My research interests are in low-dimensional topology, with an emphasis on 3-manifolds, foliations, laminations, and knot theory.

You may request reprints/preprints at: roberts@math.wustl.edu

Publications

1. Constructing taut foliations, Comment. Math. Helv. 70 (1995), 516 - 545.

2. Graph manifolds and taut foliations, (with M. Brittenham and R. Naimi), J. Diff. Geom. 45 (1997), 446 - 470.

3. Exceptional Seifert group actions on R, (with M. Stein), J.K.T.R. 8(2) (1999), 241 - 247. ps

4. Alternating knots satisfy strong property P, (with C. Delman), Comment. Math. Helv. 74(3) (1999), 376 - 397.

5. When incompressible tori meet essential laminations, (with M. Brittenham), Pac. J. Math. 190(1) (1999), 21 - 40.

6. Group actions on order trees, (with M. Stein), Top. Appl. 115 (2001), 175-201.

7. Taut foliations in punctured surface bundles, I, Proc. L.M.S. (3) 82 (2001), 747-768.

8. Taut foliations in punctured surface bundles, II, Proc. L.M.S. (3) 83 (2001), 443-471.

9. Infinitely many hyperbolic 3-manifolds which contain no Reebless foliation, with J. Shareshian and M. Stein, to appear in J.A.M.S. ps