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Tori and Heegaard splittings
Haken showed that the Heegaard splittings of reducible 3-manifolds are
reducible, that is, a reducing 2-sphere can be found which intersects the
Heegaard surface in a single simple closed curve. When the genus of the
"interesting" surface increases from zero, more complicated phenomena occur.
Kobayashi showed that if a 3-manifold contains an essential torus ,
then it contains one which can be isotoped to intersect a strongly irreducible
Heegaard splitting surface in a collection of simple closed curves which
are essential in and in . In general there is no global bound on the
number of curves in this collection. We give conditions under which a global
bound can be obtained
Dehn surgery on complicated fibered knots in the 3-sphere
Let K be a fibered knot in the 3-sphere. We show that if the monodromy of K
is sufficiently complicated, then Dehn surgery on K cannot yield a lens space.
Work of Yi Ni shows that if K has a lens space surgery then it is fibered.
Combining this with our result we see that if K has a lens space surgery then
it is fibered and the monodromy is relatively simple
On tunnel number one knots that are not (1,n)
We show that the bridge number of a bridge knot in with respect to
an unknotted genus surface is bounded below by a function of the distance
of the Heegaard splitting induced by the bridges. It follows that for any
natural number , there is a tunnel number one knot in that is not
.Comment: 7 page
Knots and k-width
We investigate several integer invariants of curves in 3-space. We
demonstrate relationships of these invariants to crossing number and to total
curvature
Community Art Installation As An Approach To Art Therapy: A Community Engagement
In this thesis capstone paper, I advocate for a community art installation as an ethical and engaging way to approach art therapy. I argue that this approach may blur the lines between art therapy, art education and arts activism, but it is a powerful and anti-oppressive way to facilitate healing in marginalized communities. I found this approach furthered my understanding of what it means to be a competent and ethical art therapist. I also found it empowered art therapy group members and made them active facilitators of change in their lives and their communities. Observing the success of this project suggests a paradigm shift in approaches to art therapy
Surfaces, submanifolds, and aligned Fox reimbedding in non-Haken 3-manifolds
Understanding non-Haken 3-manifolds is central to many current endeavors in
3-manifold topology. We describe some results for closed orientable surfaces in
non-Haken manifolds, and extend Fox's theorem for submanifolds of the 3-sphere
to submanifolds of general non-Haken manifolds. In the case where the
submanifold has connected boundary, we show also that the boundary-connected
sum decomposition of the submanifold can be aligned with such a structure on
the submanifold's complement.Comment: 10 page
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