Cotton Seed
Princeton University
Department of Mathematics
410 Fine Hall
Princeton NJ 08544
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(617) 407-4273
cseed@princeton.edu
Education
(In progress) Ph.D. Mathematics, Princeton University.
B.S. Mathematics, MIT, 2009.
Preprints and Publications
A Link Splitting Spectral Sequence in sl(3) Link Homology, with J. Batson. In preparation.
A Link Splitting Invariant of Tangles, with J. Batson. In preparation.
Szabó’s Geometric Spectral Sequence for Tangles and Equivariant Fukaya Categories, with J. Baldwin.
In preparation.
Twisting Szabó’s Geometric Spectral Sequence. In preparation.
Slicing Planar Knot Diagrams: A New Extension of Khovanov Homology to Tangles. In preparation.
A Link Splitting Spectral Sequence in Khovanov Homology, with J. Batson, arXiv:1303.6240. Submitted.
Computations of the Lipshitz-Sarkar Steenrod Square in Khovanov Homology, arXiv:1210.1882.
Computations of Szabó’s Geometric Spectral Sequence in Khovanov Homology, arXiv:1110.0735v1.
Curl: A Gentle-slope Language for the Web, with M. Hostetter, D. Kranz, C. Terman, S. Ward. World
Wide Web Journal 2 (2): 121–134 (1997).
Invited Conference Talks
Topology, Geometry and Group Theory, Informed by Experiment, Institute for Computational and
Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Brown University, October 2013.
Knots in Washington XXXV, George Washington University, December 2012.
Knots in Washington XXXIII, George Washington University, December 2011.
Invited Seminar Talks
MIT, Geometry and Topology Seminar, March 2013.
Brandeis University, Topology Seminar, March 2013.
California Institute of Technology, Geometry and Topology Seminar, November 2012.
Princeton University, Topology Seminar, October 2012.
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Columbia University, Symplectic Geometry, Gauge Theory, and Categorification Seminar, April 2012.
Columbia University, Seminar on Categorical Braid Group Actions, April 2012.
MIT, Geometry and Topology Seminar, March 2012.
Institut Henri Poincaré, Program on Geometry and Analysis of Surface Group Representations, Doc
Seminar, January 2012.
Teaching
Assistant Instructor for MAT 201 Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2012.
Teaching Assistant for MAT 201 Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2011.
Teaching Assistant for MAT 203 Advanced Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2010.
Awards and Honors
2011 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention.
Patents
Apparatus and method for automatically parallelizing network applications through pipelining transformation, with J. Dai, L. Harrison, B. Huang, L. Long. Patent pending.
Compiler with two phase bi-directional scheduling framework for pipelined processors, with J. Dai, B.
Huang, L. Harrison. Patent pending.
Apparatus and method for an automatic thread-partition compiler, with J. Dai, L. Harrison, B. Huang,
L. Long. Patent pending.
Apparatus and method for automatically parallelizing network applications through pipelining transformation, with J. Dai, L. Harrison, B. Huang, L. Long. U.S. Patent 7,793,276.
Method and system for assigning register class through efficient dataflow analysis, with B. Huang, J.
Dai. U.S. Patent 7,634,767.
Live set transmission in pipelining applications, with J. Dai, L. Harrison, B. Huang. U.S. Patent
7,581,214.
Method and apparatus for optimizing code, with L. Harrison. U.S. Patent 7,140,006.
Method and apparatus for doing program analysis, with L. Harrison. U.S. Patent 7,117,490.
Method and system for type demotion of expressions and variables by bitwise constant propagation,
with L. Harrison. U.S. Patent 7,032,215.
Method and system for bidirectional bitwise constant propogation by abstract interpretation, with L.
Harrison. U.S. Patent 6,848,099.
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References
Zoltan Szabó, Princeton University.
Peter Ozsváth, Princeton University.
David Gabai, Princeton University.
Last updated: April 17, 2013