The journey of Omar Yaghi - "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth".
I will be in the Max Planck Institute, Leipzig for Summer 2026 invited by Professors Bernd Sturmfels and Anna Wienhard
Recent Events:
Women in Commutative Algebra ICMS 2026 - Edinburg, 20--26 July 2026 with Elisa Postinghel.
University of Hannover, November 2025.
Simons Center for Geometry and Physics: Modern Musings on Monopoles - October 2025
UI Chicago: Quantization and Lagrangians - September 2025
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
My sister Laura Dumitrescu (Fairfield University, US)
Current students (UNC):
Kexuan Yang and Angela East
Sebastian Filner (research discussions with Justin Sawon)
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
M.Sc May 2025 Angela East (Asymptotic Expansions in Habiro rings)
M. Sc: Spring 2022 Robert Reed Hubbard (Oper Moduli)
Reed is currently the Department Chair of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.