Luke Conners

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Universität Zürich (UZH) Institute of Mathematics, working with Anna Beliakova. Before that, I completed my PhD in May 2025 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), under the supervision of David Rose.

I’m interested in categorification, quantum link invariants, and low-dimensional topology. My research focuses on structural and computational aspects of colored link homology.

My CV is here.

Organization

In Fall 2025, I'm organizing the seminar series of our research group. You can find the schedule and a list of titles and abstracts here.

Upcoming (and recent) seminars and travel

Minicourse on "Categorified Projectors and Colored HOMFLY Homology" in Belalp, Switzerland. September 1-4, 2025.
2025 AMS Eastern Sectional, Special Session on Advances in representation theory, combinatorics, and interactions with machine learning, Hartford, CT, April 5-6, 2025

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).

News

My paper Fray functors and equivalence of colored HOMFLYPT homologies has been accepted for publication at Quantum Topology.
I was awarded the 2024 International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM) Graduate Thesis Award (GTA) Silver Award for my paper Row-Column Mirror Symmetry for Colored Torus Knot Homology. Thank you to the ICCM for this honor!

Contact Me

Email: luke.conners@math.uzh.edu

Office: Y27K04

Address: Institute of Mathematics

University of Zurich

Winterthurerstrasse 190

CH-8057 Zurich

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