R.A. Litherland's Home Page

[A painting of Litherland in a deckchair.]

General information

Name:
Richard A. Litherland.
Position:
Retired Professor.
PhD:
University of Cambridge, 1979. My supervisor was Cameron Gordon.
Research interests (pre-retirement):
Low-dimensional topology, particularly knot theory.
Former PhD students, with dissertation titles:
Sam Nelson, Racks, quandles and virtual knots, 2002.
Bill Schellhorn, Virtual strings for closed curves with multiple components and filamentations for virtual links, 2005.
Steve Wallace, Surgery Description of Colored Knots, 2008.
Email Address:
lither@math.lsu.edu

Teaching

Not any more.