I am a mathematician studying ideas at the intersections of geometric representation theory,  enumerative algebraic geometry, low dimensional topology, and integrable systems,  motivated by an increasingly robust dictionary between the modern mathematics canon and physical theories of quantum fields and strings.

I am currently an assistant adjunct professor at the University of California Los Angeles. Previously, I was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oxford and later an NSERC postdoctoral fellow based there. Before that, I completed my doctorate in mathematics at the University of Toronto and was a resident at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Email: Butson at math.ucla.edu

Office: 6617-F

Mailing address: 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095