Robion Kirby

Job title: 
Professor Emeritus
Research area: 
Bio: 
Year appointed: 1971   
Year retired:
2010
Selected Publications: 
  1. Gay, David T. and Kirby, Robion (2007). Constructing Lefschetz-type fibrations on four-manifolds. Geom. Topol. 11 2075-2115. [MR] [GS?]
  2. Kirby, Robion and Melvin, Paul (2004). Local surgery formulas for quantum invariants and the Arf invariant. In Proceedings of the Casson Fest Geom. Topol. Monogr. 7 213-233 (electronic) Geom. Topol. Publ., Coventry. [MR] [GS?]
  3. Gay, David T. and Kirby, Robion (2004). Constructing symplectic forms on 4-manifolds which vanish on circles. Geom. Topol. 8 743-777 (electronic). [MR] [GS?]
  4. Kirby, Rob (2002). Conversations about mathematics. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 49 No.3, 333-335. [MR] [GS?]
  5. Kirby, Robion C. and Taylor, Laurence R. (2001). A survey of 4-manifolds through the eyes of surgery. In Surveys on surgery theory, Vol. 2 Ann. of Math. Stud. 149 387-421 Princeton Univ. Press Princeton, NJ. [MR] [GS?]
Research interests: 

Topology of manifolds

Contact

(510) 642-0845
919 Evans Hall

Supervised Dissertations

Michael R Klug; Peter Teichner; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2021
Ka Lun Choi; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2011
Andy Wand; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2010
Jiangang Yao; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2008
Yanfeng Chen; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2007
Taiyo Inoue; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2007
Jiajun Wang; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2007
Julia Elisenda Grigsby; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2006
Huntington Tracy Hall; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2004
Lawrence P. Roberts; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2004
Tamas Kalman; Robion Kirby; Michael Hutchings
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2004
Alexandru Scorpan; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2003
Christopher Paul Tuffley; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2003
Tolga Etgu; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2002
Karen Elizabeth Edwards; Andrew J. Casson; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2001
Robert Roland Schneiderman; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2001
Stephen John Bigelow; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2000
Sungjoon Ko; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 2000
William Chen; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1999
David Thomas Gay; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1999
Blake Mellor; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1999
Deyu Tong; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1995
Graham Andrew Taylor; Robion Kirby; Tomasz Mrowka
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1994
Baozhen Yu; Robion Kirby; Tomasz Mrowka
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1994
David Warren Gomprecht; Shoshichi Kobayashi; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1993
Christopher Mark Herald; Robion Kirby; Tomasz Mrowka
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1992
Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1991
Yongbin Ruan; Robion Kirby; Shoshichi Kobayashi
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1991
Michael David Hirsch; Robion Kirby; Stephen Smale
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1990
Kevin Michael Walker; Robion Kirby; Andrew J. Casson
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1989
Tomasz Stanislaw Mrowka; Robion Kirby; Clifford Henry Taubes
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1988
Chung-Hsing Ouyang; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1988
Yan Loi Wong; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1988
Iain Roderick Aitchison; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1984
Robert Ernest Gompf; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1984
David James Schorow; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1983
Thomas Daniel Cochran; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1982
John Forbes Hughes; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1982
Daniel Ruberman; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1982
William Wyatt Menasco; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1981
Joel Hass; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1981
Cole A. Giller; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1980
Charles Livingston; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1980
John Lester Harer; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1979
Eugene Roger Apodaca; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1977
Paul Michael Melvin; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1977
David John Nordstrom; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1976
Steven Jarson Kaplan; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1976
Yusuf Selman Akbulut; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1975
Ralph David Weidner; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1975
Michael Handel; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1975
Martin George Scharlemann; Robion Kirby
PhD Thesis (Author field refers to student + advisor), 1974