Currently, I am either doing research in or learning about:
Properties of Cremona groups and mapping class groups
Classical and non-abelian Hodge theory
Resolvent degree and essential dimension
Representations of lattices in Lie groups
Differential geometry of moduli spaces
Real and enumerative algebraic geometry
Resolvent degree of arithmetic groups,
(with Claudio Gómez-Gonzáles and Jesse Wolfson), In preparation.
(with Seraphina Lee and Tudur Lewis), Preprint.
(with Omar Hurtado), Preprint.
(with Thomas Brazelton), Preprint.
J. Reine Angew. Math. (Crelle), 822 (2025), 147–178.
(with Claudio Gómez-Gonzáles, Siddharth Viswanath, and Jesse Wolfson), MAA Focus, vol. 44, 2024, no. 4: 18-22. [Additional Materials]
Translation from Russian.
Research Talks
Galois Groups of Equivariant Enumerative Problems - University of Chicago Geometry-Topology Seminar (January 2026)
On 4-Manifold Mapping Class Groups - University of Maryland, College Park Geometry-Topology Seminar (November 2025)
Hilbert's 13th Problem for Braid Groups - Summer Research Institute in Algebraic Geometry (July 2025)
Nielsen Realization for del Pezzo Surfaces - Notre Dame: Discrete Groups in Topology and Algebraic Geometry (June 2025)
Equivariant Monodromy and Moduli - Joint Math Meetings in Seattle, WA (January 2025)
Equivariant Monodromy and Moduli - Brown University Geometry/Topology Seminar (November 2024)
Uniform Central Limit Theorems on Lie Groups - UCSD Group Actions Seminar (October 2024)
Moduli and 4-Manifold Mapping Class Groups - University of Notre Dame Topology Seminar (April 2024)
Moduli and 4-Manifold Mapping Class Groups - University of Michigan: Ann Arbor Topology Seminar (March 2024)
Birman and Hilden, Enriques and Torelli - UCLA Algebraic Topology Seminar (February 2024)
A Smooth Birman-Hilden Theory for 4-Manifolds - Joint Math Meetings in San Francisco, CA (January 2024)
A Smooth Birman-Hilden Theory for 4-Manifolds - Texas Geometry and Topology Conference (November 2023)
The Geometry of Sextics and Resolvent Problems - Algebra, Geometry, and Topology Philadelphia Conference (May 2022)
UCI Department Talks
Orbifolds and Their Applications to the SSH and Haldane Models - Condensed Matter Physics and Topology Seminar (Spring 2022)
Cohomology Computations for Condensed Matter Physicists - Condensed Matter Physics and Topology Seminar (Fall 2021)
UCI Department Lecture Series
Ratner's Theorems and Their Applications (Spring 2021 Lecture Series)