I'm a mathematician looking at the interactions of homotopy theory and arithmetic geometry. In particular, I look at ways we can use homotopy theory to approach results in anabelian geometry, arithmetic curve counting, and rational points on varieties. At the moment, the two main things I'm thinking about are anabelian geometry, rational points, and the connections between them, as well as the arithmetic and geometric behaviour of a quadratically enriched Euler characteristic from motivic homotopy.
I currently organise the GWNT seminar, a seminar designed to connect number theorists in the south west (applied loosely) of England, along with 6 other people.
Brief CV
October 2025 - now: Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol
September 2024-September 2025: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bath, working with Daniel Loughran.
September 2023 - end of August 2024, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, working with Brendan Creutz and Felipe Voloch on the Marsden grant "Rational Points and Anabelian Geometry".
October 2019-September 2023: PhD Student at the London School of Geometry and Number Theory, supervised by Ambrus Pál.
The papers I've written can be found here. A much more in depth CV is this link (updated in October 2024), and I'm always happy to answer questions about work in preparation.
The list of talks I've given is here. I enjoy giving talks, so please get in touch if you'd like me to speak about something I've written!
In Autumn 2022, Ambrus Pál and I organised a study group on the series of papers "Smooth Profinite Groups" by de Clercq and Florence for the London Number Theory seminar. For more details click here.
I organised the London Junior Number Theory seminar for the academic year 2020-21 with Soham Karwa. A list of speakers and their abstract for the 2020-21 year can be found here. If you are interested in attending, subscribe to the mailing list.
In Autumn 2020, I also organised a study group on the étale homotopy obstruction to rational points. More details are available here.
You can contact me by email: jesse.pajwani@bristol.ac.uk
My pronouns are he/him.
My office is room 2.06 in the Fry Building at the University of Bristol.
Other Links
My MathSciNet author ID is 1636196
In case you're looking to run into me at a conference or a local seminar:
I'll be speaking at the Warwick Algebraic Topology seminar on the 28th October.
I'll be speaking at the Heilbronn Number Theory seminar in Bristol on the 5th November (though this isn't really travel)
I'll be giving the Oxford Arithmetic Geometry seminar on the 12th November.
I'll be attending and speaking at the London-Paris Number Theory Seminar on the 17th-18th November.