Jack Porter

Balfour S. Jeffrey Teaching Professor

Office: 516 Snow Hall

Phone: (785) 864-4367

Fax: (785) 864-5255

E-Mail:porter@ku.edu

Research Interests

Prof. Porter mathematical interests are in general topology specializing in extensions and absolutes of Hausdorff spaces.

Selected Publications

  • Embedding in R-closed spaces (with A. Dow), Topology and its Appl., 15 (1983), 45-58.

  • Spaces with coarser minimal Hausdorff topologies (with J. Vermeer), Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 289 (1985), 59-71.

  • On Katetov spaces (with M. Tikoo), Canad. Math. Bull., 32(2) (1989), 425-433.

  • Tychonoff embedding, Recent Developments of General Topology and its Applications, Proc 1992 International Conference in Memory of Felix Hausdorff, Berlin, Germany Mathematical Research 67 (1992), 261-267.

  • Extensions of discrete spaces, Proc. 1991 Summer Conference on Topology, Madison, Wisconsin, New York Academy of Sciences 704 (1993), 290-296.

  • Subspaces of connected spaces (with R. G. Woods), Topology and its Applications 68 (1996), 113-131.