About Me

Saman Habibi Esfahani

Education and employment:   

• Duke University, William W. Elliott Assistant Research Professor (Spring 2022 - Present), supervised by Mark Haskins.

• MSRI/SLMath, Berlekamp Endowed Postdoctoral Fellow (Fall 2022), supervised by Jason Lotay.

• UC Berkeley, Visiting Scholar (Fall 2022).

• Stony Brook University, PhD (2017-2022), supervised by Sir Simon Donaldson FRS.

Research Interests:  

• differential geometry: Calabi-Yau manifolds and special Lagrangians,

• gauge theory & geometric measure theory: compactness problems,

• symplectic & hyperkähler geometry: Floer-theoretic invariants from Fueter sections.

Miscellaneous:

• I was a member of the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy. 

• A short bio of me, written by Jason Lotay, can be found in the Emissary (MSRI newsletter) here.

• I also appeared in a short film about math Opening Doors to Mathematics at SLMath.   

Saman (dot) HabibiEsfahani (at) Duke (dot) edu