Embedded Files
Email: gheorghiu.max@gmail.com
Research Interests
Research Interests
My general research area is group theory. The underlying theme of all my projects is the quest of understanding the structure of groups. For this I like to employ homological, geometric or combinatorial methods or to look at the topology of a group.
Positions
Positions
2025–2027
Postdoctoral fellow at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
2024–2025
Research visitor at the University of the Basque Country, Spain
Education
Education
2019–2024
Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2022
Visiting postgraduate research student at the University of Southampton, UK from August to December
2018–2019
MSc in Mathematical Sciences, University of Oxford, UK
2015–2018
Mathematics BSc, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Papers
Papers
"Loose ear decompositions and their applications to right-angled Artin groups"
Max Gheorghiu. International Journal of Algebra and Computation, 34(7):1111–1129, 2024.
DOI: 10.1142/S0218196724500449
Preprints
Preprints
"On a completion of cohomological functors generalising Tate cohomology I"
Max Gheorghiu, May 2024
arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03610
"On a completion of cohomological functors generalising Tate cohomology II"
Max Gheorghiu, May 2024
To come…
To come…
I am applying condensed mathematics to establish Poincaré duality for profinite groups.
Awards
Awards
2022
Globalink Research Award, financial support for the above mentioned academic stay in Southampton, Mitacs
2022
Financial support for the academic stay in Southampton, Else v. Sick Foundation
2020
British Columbia Graduate Scholarship, excellence scholarship, Province of British Columbia
2018–2019
Financial support for studying abroad from the Swiss Study Foundation
Contributed Presentations
Contributed Presentations
December 2024
"Loose ear decompositions in right-angled Artin groups"
Group Theory Seminar, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
August 2023
"Condensed mathematics and group cohomology"
Early Career Symposium for Topology, Actions and Symmetry, University of Southampton, UK
November 2022
"Group cohomology through condensed mathematics"
Pure Mathematics Lunchtime Seminar, University of Southampton, UK
November 2022
"Tate cohomology for profinite groups"
Algebra Seminar, University of Lincoln, UK
Service
Service
November 2024–May 2025
Co-organising the Algebra Seminar at the University of the Basque Country together with Iker de las Heras
Teaching Experience
Teaching Experience
2023
Small class instructor from January to April. Conducting calculus workshops for first-year physics and engineering students. University of British Columbia
2021–2022
Teaching assistant. Conducting calculus workshops for first-year commerce and social science students. University of British Columbia
2021
Completion of the course "MATH 599: Mathematics Teaching Techniques" designed to give experience in teaching first-year undergraduate students. University of British Columbia
2019–2021
Teaching assistant. Working in the "Mathematics Learning Centre" to help students (among other duties). University of British Columbia
Languages
Languages
German (native), English (proficient), French (basic)
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse