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:
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
to appear in Experimental Mathematics. 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:
Visit at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, January-March 2024
15th polymake conference, TU Berlin, 2 February 2024 (website)
Positive Geometry in Particle Physics and Cosmology, MPI Leipzig, 12-16 February 2024 (website)
A Panorama of Moduli Spaces, Goethe University Frankfurt, 26 February - 1 March 2024 (website)