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
Starting in September 2026, I will be a postdoc of Mikołaj Frączyk at the Dioscuri Centre "Random Walks in Geometry and Topology" at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
I completed my Ph.D. in the math department at UW-Madison under the supervision of Andy Zimmer and Sebastian Hurtado-Salazar. Prior to studying in Madison, I was an undergrad at the University of Chicago.
Here is a copy of my CV.
Statement on abstaining from the use of AI: I believe artificial intelligence (AI) poses extreme threats, both to humanity as a whole, and to the integrity, meritocracy, and human aspect of mathematics. Consequently, I do not, nor do I plan to, use AI in any form in my mathematical works.
Papers:
3. Rigidity of proper holomorphic maps between balls with Hölder boundary regularity (joint with Kyle Huang, Jinwoo Park, Jaan Amla Srimurthy, Andrew Zimmer, and Rou Wen)
Submitted, 20 pages. MXM project!
2. Asymptotically large free semigroups in Zariski dense discrete subgroups of Lie groups
Submitted, 39 pages.
1. Free semigroups of large critical exponent
Journal of Topology, Vol. 19 (2026), no. 3, Paper No. e70087, (47 pages).
Mathematical Interests:
My mathematical interests are in geometry and dynamics, particularly discrete subgroups of higher rank Lie groups. Recently, I have been especially interested in understanding asymptotic properties of discrete subgroups of Lie groups and the representation theory of semisimple Lie groups.
Other:
My thesis (essentially a combination of papers (1) and (2) above).