My name is Alec Payne, and I am a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at North Carolina State University. 

I am interested in differential geometry and geometric analysis, especially geometric flows, special holonomy, and classical differential geometry. 

Email: ajpayne4@ncsu.edu.

Past Positions

• Chern Postdoctoral Fellow, Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (MSRI), Fall 2024.

• Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor, Duke University, 2021 — 2024.

Education

• PhD, Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University, 2016 — 2021 (Advisor: Bruce Kleiner).

• BA, Mathematics, magna cum laude, Princeton University, 2012 — 2016.

Preprints and Publications

1. An Intersection Principle for Mean Curvature Flow, [arXiv] (with Tang-Kai Lee).

2. Closed G2-Structures with Negative Ricci Curvature, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, [article][arXiv].

3. Uniqueness of Asymptotically Conical Gradient Shrinking Solitons in G2-Laplacian Flow, Mathematische Annalen, [article] [arXiv] (with M. Haskins and I. Khan).

4. Ancient and Eternal Solutions to Mean Curvature Flow from Minimal Surfaces, Mathematische Annalen, [article] [arXiv] (with Alex Mramor).

5. Mass Drop and Multiplicity in Mean Curvature Flow, [arXiv].

6. Nonconvex Surfaces which Flow to Round Points, Communications in Analysis and Geometry, [article] [arXiv] (with Alex Mramor).

7. Warped Tori with Almost Non-Negative Scalar Curvature, Geometriae Dedicata, [article] [arXiv] (with Brian Allen, Lisandra Hernandez-Vazquez, Davide Parise, and Shengwen Wang).

Contact

Email: ajpayne4@ncsu.edu
SAS Hall, Room 4210
2311 Stinson Drive
Raleigh, NC 27607