Allison H. Moore

Research Interests:

• low-dimensional topology
• geometric topology
• knot theory
• applied topology / DNA topology
• quantum invariants of knots and three-manifolds
• Heegaard Floer homology
• Khovanov homology
• AI and mathematical pedagogy

My work has been supported by the Jeffress Trust Award in Interdisciplinary Research and the National Science Foundation, DMS–2204148.

Bio:

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth University, and member of the Geometry Group at VCU. Prior to arriving at VCU, I was a Krener Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Davis from 2016-2019. For two of those years, I also held a joint appointment as a postdoc in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, collaborating with the Topological Molecular Biology lab. From 2013-2016, I was an RTG Lovett Instructor of Mathematics at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. I worked in low-dimensional topology. I received my Ph.D. in 2013 at The University of Texas under the direction of Cameron Gordon.

Miscellany:

• My Erdos number is 4.

• Through my Ph.D. advisor, Cameron Gordon, I can trace my mathematical lineage to Zeeman, Lefshetz, Jacobi, Copernicus, Regiomontanus, Gemistus Pletho, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, and Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi (c. 1135~!) to name a few.

You can check your own Erdos number and mathematical lineage at MathSciNet.