Our group

Graduate Students:

Andrew Adair defended his thesis “Categorification of braid group representations” in April 2024. He has accepted a position as a mathematician at the Department of Defense.

Luke Conners is a 5th year PhD student, currently working on colored triply-graded link homology. Here’s his paper Row-Column Mirror Symmetry for Colored Torus Knot Homology.

Logan Gray is a 3rd year PhD student, currently working on link homology in type B.

Alumni:

Lily Gergle defended her honors thesis Categorification techniques for Temperley–Lieb category and Web(sp(4)) in Spring 2021. Lily completed Part III at the University of Cambridge in 2022 and is currently a PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Dylan O’Connor defended his honors thesis, An introduction to the volume conjecture, in Spring 2020. Dylan is currently a PhD student at the CUNY graduate center.

Logan Tatham defended his PhD thesis, On the quantum type C spider, in Spring 2020. Our joint publications are here, here, and here (the latter two also joint with Bodish and Elias). Logan is currently a mathematician at the Department of Defense.

Gillian Taylor defended her honors thesis 3-Manifold Invariants in the Category Web(sp(4)) in Spring 2022. Read a Q&A with Gillian here.

Abby Watkins defended her honors thesis on traces of the Temperley-Lieb category in Spring 2021. Abby is currently a PhD student at the University of Indiana.