Research

I work in Physical Knot Theory, a combination of traditional Topological Knot Theory with the reality of tying knots with physical materials.

Research related links:

• Preprints and published papers
• Curriculum vitae
• My data page
• My ResearchGate page
• My Google Scholars page
• My ORCID page
• My Publons page
• My Elsevier Mendeley page
• My LinkedIn page
• Our knots in the news
  • Biophysical Society blog post on Pi day 2015
  • Wired article about our work on knotted proteins
  • A magazine article in Cabinet (in an interview with Ken Millett)
  • An editorial article in the LA Times

About Me

Positions Held

• I am currently a Full Professor at the University of St. Thomas.
• I was at Duquesne (pronounced `doo-cane') University from 2001-2005 as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and from 2005-2006 as an Associate Professor.
• I was at Chatham College from 1997-2001 as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

Education

• I was in graduate school (1992-1997) getting my Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Iowa.
• I was an undergraduate (1988-1992) at St. Olaf College (um yah yah!).
• Prior to that, I was in high school, junior high, elementary school, unschooled, and not yet born. I am not aware of any prior lives (although I'm a big fan of the Albert Brooks movie Defending Your Life which has a wonderful scene about prior lives).

Professional Links

Mathematics

• American Mathematical Society
• Mathematical Association of America
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Knot Theory and Knot Manipulation Software

• Rob Scharein's KnotPlot site (a must see, plenty of info on knots and download information for the software KnotPlot)
• Charles Livingston's KnotInfo
• Dror Bar-Natan's Knot Atlas

Communication

Email: ejrawdon [at] stthomas.edu or my first name followed by my last name [at] gmail.com University Mail: Eric Rawdon University of St. Thomas 2115 Summit Ave. St. Paul, MN 55105 USA Office Phone (kind of phonetically): (sicks fife juan) nein sicks too - fife fife fife ate