Demetre Kazaras (he/him)
Current Position: 2023-- Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Email: kazarasd@msu.edu
Research interests: I love all types of geometry and topology. My mathematical passions center on the scalar curvature of Riemannian manifolds and questions in General Relativity. The tools I use include elliptic PDE, minimal hypersurfaces, and topological elbow grease.
If you're interested in the geometry of the space we inhabit but don't have advanced knowledge, take a look through this introductory article. If you're interested in the geometry of the space we inhabit and have advanced knowledge, take a look at Dan Lee's book on the subject.
Here is an article in Quanta about one of my papers on black holes.
Click here for my publications.
Please check out my undergraduate research page and selected figures page!
A recent talk on comparison geometry via spacetime harmonic functions
A recent lecture on stability of the positive mass theorem
Previous positions:
PhD 2017 University of Oregon (Advisor Boris Botvinnik)
2017-2020 Postdoc at Stony Brook University
2020-2023 Duke University, Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor (with Hugh Bray)
