• My student Yuan Xu defended his Master's thesis "Colored HOMFLY homology for positive two-strand torus knots" on August 12th, 2026 and is now on the market for a Ph.D. position. Congratulations, Yuan!

• I have been awarded a UZH postdoc grant for the project "Superalgebra Link Homology" for the period September 2026 - September 2027. This work will be carried out jointly with Anna Beliakova and Eugene Gorsky.

• My preprint Doubly-graded exponential growth of colored torus knot homology is now available on arXiv. Comments and suggestions are very welcome!

Upcoming (and recent) seminars and travel

• CRM Workshop on Symmetric Functions and Knot Homology, Montreal, Canada, March 30 - April 3, 2027

• CNRS Topology Seminar, Paris, France, November 10, 2026

• IPAM Workshop on Contact Geometry, Cluster Algebras and Skein Theory, Los Angeles, CA, October 26 - 29, 2026

• UC Davis Geometry and Topology Seminar, Davis, CA, October 23, 2026

• Johns Hopkins Topology Seminar, Baltimore, MD, October 19, 2026

• UNC Physically Inspired Mathematics Seminar, October 2026

• Quantum Topology meets Quantum Computation, Monte Verita, Switzerland, April 26 - May 1, 2026

Come say hello if you see me! Feel free to email me if you would like me to speak in your seminar series (or if you would like to go hiking before or after an upcoming event).

Mentoring and Organization