Fraser Sparks
PhD Student in Mathematics
University of Nottingham
email: [firstname] (dot) [surname] (at) nottingham.ac.uk
PhD Student in Mathematics
University of Nottingham
email: [firstname] (dot) [surname] (at) nottingham.ac.uk
About Me
I am a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Nottingham, supervised by Prof. Alexander Vishik.
Before this, I completed my MMath at the University of Oxford.
My research interests are topics in algebraic geometry that are topological, (co)homological and/or homotopical in flavour.
More specifically, I like to think about motives and their tensor-triangular geometry.
Publications/Preprints
On the tensor-triangular geometry of isotropic motives - arXiv:2511.05922 (submitted)
Travel
Homological Algebra in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory (Salerno, Mar 2026)
Motives in Montpellier (Montpellier, Jan 2026)
Tensor triangular geometry and interactions (Oberwolfach, Oct 2025)
BrAG VII (Nottingham, Sep 2025)
Motives, equivariant topology and tt-geometry (Warwick, Sep 2025)
Motives and Arithmetic Geometry (Darmstadt, Jul 2025)
Recent Developments in Algebraic K-Theory (Warwick, Apr 2025)
Motivic homotopy theory (Regensburg, Mar 2025)
IAS PCMI Graduate Summer School on Motivic Homotopy Theory (Utah, Jul 2024)
Motives in Mainz (Mainz, Mar 2024)
Upcoming
BMC 2026 (Cardiff, Mar 2026)
Geometry of Motives (Oberwolfach, Jan 2027)
Organisation
I co-organise the Nottingham mathematics PhD student seminar.
I am co-organising the summer school Motivic Midlands to be held in Nottingham, 7th-11th September 2026.