Mailing address: Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia, 141 Cabell Drive, Kerchof Hall, P.O. Box 400137Charlottesville, VA 22904-4137
Office: 309 Karckof Hall
Phone: (434) 924-8896.
E-mail: sm4cw(at)virginia.edu
CV: here
Research partially supported by: Simons Foundation (Fellow in Mathematics 2025) and National Science Foundation grants DMS-1848346 (NSF CAREER) and DMS-1839968 (NSF RTG).
My view of Mathematics: I agree with Federico Ardila’s axioms from this article:
Axiom 1. Mathematical talent is distributed equally among different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.
Axiom 2. Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences.
Axiom 3. Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.
Axiom 4. Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.
MENTORING:
Graduate students
Alec Traaseth, Ph.D. in 2024.
David Chasteen-Boyd, exp. graduation 2026.
Mason Hart, exp. graduation 2027.
Adam Friedman-Brown, exp. graduation 2027.
Zivile Puospekaite, exp. graduation 2027.
Lam Ngoc Nguyen, exp. graduation 2028.
Aaratrick Basu, exp. graduation 2029.
Master students, DMP Thesis:
Trent Lucas, DMP Thesis "Hyperbolic Structures on Surfaces".
Mason Barnes, DMP Thesis "The Connected Components of the Character Variety of the Four-Punctured Sphere" and Master Thesis.
Past Members:
Filippo Mazzoli (postdoc, 2020-2023).