About me

I am a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at the University of York, working under the supervision of Chris Bowman on diagrammatic algebra and categorification.

My research interests lie in combinatorial and diagrammatic approaches to problems in categorical Representation Theory and other related areas. Things I like working on include Hecke algebras and the Hecke category, Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials, KLR algebras and Temperley-Lieb algebras.

You can find more details about my past work and current projects on my Research tab.

Before coming to York, I completed my BSc at King's College London and Part III at the University of Cambridge, where I wrote a Part III essay titled "Modular Representations of Finite Groups of Lie Type" with Stuart Martin. 

You can get in touch with me by email via ben.mills [at] york.ac.uk