Dan Rutherford
Dan Rutherford
Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Phone:765-285-1729

Room:RB 470


Degrees:

Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of California - Davis, 2008
B.S. in Mathematics, minor in Music, Western Washington University, 2002

Research Interests:

  • Topology and Geometry
  • Contact and Sympletic Topology
  • Knot Theory

Selected Publications:

  • D. Rutherford and M. Sullivan, Generating families and augmentations for Legendrian surfaces, Alg. Geom. Topol. 18 (2018), no. 3, 1675-1731.
  • M. B. Henry and D. Rutherford, Ruling polynomials and augmentations over finite fields, J. Topology 8 (2015), no. 1, 1-37.
  • L. Ng and D. Rutherford, Satellites of Legendrian knots and representations of the Chekanov-Eliashberg algebra, Alg. Geom. Topol. 13 (2013), no. 5, 3047-3097.
  • D. Rutherford, HOMFLY-PT polynomial and normal rulings of Legendrian solid torus links, Quantum Topol. 2 (2011), 183--215.
  • D. Fuchs and D. Rutherford, Generating families and Legendrian contact homology in the standard contact space, Journal of Topology 4 (2011), no. 1, 190-226.

Course Schedule
Course No. Section Times Days Location
Experimental Develop 299X 645 1400 - 1450 M W F
Differential Geometr 445 1 1200 - 1250 M W F RB, room 107
Differential Geometr 545 1 1200 - 1250 M W F RB, room 107
Topology 1 645 1 1400 - 1450 M W F RB, room 126
Topology 1 645 800 0000 - 0000 OL, room ONLINE