Dennis Sweeney

I'm a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics at The Ohio State University.

I'm interested in algebraic topology, semigroup theory, and computer science.

My advisor is Sanjeevi Krishnan.

Github

My OSU page

Google Scholar

Mastodon

ORCiD

Research

• Homotopy Types of Small Semigroups [arXiv]
  by Dennis Sweeney.
  Submitted February 2025.
• Regular isotopy classes of link diagrams from Thompson’s groups. [Journal, arXiv]
  by Rushil Raghavan and Dennis Sweeney.
  Published 2023 in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications.
• Graphical Optimization of Spectral Shift Reconstructions for Optical Backscatter Reflectometry. [Journal]
  by Daniel C. Sweeney, Dennis M. Sweeney, and Christian M. Petrie.
  Published 2021 in Sensors.

Software

• I've contributed as a Core Developer to the Python programming language and its standard implementation CPython.
• Homology Calculator for the browser.
• Künneth Theorem/Universal Coefficients calculator python script
• multimerge, a Python package implementing a multi-way merge algorithm.
• bitalign, a Python package for finding how two bitstrings best line up.
• Data and programs for computing homology of monoids and semigroups (unpolished).
• Data and programs for computing with knots from Thompson's group (unpolished).