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.
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.
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).
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!
Email: luke.conners@math.uzh.edu
Office: Y27K04
Address: Institute of Mathematics
University of Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich