About Me

I am on the job market this Fall 2026. Here is my CV.

Hello! I'm Nancy (she/her), a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Mathematics at UC Berkeley. I am advised by Michael Hutchings. I took my Qualifying Examination in the 2024 Spring semester. Before attending Berkeley, I obtained a Bachelor's degree at the University of Edinburgh and a Master's degree from Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

I am interested in low-dimensional symplectic topology. In particular, I study Floer-theoretic invariants for knots in certain 3-manifolds.

You can reach me by email at nm.eagles@berkeley.edu or in my office, located at 737 Evans Hall.

For a snapshot of the kind of math I like, take a look at my slides from a talk I recently gave!

Recent Activities

2026:

November: Giving a talk at the Dept of Mathematics at UC Davis (UC Davis)
October: Giving a talk at the IAS's Symplectic Seminar (IAS, Princeton)
August: Participated in WiSCon 2026 Research Workshop Group 6 (IPAM, UCLA)
August: UC Berkeley Teaching Conference - Quantitatives Workshop Leader (UC Berkeley)
July: Attended and gave a talk at Kylerec 2026 (Killington, Vermont)
June: Attended and gave a lightning talk at the Geometry and Topology in Low Dimensions Conference (Erdős Center, Budapest, Hungary)
June: Invariants of Legendrian Knots in Thickened Convex Surfaces (EDGE seminar, University of Edinburgh, UK)

Past Activities

2025:

May: Attended the Georgia International Topology Conference (Athens, Georgia)
Spring: Organized a student learning seminar on symplectic and contact constructions. (UC Berkeley)
January: UC Berkeley Teaching Conference - Quantitatives Workshop Leader (UC Berkeley)
January: Attended the JMM 2025 (Seattle, Washington)

2024:

November: The Arnold Chord Conjecture in 3 Dimensions ([st3ms] Seminar, UC Berkeley)
October: Knot surgeries in contact topology ([st3ms] Seminar, UC Berkeley)
January - April: Studying for my Qualifying Exams. My syllabus can be found here.

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