🥰The journey of Omar Yaghi - "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth".

🥰 My sister Laura Dumitrescu (Fairfield University, US.

🥰I will be in the Max Planck Institute, Leipzig for Summer 2026 invited by Professors Bernd Sturmfels and Anna Wienhard 

Recent Events

• Moduli and Friends II, Institute of Mathematics of Romanian Academy, Aug 2026 - Cristina Angel, Martin Palmer, Anca Macinic, Geoffoy Horel.

• Women in Commutative Algebra ICMS 2026 - Edinburg, 20--26 July 2026 - Group leader with Elisa Postinghel.

• University of Hannover, November 2025 - invited by Isabel Stenger.

• Modern Musings on Monopoles, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics - October 2025.

• Quantization and Lagrangians, UI Chicago: September 2025 ( by Laura Schaposnik).

Current Position:

• Associate Professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Algebra, Geometry and Topology AGT group

• Member of IMAR Institute of Mathematics Bucharest: Differential Geometry and Algebraic Topology group

Current students (UNC):  

• Graduate: Kexuan Yang and Sebastian Filner (research discussions with Justin Sawon).

• Undergraduate: George Zhang.

UNC Graduate Students:

• Ph. D Fall 2024  William Davis (Frobenius-like algebras, colored ribbon graphs and Extensions of TQFTs)

During his studies William received an UNC University award 2024 here, a Research Stay 2023 and Math Departmental Award 2022.

William has been an Adjunct Teaching Assistant Professor in UNC since 2025.

• M.Sc  May 2025 Angela East (Asymptotic Expansions in Habiro rings). 

Angela is currently an UNC graduate student and a Math Instructor in the Central Carolina Community College.

• M. Sc: Spring 2022 Robert Reed Hubbard  (Oper Moduli) 

Reed is a Math Instructor in North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham. He was the Department Chair in NCSSM, Morganton.