Harper Niergarth

I am a first year Ph.D. student in the Combinatorics and Optimization Department (C&O) at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Olya Mandelshtam.

I also completed my Master's of Mathematics at Waterloo under the supervision of both Kevin Purbhoo and Olya Mandelshtam.

My interests are in algebraic combinatorics, particularly in symmetric functions and crystal graphs. Recently, I've been learning about the combinatorics of Macdonald polynomials.