C.-M. Michael Wong with a white shirt and black vest.
C.-M. Michael Wong
Assistant Professor

A.B. (Princeton)
Ph.D. (Columbia)

Room
STM 627
Phone
(613) 562-5800 ext. 3494

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Biography

Professor Wong studies topology using geometric and algebraic tools. His work explores the connections among low-dimensional topology, contact geometry, Floer theory, and categorification. He joined the University of Ottawa in 2023 after postdoctoral positions at Louisiana State University and Dartmouth College. He completed his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2017.

Selected publications

  • C.-M. Michael Wong and Sarah Zampa, Lecture notes on Heegaard Floer homology, Singularities and Low Dimensional Topology, Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies, vol. 30, Springer Cham, 2024, to appear.
  • Aliakbar Daemi, Tye Lidman, David Shea Vela-Vick, and C.-M. Michael Wong, Ribbon homology cobordisms, Advances in Mathematics 408 (2022), 108580, 68 pages.
  • David Shea Vela-Vick and C.-M. Michael Wong, An unoriented skein relation via bordered–sutured Floer homology, Journal of Symplectic Geometry 19 (2021), no. 6, 1495–1561.
  • John A. Baldwin, Tye Lidman, and C.-M. Michael Wong, Lagrangian cobordisms and the Legendrian invariants in knot Floer homology, Michigan Mathematical Journal 71 (2022), no. 1, 145–175.
  • Ina Petkova and C.-M. Michael Wong, Skein relations for tangle Floer homology, Quantum Topology 11 (2020), no. 1, 119–225.

Research Group

  • Geometry and Topology

Research interests

  • Low-dimensional topology
  • Floer theory and categorification
  • Contact geometry