# Biography

Nick Meyer is a fourth-year Mathematics graduate student at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, advised by Alex Zupan. Nick’s current interests are primarily in knot theory in dimensions 3 and 4, Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds, and trisections of 4-manifolds. He has also studied the topology of dynamical systems and low-dimensional classical matrix groups. A copy of his CV is available here.

Interests
• Geometric Topology
• Algebraic Topology
• Homological Algebra
• Computational Mathematics
• Mathematics Education and Mathematical Pedagogy
Education
• PhD in Mathematics, Expected 2023--2024

University of Nebraska, Lincoln

• MS in Mathematics, 2020

University of Nebraska, Lincoln

• BS in Mathematics with Honors, 2018

Winona State University

# Courses Taught

Current Students: Please see Canvas for more information

• Math101 — College Algebra
• Fall 2019 x1
• Math103 — College Algebra and Trigonometry
• Fall 2021 x1 (Convener)
• Math104 — Applied Calculus
• Summer 2021 x1
• Math107 — Calculus 2 (Recitations)
• Fall 2018 x2
• Spring 2019 x2
• Summer 2019 x1
• Math203(J) — Contemporary Mathematics
• Spring 2020 x1
• Fall 2020 x2
• Spring 2021 x1 (Convener)

# Selected Talks

Talks I’ve given while in graduate school:

• $4$-Manifolds Seminar at UNL:
• November 2019: “Trisections from Morse $2$-Functions”
• September 2019: “Heegaard-Kirby Diagrams for Trisections of $4$-Manifolds”
• Groups, Semigroups, and Topology Seminar at UNL:
• October 2020: “Heegaard splittings and Trisections 101: A crash course in manifold decompositions in dimensions three and four”
• October 2019: “Orderings on $3$-Manifold Groups”
• Graduate Students Talking Groups, Semigroups, and Topology Seminar at UNL:
• March 2021: “Pants: An Introduction to Oriented Cobordism Theory”
• September 2019: “An Alexander Polynomial for Knots in Thickened Surfaces”
• March 2019: “The Extension Problem for Topological Dynamical Systems via Monoid Actions”
• Graduate Student Seminar at UNL:
• April 2021: “Pants: An Introduction to Oriented Cobordism Theory”

Talks while I was an undergrad:

• April 2018: “A Study of the Invariance of Finite-dimensional measures under Group Actions”, Pi Mu Epsilon Conference, St. John’s University
• September 2017: “On the Algebra of Rotations in $\mathbb{R}^3$”, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium, Winona State University
• July 2017: “On the Algebra of Rotations in $\mathbb{R}^3$”, MAA Mathfest, Chicago, IL
• April 2017: “On the Algebra of Rotations in $\mathbb{R}^3$”, Pi Mu Epsilon Conference, St. John’s University
• April 2017: “On the Algebra of Rotations in $\mathbb{R}^3$”, MNSCU Scholars Conference, Winona State University
• March 2017: “On the Algebra of Rotations in $\mathbb{R}^3$”, CURM/MUMS Conference, Simpson College
• November 2016: “On the Algebra of Rotations in $\mathbb{R}^3$”, Pi Mu Epsilon Conference, St. Norbert College