Surveys on my work

Sous-variétés totalement géodésiques des espaces de modules de Riemann, by Elise Goujard.

PhD Students

Current

Henry Talbott, Michigan

Former

Ben Dozier, co-advised with Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford, graduated spring 2018

Francisco Arana-Herrera, co-advised with Steven Kerckhoff, Stanford, graduated spring 2021

Bradley Zykoski, Michigan, graduated spring 2023

Chris Zhang, Michigan, graduated spring 2023

Sayantan Khan, Michigan, graduated spring 2024

Postdocs

Current

Former

Chaya Norton

Paul Apisa

Research Experience for Undergraduates

In summer 2023 I organized a REU with three undergraduates, resulting in the following paper:

Optimal connectivity results for spheres in the curve graph of low and medium complexity surfaces
By Helena Heinonen, Roshan Klein-Seetharaman, and Minghan Sun
New York Journal of Mathematics

In summer 2020 I co-organized a REU with three teams, each consisting of an undergraduate student, a graduate student, and a more senior mentor. Each team produced a paper:

Periodic points on the regular and double n-gon surfaces
By Rafael Saavedra, Chris Zhang, and Paul Apisa
Geometry Dedicata

Strongly Obtuse Rational Lattice Triangles
By Anne Larsen, Bradley Zykoski, and Chaya Norton
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms of punctured non-orientable surfaces with small stretch factor
By Caleb Partin, Sayantan Khan, and Becca Winarski
Algebraic and Geometric Topology

Here the authors are listed in increasing order of seniority (undergrad, grad, mentor).

Press

Retrospective on Maryam Mirzakhani that I wrote for Science: preprint, published version.

Quanta Magazine article on my joint work: New Shapes Solve Infinite Pool-Table Problem. Accompanying blog post: Why Mathematicians Like to Classify Things.

Not for Publication

Course notes for Math 636, on Out(F_n)

Course notes for Math 797, on coarse geometry and Teichmuller theory, including hierarchical hyperbolicity

Notes on Moduli of spatial polygons

Notes on Cubic curves

Course notes on Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces

Exercises to accompany my survey "Translation surfaces and their orbit closures"

Illumination and Security (with Kathryn Mann)

Luck's Theorem on growth of Betti numbers

Notes on Filip's proof that orbit closures are algebraic

A brief summary of Otal's proof of marked length spectrum rigidity

Deligne's Theorem on the semisimplicity of variations of Hodge structures

Smillie's Theorem on closed SL_2(R) orbits of quadratic differentials (with Ilya Gekhtman)

Topic Proposal: Translation surfaces and Teichmüller theory

Old Material

Undergraduate Projects

Chicago Informal Dynamics Seminar, 2013-2014

Reading group on the Cremona group, summer 2016