Christopher Loa

I'm a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My advisor is Christopher J. Leininger. I'm interested in geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology, and mapping class groups. You can reach me at loa2@illinois.edu.

Papers:

Free products of abelian groups in mapping class groups. preprint

Proving Tucker's lemma with a volume argument, with B. Kuture, O. Leong, M. Sondjaja, and F. E. Su, Contemp. Math. 685 (2017) 223-230.

Teaching:

Spring 2021: Math 241

Fall 2020: Math 241*

Spring 2020: Math 241

Fall 2019: Math 231E**

Spring 2019: Math 231*

Fall 2018: Math 220**

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