I am a second-year graduate student in mathematics at Brown University. My advisors are Melody Chan and Bernd Sturmfels. Before this, I was an undergraduate student in mathematics and computer science at Harvard University. I am currently supported by a Brown University Presidential Fellowship.


I am interested in combinatorial algebraic geometry. I like moduli spaces of algebraic curves, both classical and tropical. I also like to think about toric geometry and positive geometries.


Here is my CV.



Contact: raluca_vlad [at] brown [dot] edu


Address: Kassar House, Brown University

    Providence, RI 02912

Publications and preprints:

with Sarah Brauner, Chris Eur, and Lizzie Pratt

preprint. arXiv:2403.04610


with Alheydis Geiger and Kevin Kuehn

preprint. arXiv:2311.08332


with Alheydis Geiger, Sachi Hashimoto, and Bernd Sturmfels

to appear in Experimental Mathematics. arXiv:2212.05910 


with Marino Echavarria, Max Everett, Shinyu Huang, Liza Jacoby, Ralph Morrison, Ayush K. Tewari, and Ben Weber

Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics 55, 559-589 (2022). arXiv:2010.13135

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