David Shea Vela-Vick
Department of Mathematics
David Rittenhouse Laboratory
University of Pennsylvania
209 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

email: dvick@math (key)
office: DRL 3C11
office phone: 215.573.6255


Papers:

Triple linking numbers, Hopf invariants and integral formulas for three-component links
Joint with Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Rafal Komendarczyk, Paul Melvin, and Clayton Shonkwiler: In Preparation, 2008.
On the transverse invariant for bindings of open books
Submitted, 2008.
Higher-Dimensional Linking Integrals
Joint with Clayton Shonkwiler: Submitted 2008.
The Four Vertex Theorem and its Converse
Joint with Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, and Danniel Pomerleano: Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 54, 2007, No. 2, 192-207.

Talks:

The Four-Vertex Theorem and its Converse - Fall 2006
Khovanov Homology and the Slice Genus - Fall 2006
Taut to Tight: Foliations to Contact Structures - Summer 2006
A Few Facts About 3-manifolds (a cute little talk I gave on 3-manifolds) - Fall 2005
The Lickorish-Wallace Theorem - Fall 2005