I am a third-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:
Maximal Mumford Curves from Planar Graphs
with Mario Kummer and Bernd Sturmfels
to appear in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly. arXiv:2404.11838
Wondertopes
with Sarah Brauner, Chris Eur, and Lizzie Pratt
preprint. arXiv:2403.04610
Graph curve matroids
with Alheydis Geiger and Kevin Kuehn
preprint. arXiv:2311.08332
Self-dual matroids from canonical curves
with Alheydis Geiger, Sachi Hashimoto, and Bernd Sturmfels
Experimental Mathematics 33 (2024) 701-722. arXiv:2212.05910
Moduli dimensions of lattice polygons
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
Upcoming travel:
AWM Research Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 16-18
Women+ and Mathematics Program, IAS Princeton, NJ, May 18-23
Visit at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, May 23-July 6
SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 7-11