Kenneth J. Shackleton

Coding; Homepage on Google; a picture of me on the moon

Parts of this site are written in Unicode and may or may not display properly, for example 大変ですね. I always welcome constructive feedback and suggestions on this site and on my work -- please feel free to write to me at the e-mail address given below.

Sometimes I go by "Ken" or "賢"

E-mail

My three initials, in usual order, followed by "2006", followed by "@alumni.soton.ac.uk". This is a permanent forwarding address

Skype

My handle begins with my first two initials, in usual order, followed by my surname. All in lower case, with no spaces

Address

University of Tokyo IPMU
5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-Ha
Kashiwa City
Chiba 277-8568
Japan

Curriculum vitae is in part available here. A full version is available in English and Japanese only upon written request

Japanese-English mathematics dictionary .pdf (with Shigeru Mizushima, although all mistakes are my own). Work in progress

Preprints and papers (visit abstracts for more details)

[1] An obstruction to the strong relative hyperbolicity of a group (with J. W. Anderson and J. Aramayona) pdf, J. Group Theory 10 No. 6 (2007) 749-756
[2] Combinatorial rigidity in curve complexes and mapping class groups pdf (correction), Pacific J. Math. 230 vol. 1 (March 2007) 217-232
[3] Uniformly exponential growth and mapping class groups of surfaces (with J. W. Anderson and J. Aramayona) pdf, Contemp. Math. 432 Amer. Math. Soc. (2007)
[4] On the distance between two Seifert surfaces of a knot (with M. Sakuma) pdf, Osaka J. Math. 46 No. 1 (March 2009) 203-221
[5] Totally geodesic subgraphs of the pants complex (with J. Aramayona and H. Parlier) pdf, Math. Res. Lett. 15 No. 2 (March 2008) 309-320
[6] Constructing convex planes in the pants complex (with J. Aramayona and H. Parlier) pdf, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (June 2009) 3523-3531
[7] An acylindricity theorem for the mapping class group pdf to appear in New York J. Math.
[8] Tightness and computing distances in the curve complex pdf (submitted)
[9] Computing distances in two pants complexes pdf (submitted)
[10] Geodesic axes in the pants complex of the five-holed sphere pdf,Topology and its Applications 158 (2011) 1640–1654, talk

Various useful links

Topology seminars at University of Tokyo and math seminars at IPMU
Preprints arXiv: Southampton mirror, eprintweb
My PhD thesis was supervised by Brian Bowditch (a.k.a. 弓溝先生). At The Queen's College, University of Oxford, I read mathematics for four years

Useful links

MathJobs.com, job listings in Mathematics
Version Tracker, with downloads and updates for Mac software

Useful applications (Mac OSX only)

Cyberduck, an open source SFTP browser
Dropbox, for backup to the cloud
Emacs, a standard text editor
Fink, porting Unix programs
Firefox, an internet browser
Fugu, an sftp application with a handy user interface
Fujitsu fi-5110E0X2 Scansnap driver
Goban, a go engine by Sen:te
i-installer
JFig
MacTex
NeoOffice, an open-source word processing package
PDFPen, edit .pdf files
Sigma Chess, a chess engine by Sigma GameWare
TeXShop, a TeX previewer using pdftex and pdflatex

Last modified September 2009. The views expressed on this page are not necessarily held by the University of Tokyo/IPMU