I am a sixth year Ph.D. candidate at UC Davis under the advisement of Abby Thompson. I am interested in low-dimensional topology, handlebody decompositions of 3- and 4-manifolds, surgeries on links, extensions of singular fibrations, and their relations with smooth and exotic structures on 4-manifolds.

I am also the Lead Host and Co-founder of the UC Davis Student Run Topology and Geometry Seminar.

You can contact me at: tdoliveirasmith (at) ucdavis (dot) edu

You can find my CV (updated October 2026) here

I will be on the job market in 2026-2027