Julia Elisenda (Eli) Grigsby

 Assistant Professor
Boston College Math Department

Research

I am a tenure-track assistant professor in the Boston College math department, studying low-dimensional
topology. I have particular interest in applications of Heegaard Floer homology to knot concordance questions and
interactions between Heegaard Floer homology and Khovanov homology.

My CV
My Papers
Modern Math Workshop slides

Teaching

Here is the syllabus for MT105, CalculusII-AP, Fall 2009.
Here is the syllabus for the undergraduate knot theory course I taught at Columbia, Fall 2008.

I co-led a 10-week research program for undergraduates with Jason Behrstock at Columbia University in the Summer of 2008.

Some of the students' final papers:
  • Amy Cen, Summary of research on variants of the Tower of Hanoi
  • So Eun Park, The group of symmetries of the Tower of Hanoi graph, to appear in the American Mathematical Monthly.
  • Michael Rand, On the Frame-Stewart Algorithm for the Tower of Hanoi
  • Ian Spafford, Tower of Hanoi research project
  • Andy Zhang, Properties of the Tower of Hanoi graph for 4 pegs

    Other Links

    A picture from Rob Kirby's 70th birthday conference at MSRI, August 2008, which I co-organized with Rob Schneiderman,
    Peter Teichner, and Kevin Walker.

    I am on the board of directors of Girls' Angle, a Cambridge, MA math club for girls.

    KEXP is a Seattle-based radio station that everyone should know about.

    mailing address:
    Eli Grigsby
    Department of Mathematics
    Boston College
    Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3806

    office: 357 Carney Hall
    fax: 617-552-3789
    phone: 617-552-9289
    email: grigsbyj(at)bc(dot)edu