David
Stapleton
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David Stapleton

I'm on the tenure-track job market!

Teaching

current teaching: current teaching:
Math 732: Topics in Algebraic Geometry: Cubic Hypersurfaces

previous course websites: S23:ToA · S22:AGII · F21:Calc1 · S20:Calc3 · F20:Calc3

Bio

I am a postdoc in algebraic geometry at the University of Michigan. I was previously a postdoc at UC San Diego and I received my PhD from Stony Brook University.

Publications

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The fibering genus of Fano hypersurfaces,
joint with Nathan Chen, Benjamin Church, and Lena Ji.
submitted (2023).
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The minimal fibering degree of a toric variety equals the lattice width of its polytope,
joint with Audric Lebovitz.
submitted (2023).
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Minimal degree fibrations in curves and the asymptotic degree of irrationality of divisors,
joint with Jake Levinson and Brooke Ullery.
submitted (2023).
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Smooth limits of plane curves of prime degree and Markov numbers,
joint with Kristin DeVleming.
submitted (2022).
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Fano hypersurfaces with no finite order birational automorphisms,
joint with Nathan Chen and Lena Ji.
submitted (2022).
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Higher index Fano varieties with finitely many birational automorphisms,
joint with Nathan Chen.
Compositio (2022).
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Rational endomorphisms of Fano hypersurfaces,
joint with Nathan Chen.
accepted at Selecta (2023).
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A direct proof that toric rank 2 bundles on projective space split.
Mathematica Scandinavica (2020).
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Maximal Chow constant and cohomologically constant fibrations,
joint with Kristin DeVleming.
Commun. in Contemporary Math. (2020).
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Fano hypersurfaces with arbitrarily large degrees of irrationality,
joint with Nathan Chen.
Forum of Math., Sigma (2020).
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The degree of irrationality of hypersurfaces in various Fano varieties,
joint with Brooke Ullery.
Manuscripta Mathematica (2019).
pdf The degree of irrationality of very general hypersurfaces in some homogeneous spaces.
PhD thesis, Stony Brook Univ. (2017).
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The tangent space of the punctual Hilbert scheme,
joint with Dori Bejleri.
Mich. Math Journal (2017).
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Geometry and stability of tautological bundles on Hilbert schemes of points.
Algebra and Number Theory (2016).