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

Starting in Fall 2026, I will be an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Williams College.

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. The spacetime positive mass theorem with multiple time dimensions, [arXiv] (with S. Hirsch and Y. Zhang).

2. A parabolic flow for the large volume heterotic G2 system, [arXiv] (with M. Garcia-Fernandez, A. Moreno, and J. Streets).

3. An intersection principle for mean curvature flow, [arXiv] (with T.-K. Lee).

4. Closed G2-Structures with negative Ricci curvature, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, [article][arXiv].

5. Uniqueness of asymptotically conical gradient shrinking solitons in G2-Laplacian flow, Mathematische Annalen, [article] [arXiv] (with M. Haskins and I. Khan).

6. Ancient and eternal solutions to mean curvature flow from minimal surfaces, Mathematische Annalen, [article] [arXiv] (with A. Mramor).

7. Mass drop and multiplicity in mean curvature flow, [arXiv].

8. Nonconvex surfaces which flow to round points, Communications in Analysis and Geometry, [article] [arXiv] (with A. Mramor).

9. Warped tori with almost non-negative scalar curvature, Geometriae Dedicata, [article] [arXiv] (with B. Allen, L. Hernandez-Vazquez, D. Parise, and S. Wang).

Contact

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