Breadcrumb People / Robert Lipshitz Professor of Mathematics, University of Oregon Robert Lipschitz is a faculty member in the Mathematics Department at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on applications of symplectic geometry, homological algebra, and algebraic topology to low-dimensional topology. Dr. Lipschitz is one of the CRG Leaders for the PIMS CRG in Novel Techniques in Low Dimension: Floer Homology, Representation Theory and Algebraic Topology.