About me
About:
rachel.skipper[at]utah[dot]edu
I am a tenure track assistant professor at the University of Utah.
I completed my PhD at Binghamton University in 2018. I then spent the 2018-2019 academic year as a research assistant (postdoc) simulataneously at ENS de Lyon and the University of Goettingen. From 2019-2022, I was a Zassenhaus Assistant Professor (postdoc) at the Ohio State University. From 2022-2023, I was a visiting researcher/professor at the ENS Paris.
Upcoming talks and places you might run into me:
BIRS Oaxaca workshop on "Group Actions on Cantor Sets", attending virtually, September 3-8, 2023
Totally disconnected locally compact groups from a geometric perspective, University of Munster, Germany, September 11-15, 2023
GoTh Workshop: Groups of Thompson and their relatives, speaking virtually, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, September 18-22, 2023
AWM seminar, University of Oklahoma, September 26, 2023
Geometry and Topology Seminar, University of Oklahoma, September 27, 2023
Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, Rice University, November 10-12, 2023
Research School on Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science, co-teaching a mini-course with Anthony Genevois, CIRM, Luminy, France, January 29-February 2, 2024
Conference on Dynamics on the Cantor set, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands, May 13-17, 2024
AIM workshop "Groups of dynamical origin", June 3-7, 2024, Pasadena, California
Research interests: I work in geometric and combinatorial group theory. My past work and much of my current work is focused on groups acting on trees and boundaries of trees, e.g. self-similar and automata groups, branch groups, groups in the extended Thompson family, etc....
I am supported in part by NSF grant no. DMS-2005297.