Welcome to the homepage of Roland van der Veen,  PhD student mathematics in

the research group of prof. dr. Eric Opdam at the KdV Institute, University of Amsterdam

and the national cluster Geometry and Quantum Theory.   email: R.I.vanderVeen (at) uva (dot) nl    

Research:

The geometry and topology of knots and 3-manifolds and their relations with other parts of mathematics.
More specifically I'm looking at the relations between quantum knot invariants and the geometry of the knot complement.
Currently I'm working on the the volume conjecture. Publications

Agenda:

Tokyo January 2010

Past conferences

Seminars and Teaching:

Representation theory (Dutch)

Past teaching

Other:

Build your own octahedron in less than 5 minutes. Veelvlakken (under construction).

Links

last modified 20 Aug 2009