About me
About:
skipper.rachel.k[at]gmail[dot]com
Beginning in fall 2022, I will be a visiting researcher at the ENS Paris.
Beginning in fall 2023, I will 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 at ENS de Lyon and the University of Goettingen. From 2019-2022, I was a Zassenhaus Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University.
Upcoming talks and places you might run into me:
South Eastern Logic Symposium (SEALS) Conference, University of Florida, March 5-6, 2022
Virtual Geometry and Algebra Seminar, University of Newcastle, March 22, 2022
(Virtual) AMS Spring Central Sectional Meeting Sesion on "Group Theory and Logic" and Session on "Topics in Algebraic and Geometric Topology", Purdue, March 26-27, 2022
Introductory School for the "Groups Acting on Fractals, Hyperbolicity and Self-similarity" Thematic Trimester, teaching a minicourse, Luminy (CIRM), April 11-15, 2022
Virtual Geometric Group Theory seminar, University of Münster, April 21, 2022
Research visit with Collin Bleak and Scott Harper, University of Bristol, May 2-6, 2022
"Groups Acting on Fractals, Hyperbolicity and Self-similarity" Thematic Trimester, co-organizing the "Self-similarity of groups, trees and fractals" conference, Institut Henri Poincaré, approximately May 6-June 4, 2022
Virtual Algebra Seminar, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, May 17, 2022
SUMTOPO, co-organizing the Geometric Group Theory Special Session, Vienna, Austria, July 18-22 2022 (attending virtually)
Oberwolfach Workshop "Topologie", July 24-30, 2022 (attending virtually)
BIRS Oaxaca workshop on "Interactions between algebraic topology and geometric group theory", co-organizing May 28, 2023 - June 02, 2023
Geometric group theory and low-dim topology thematic program, ICMAT, Madrid, Spain, June 2023
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.