I am an Associate Professor in the UNC Department of Mathematics, and am broadly interested in low-dimensional topology, representation theory, homological algebra, category theory, and their interactions. At the moment, I’m particular interested in (higher) TQFTs derived from link homology and in link homology theories associated with non type A representation theory.
My office is Phillips 302, and my email is my first and last names @unc.edu. My work is currently supported by NSF CAREER Grant DMS-2144463 and my CV can be found here.
News:
- My student Luke Conners defended his PhD dissertation “Colored Torus Link Homology” on 2/12/25. He has accepted a postdoctoral position at Universitat Zurich (UZH), where he will work with Anna Beliakova. Congrats Luke!
- Luke Conners was recently awarded the 2024 International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) GTA Silver Award.
- Luke Conners’s paper Row-Column Mirror Symmetry for Colored Torus Knot Homology was accepted at Selecta Mathematica.
- New preprint: Spin Link Homology, joint with Elijah Bodish and Ben Elias.
- My former student Logan Tatham and I were awarded the G. de B. Robinson Award by the Canadian Mathematical Society.
- New preprint: Bordered invariants from Khovanov homology, joint with Matt Hogancamp and Paul Wedrich.
A note on travel:
I affirm the right to choose (i.e. for women to make decisions about their health and body). In light of recent actions taken by radicals on the US Supreme Court, I will decline any invitation to travel to speak in a state where abortion is illegal or unduly restricted.