Philip Hackney

The following two items are difficult for me to wash properly.
Strainer
Blender

Characteristic Classes

This summer a group is reading Characteristic Classes by Milnor and Stasheff. We are meeting on Fridays at 1 for an hour or two in math 731.

Publications

doi:10.1016/j.topol.2004.11.007 k-alternating knots. With Nathan Walters and Leonard Van Wyk.
doi:10.1137/050629793 On the Minimum Rank Among Positive Semidefinite Matrices with a Given Graph. With Sivaram Narayan and many others.

Other Websites

The Independent Monkey is the infrequently updated blog of my former officemate / housemate Navin.
Javid Validashti used to be my officemate.
Jim Clarkson used to be Javid's officemate.