Staff profile
Overview
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Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Associate Professor, Topology in the Department of Mathematical Sciences | MCS3050 |
Research interests
- Topology of manifolds
Research groups
- Pure Mathematics
- Pure Mathematics: Topology
Awarded Grants
- 2021: EPSRC New Investigator Grant: Classifying 4-Manifolds.
- 2021: EPSRC New Horizons Grant: Symmetries of 4-Manifolds.
Publications
Edited book
- Behrens, Stefan, Kalmar, Boldizsar, Kim, Min Hoon, Powell, Mark & Ray, Arunima (2021). The disc embedding theorem. Oxford University Press.
Journal Article
- Feller, Peter, Park, Junghwan & Powell, Mark (2022). The Z-Genus of Boundary Links. Revista Matemática Complutense
- Kaprowski, Daniel, Powell, Mark & Teichner, Peter (2022). Four-manifolds up to connected sum with complex projective planes. American Journal of Mathematics 144(1): 75-118.
- Feller, Peter, Miller, Allison N., Nagel, Matthias, Orson, Patrick, Powell, Mark & Ray, Arunima (2021). Embedding spheres in knot traces. Compositio Mathematica 157(10): 2242-2279.
- Conway, Anthony & Powell, Mark (2021). Characterisation of homotopy ribbon discs. Advances in Mathematics 391: 107960.
- Friedl, Stefan, Lewark, Lukas, Kitayama, Takahiro, Nagel, Matthias & Powell, Mark (2021). Homotopy ribbon concordance, Blanchfield pairings, and twisted Alexander polynomials. Canadian Journal of Mathematics 1-40.
- Cha, Jae Choon, Miller, Allison N. & Powell, Mark (2021). Two-solvable and two-bipolar knots with large four-genera. Mathematical Research Letters 28(2): 331-382.
- Kim, Min Hoon, Powell, Mark & Teichner, Peter (2021). The round handle problem. Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly 17(1): 237-247.
- Orson, Patrick & Powell, Mark (2021). A lower bound for the doubly slice genus from signatures. New York Journal of Mathematics 27: 379-392.
- Orson, Patrick & Powell, Mark (2021). Doubly slice knots and metabelian obstructions. Journal of Topology and Analysis
- Friedl, Stefan & Powell, Mark (2020). Homotopy ribbon concordance and Alexander polynomials. Archiv der Mathematik 115(6): 717-725.
- Miller, Allison N. & Powell, Mark (2019). Stabilization distance between surfaces. L'Enseignement Mathematique 65(3/4): 397-440.
- Davis, Christopher William, Nagel, Matthias, Orson, Patrick & Powell, Mark (2020). Triple linking numbers and surface systems. Indiana University Mathematics Journal 69(7): 2505-2547.
- Cha, Jae Choon, Kim, Min Hoon & Powell, Mark (2020). A family of freely slice good boundary links. Mathematische Annalen 376(3-4): 1009-1030.
- Cha, Jae Choon, Orr, Kent & Powell, Mark (2020). Whitney towers and abelian invariants of knots. Mathematische Zeitschrift 294(1-2): 519–553.
- Miller, Allison N. & Powell, Mark (2018). Symmetric chain complexes, twisted Blanchfield pairings, and knot concordance. Algebraic and Geometric Topology 18(6): 3425-3475.
- Friedl, Stefan, Nagel, Matthias, Orson, Patrick & Powell, Mark (2019). Satellites and concordance of knots in 3-manifolds. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 371(4): 2279-2306.
- Nagel, Matthias, Orson, Patrick, Park, JungHwan & Powell, Mark (2019). Smooth and topological almost concordance. International Mathematics Research Notices 2019(23): 7324-7355.
- Friedl, Stefan, Leidy, Constance, Nagel, Matthias & Powell, Mark (2017). Twisted Blanchfield pairings and decompositions of 3-manifolds. Homology, homotopy and applications 19(2): 275-287.
- Kasprowski, Daniel, Land, Markus, Powell, Mark & Teichner, Peter (2017). Stable classification of 4-manifolds with 3-manifold fundamental groups. Journal of Topology 10(3): 827-881.
- Cochran, Tim D., Harvey, Shelly & Powell, Mark (2017). Grope metrics on the knot concordance set. Journal of Topology 10(3): 669-699.
- Nagel, Matthias & Powell, Mark (2017). Concordance Invariance of Levine-Tristram Signatures of Links. Documenta Mathematica 22: 25-43.
- Cha, Jae Choon, Friedl, Stefan & Powell, Mark (2017). Splitting Numbers of Links. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society 60(03): 587-614.
- Friedl, Stefan & Powell, Mark (2017). A Calculation of Blanchfield Pairings of 3-Manifolds and Knots. Moscow Mathematical Journal 17(1): 59-77.
- Powell, Mark (2016). Twisted Blanchfield Pairings and Symmetric Chain Complexes. The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
- Powell, Mark (2017). The four-genus of a link, Levine–Tristram signatures and satellites. Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications 26(02): 1740008.
- Borodzik, Maciej, Friedl, Stefan & Powell, Mark (2016). Blanchfield forms and Gordian distance. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan 68(3): 1047-1080.
- Cha, Jae Choon & Powell, Mark (2016). Casson towers and slice links. Inventiones mathematicae 205(2): 413-457.
- Friedl, Stefan, Nagel, Matthias & Powell, Mark (2014). A specious unlinking strategy. Periodica Mathematica Hungarica 69(2): 207-210.
- Cha, Jae Choon & Powell, Mark (2014). Nonconcordant links with homology cobordant zero-framed surgery manifolds. Pacific Journal of Mathematics 272(1): 1-33.
- Kasprowski, Daniel & Powell, Mark (2014). Shrinking of toroidal decomposition spaces. Fundamenta Mathematicae 227(3): 271-296.
- Borodzik, Maciej & Powell, Mark (2016). Embedded Morse Theory and Relative Splitting of Cobordisms of Manifolds. The Journal of Geometric Analysis 26(1): 57-87.
- Cha, Jae Choon & Powell, Mark (2014). Covering link calculus and the bipolar filtration of topologically slice links. Geometry & Topology 18(3): 1539-1579.
- Cha, Jae Choon, Friedl, Stefan & Powell, Mark (2014). Concordance of links with identical Alexander invariants. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 46(3): 629-642.
- Friedl, Stefan & Powell, Mark (2014). Links not concordant to the Hopf link. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 156(03): 425-459.
- Friedl, Stefan & Powell, Mark (2014). Cobordisms to weakly splittable links. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 142(2): 703-712.
- Balm, Cheryl, Friedl, Stefan, Kalfagianni, Efstratia & Powell, Mark (2012). Cosmetic crossings and Seifert matrices. Communications in Analysis and Geometry 20(2): 235.
- Powell, Mark (2012). A second order algebraic knot concordance group. Algebraic & Geometric Topology 12(2): 685.
- Friedl, Stefan & Powell, Mark (2012). An injectivity theorem for Casson-Gordon type representations relating to the concordance of knots and links. Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society 49(2): 395.