I am a research group leader (W2/Associate Professor 5 year fixed term) at the Max Planck Institute for mathematics in the sciences (MPI Mis) in Leipzig. My group website is here.
I am currently on the job market.
I'm interested in surfaces, hyperbolic 3-manifolds of infinite volume, dynamics of the earthquake flow, Teichmüller theory, group actions on character varieties, convex projective geometry, bounded cohomology, and related areas.
I completed my PhD in 2019 with Kenneth Bromberg at the University of Utah. In 2019-20, I was an NSF postdoctoral research fellow at Yale University where my sponsoring scientist was Yair Minsky. I was also a member (and organizer) of the virtual MSRI program Fall 2020. I was a postdoc in Beatrice Pozzetti's research group in Heidelberg Spring 2021, and a Gibbs assistant professor at Yale 2021-2022. I was a Juniorprofessor (W1/Assistant Professor) in Heidelberg in 2022-23.
Contact me:
james.farre (at) mis.mpg.de
Upcoming Travel:
Teichmüller Theory and Beyond, Seoul, South Korea Feb. 17-21
Talk in the Young Mathematician Lecture Series, National University Singapore, March 3-7
University of Luxembourg G&T seminar, March 17-18
Manifolds and Groups in Bologna III, April 14-16
Workshop: "Leaning towards higher rank" in Pisa, April 28 to May 2
IHP program Paris, May 31 - June 28
Rick Kenyon's Birthday Conference, CIRM, Luminy June 16-20
Low dimensional phenomena: geometry and dynamics conference, IHP, Paris June 23-27
SLMath Summer School "Topological and Geometric Structures in Low Dimensions " co-teaching with Ken Bromberg, Berkeley July 21st- August 1st
Lie theory, Spectra and Dynamics, Paderborn, September 1 - 9.