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Dr. Craig A. Jensen
Department of Mathematics
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA 70148
jensen@math.uno.edu




Publications



13. (with Y. Chen and H. H. Glover) Prime order subgroups of mapping class groups, preprint. (pdf.)


12. (with Y. Chen and H. H. Glover) The center of some braid groups and the Farrell cohomology of certain pure mapping class groups, Alg. and Geom. Topology 7 (2007) 1987-2006. (pdf.)


11. (with J. McCammond and J. Meier) The Euler characteristic of the Whitehead automorphism group of a free product, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 359 (2007) 2577-2595. (pdf.)


10. (with J. McCammond and J. Meier) The integral cohomology of the group of loops, Geometry and Topology 10 (2006) 759-784. (pdf.)


9. (with J. Meier) The cohomology of right angled Artin groups with group ring coefficients, Bulletin London Math. Soc. 37 (2005) 711-718. (dvi, ps, pdf.)


8. (with Y. Chen and H. H. Glover) Proper actions of automorphism groups of free products of finite groups, I. J. of Algebra and Computation 15 (2005) 255-272 (dvi, ps, pdf.)


7. (with N. Wahl) Automorphisms of free groups with boundaries, Alg. and Geom. Topology 4 (2004) 543-569 (dvi, ps, pdf.)


6. Homology of holomorphs of free groups, J. Algebra 271 (2004) 281-294 (dvi, ps, pdf.) Maple programs.


5. Stable rational cohomology of automorphism groups of free groups and the integral cohomology of moduli spaces of graphs, Publicacions Matemàtiques 46 (2002) 97-118 (dvi, ps, pdf.)


4. Contractibility of fixed point sets of auter space, Topology Appl. 119 (2002) 287-304 (dvi, ps, pdf.)


3. Cohomology of Aut(Fn) in the p-rank two case, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 158 (2001) 41-81 (dvi, ps, pdf.)


2. (with H. H. Glover) Geometry for palindromic automorphism groups of free groups, Comment. Math. Helv. 75 (2000) 644-667 (dvi, ps, pdf.)


1. Cohomology of Aut(Fn), Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell, August 1998 (dvi, ps, pdf.)


Note: Some files in dvi format don't have figures. Files in ps and pdf formats are complete.


Research Interests: Topology and Algebra.
Specifically, I am interested in geometric group theory, the cohomology of groups, and automorphism groups of free groups.


Brief CV

  • Fall 2007 - present: Associate Professor, University of New Orleans.
  • Fall 2001 - Spring 2007: Assistant Professor, University of New Orleans.
  • Fall 1998 - Spring 2001: Zassenhaus Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University.
  • Ph.D., Cornell University, 1998.
  • M.A., University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1994.
  • B.S., Utah State University, 1992.