PhD students of Don Davis

The PhD students of Donald M. Davis are as follows. Each received his PhD from Lehigh University.

Hyun-Jong Song, PhD in 1986
- thesis "On the immersion of products of projective spaces."
- Now teaching at Pukyong National University, Korea.
Kenneth Monks, PhD in 1989
- thesis "Nilpotence and torsion in the Steenrod algebra and its cohomology."
- Now teaching at University of Scranton, Scranton, PA.
Huajian Yang, PhD in 1995
- thesis "The stable homotopy types of stunted lens spaces mod 4."
- Now working for Toronto Dominion Bank, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Ismet Karaca, PhD in 1996
- thesis "Nilpotence in the mod p Steenrod algebra."
- Now teaching in Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
Vitaly Zelov, PhD in 1997
- thesis "Embeddings and immersions of real projective spaces."
- Now working for Agere Corp
Michael Fisher, PhD in 2001
- thesis "Topics in v1-periodic homotopy theory"
- Teaching at West Chester University
Thomas Shimkus, PhD in 2002
- thesis "Immersions of 2-torsion lens spaces"
- Teaching at University of Scranton
Leyla Batakci, PhD in 2002
- thesis "Cohomology of the Steenrod algebra mod nilpotents"
- Teaching at Elizabethtown College, Pa.
Katarzyna Potocka, PhD in 2004
- thesis "Number of summands in v1-periodic homotopy groups of SU(n)"
- Teaching at Ramapo College, NJ
Xiaoxue Li, PhD in 2007
- thesis "Some properties of the v1-periodic spectrum associated to exceptional Lie groups"
- Teaching at Emory & Henry College, Va.
Karen McCready, PhD in 2012
- thesis "Sharpness of exponent bounds for SU(n)
- Teaching at King's College, Pa.
Steve Scheirer, PhD in 2018
- thesis "Topological complexity of graph configuration spaces
- Will teach at Ashland University, Ohio
Bob Short, PhD in 2018
- thesis "Relative topological complexity of a pair
- will teach at John Carroll University, Ohio
Photo of birthday cake (with Adams spectral sequence and Steenrod squares) given to me by my PhD students, Katarzyna Potocka, Nasrine Bendjilali, Matt Lapadula, and Xiaoxue Li, on May 7, 2004.
Photo of me with seven of my PhD students at banquet of conference honoring my 70th birthday, May 23, 2015. Ken Monks, Huajian Yang, Tom Shimkus, Leyla Batakci, Katarzyna Potocka Kowal, Xiaoxue Li, Karen McCready. And another with all except Tom.