Masahico Saito's Home Page

Highlights

Knots and Quandles

• Quandle cocycle invariants of knots
• Small conected quandles and their knot colorings

Graphs for DNA Assembly

Conferences Co-orgaized at USF Tampa (Supported by NSF, USF)

• Workshop on Discrete and Topological Methods in Molecular Biology
  (March, 2012).
• Knotting Mathematics and Art :
  Conference in Low Dimensional Topology and Mathematical Art
  (November 2007).

Research

Research Interests -- Geometric Topology, Knot Theory

• Invariants of knots and manifolds
• Knotted surfaces in 4-space
• Applications of knot theory, in particular to DNA computing

Publications

• Books
• Published articles and preprints
• Maple programs

Selected Talks

• Quandle homology: computations and applications
• Algebraic structures derived from essential surfaces and foams

I served as Graduate Program Director of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
(Math Concentration), USF, 2001-2009. Files I produced for this duty are kept here.
Most are obsolete, but some may be useful.

Back to Department Faculty Page .
My picture posted there was taken by Professor Athanassios Kartsatos.
Here is an amazing picture of Athanassios taken by Rick Mabry,
who was a student of Athanasios, and has a lot of other nice pictures as well.