Research

My research interests are in the fields of hyperbolic geometry, low-dimensional topology, and Teichmüller theory. I'm particularly interested in topics concerning counting curves and geodesics on surfaces as well as geodesic currents. 

All my papers are on the ArXiv

Papers

Preprints:

[-] On the distribution of the components of multicurves of given type (with J. Souto)

(preprint, 2024) [ArXiv]

[-] Mirzakhani's curve counting: from simple to all  (with J. Souto)

(preprint, 2022) (reworked version of a 2019 research announcement) [ArXiv]

Book: 

[*] Mirzakhani's Curve Counting and Geodesic Currents (with Juan Souto

Birkhäuser's Progress in Mathematics series, volume 345, 2022 

(See here for the first few pages and here for the published version) 

Published/Accepted Papers:

[19] Counting geodesics of given commutator length (with J. Souto)

Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, Volume 11, (2023), 47pp. (2023) [ArXiv]

[18] Counting and equidistribution of reciprocal geodesics and dihedral groups (with J. Souto

Accepted for publication in IMRN (2023) [ArXiv]  

[17] Mapping class group orbit closures for non-orientable surfaces (with M. Gendulphe, I. Pasquinelli, and J. Souto

     Geometric and Functional Analysis (GAFA), 33 (2023), 637-693  [ArXiv]

[16] Distribution in the unit tangent bundle of the geodesics of given type (with J. Souto)

     Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 43 (2023), 887-903 [ArXiv]

[15] Ergodic invariant measures on the space of geodesic currents (with G. Mondello)

    Annales l'Institut Fourier,  72 (2022),  2449-2513. [ArXiv

[14] Hyperbolic cone metrics and billiards (with C. Leininger and C. Sadanand

     Advances in Mathematics, 409 (2022), 74p.  [ArXiv]

[13] Counting curves on orbifolds  (with J. Souto)

Trans. of the London Math. Soc., 9 (2022), 56-85 [ArXiv]

[12] You can hear the shape of a billiard table: Symbolic dynamics and rigidity for flat surfaces (with M. Duchin, C. Leininger, and C. Sadanand)

    Commenttarii Mathematici Helvetici, 96 (2021), no. 3, 421-463 [ArXiv]

[11] Genericity of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes, when seen as mapping classes (with J. Souto and J. Tao)

       L'Enseignement Mathématique, 66 (2020) , no 3-4, 419-439 [ArXiv]

[10] Short closed geodesics with self-intersections (with H. Parlier

    Math. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Soc. 169 (2020), no. 3, 623-638 [ArXiv]

[9] Length functions on currents and applications to dynamics and counting (with C. Uyanik)

   In the Tradition of Thurston, Springer, (2020), 423-458 [ArXiv]

[8] Counting curves, and the stable length of currents (with H. Parlier and J. Souto

    Jour. of the Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS), 22 (2020), no. 6, 1675-1702  [ArXiv]

[7] A remark on the word length in surface groups

    Trans. of the Amer. Math. Soc. (TAMS), 327 (2019), no. 1,  441–455 [ArXiv]

[6] Simplicial embeddings of multicurve graphs (with F. Fanoni)

      Michigan Math. Journal 66 (2017), no. 3, 549-567 [ArXiv]

[5] Counting Curves in Hyperbolic Surfaces (with J. Souto)

      Geometric and Functional Analysis (GAFA) 26 (2016), no. 3, 729-777 [ArXiv]

[4] On Margulis cusps of hyperbolic 4-manifolds (with S. Zakeri)

     Geometriae Dedicata 174 (2015) 75-103 [ArXiv]

[3] A discreteness criterion for groups containing screw translations (with S. Zakeri)

     Contemporary Math. - Geometry Groups and Dynamics, 639 (2015) 235-242 [ArXiv]

[2] The Margulis region and screw parabolic elements of bounded type

      Bull. of the London Math. Soc, 45 (2013), no. 6, 1209-1220 [ArXiv]

[1] Tame homomorphisms of polytopal rings

      Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie, 49 (2008), no. 2, 315-323 [ArXiv

PhD Thesis:

The Margulis region in hyperbolic 4-space (City University of New York, 2013)

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