supporting genus with Hans U. Boden. Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 53, 2021. Preprint available here.
  3. On ribbon graphs and virtual links with Scott Baldridge and Louis Kauffman. European J. Combin. 103, 2022. Preprint available here.
  4. Generalized Fishburn numbers and torus knots with Colin Bijaoui, Hans U. Boden, Beckham Myers, Robert Osburn, Aaron Tronsgard, and Shaoyang Zhou. J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 178, 2021. Preprint available here.
  5. Ascent concordance, Algebr. Geom. Topol. 21, no. 6, 2021. Preprint available here.
  6. A parity for 2-colourable links, Osaka J. Math. 58, no. 4, 2021. Preprint available here.
  7. Additional gradings on generalisations of Khovanov homology and invariants of embedded surfaces with Vassily Manturov, J. Knot Theory Ramifications 27 (9), 2018. Preprint available here.
  8. Computations of the slice genus of virtual knots, Topology Appl. 253, 2019. Preprint available here.
  9. Doubled Khovanov homology, Canad. J. Math. 70 (5), 2018. Preprint available here.

Teaching

Current teaching

All course information distributed via Canvas.

Past teaching
At Syracuse University
  • Spring 2022: MAT331 Linear Algebra I.
  • Fall 2021: MAT296 Calculus II.
At McMaster University
  • Winter 2021: 3T03 Inquiry in Topology.
  • Fall 2020: 1B03 Linear Algebra I.
  • Winter 2020: 3T03 Inquiry in Topology
  • Winter 2020: 1ZC3 Engineering Mathematics II
  • Winter 2019: 1B03 Linear Algebra 1/ 1ZC3 Engineering Mathematics II.
  • Fall 2018: 2Z03 Engineering Mathematics III.

Contact

You can email me at w.h.rushworth@hull.ac.uk.

My postal address is:
Department of Physics and Mathematics
University of Hull
Hull
HU6 7RX
United Kingdom

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