Esther Banaian

I am a Junior Research Group Leader at Paderborn University. I previously worked as a Mathematics Fellow at the University of California - Riverside and as a postdoc in the Homological Algebra group at Aarhus University. I graduated from the University of Minnesota where I worked with Gregg Musiker.  Here is my CV.

Research Interests: Algebraic combinatorics, representation theory of finite-dimensional algebras, enumerative combinatorics, hyperbolic geometry.

Key Words: Cluster algebras, frieze patterns (see wonderful introductory video below by Dr. Sergei Tabachnikov), Markov numbers, gentle algebras, cluster categories, Coxeter groups, polytopes, continued fractions.

I have Erdos number 2 (thanks Steve!).

When I am not doing math, I enjoy running, biking, cooking, learning new languages, and playing cribbage. 

(A hint for pronouncing my last name: it rhymes with ``canyon''.)