Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: askenderi (at) wisc (dot) edu
Office: Van Vleck 716
Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: askenderi (at) wisc (dot) edu
Office: Van Vleck 716
I am currently a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the math department at UW-Madison. My advisor is Andy Zimmer. My un-official co-advisor is Sebastian Hurtado-Salazar of Yale University. Before coming to Madison, I was an undergrad at the University of Chicago. Here is a copy of my CV.
This Fall 2025, I am on the academic job market for postdoc positions starting in Fall 2026.
For the Spring 2026 semester, I will be a Program Associate at the SLMath semester program "Geometry and Dynamics for Discrete Subgroups of Higher Rank Lie Groups," funded by a SLMath Doctoral Fellowship.
Papers:
1. Free Semigroups of Large Critical Exponent (submitted, 40 pages).
Mathematical Interests:
My mathematical interests are currently in discrete subgroups of (higher rank) Lie groups, Patterson-Sullivan theory, geometric structures on manifolds, rigidity theory, and analytic/probabilistic methods in group theory (such as random walks on reductive groups, Property (T),...).