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rachel.skipper[at]utah[dot]edu
About me:
I am a tenure track assistant professor at the University of Utah.
Before coming to 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. I spent the 2022-2023 academic year as a visiting researcher/visiting professor at the ENS Paris.
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.
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Upcoming travel and talks:
GAGTA: Groups, Logic, and Computation: Interactions between geometric group theory, model theory, and computer science, Stevens Institute of Technology, June 9-13, 2025
BIRS Oaxaca, Blooming Beasts: A Conference on the Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics of Infinite-Type Surfaces, June 22- 27, 2025.
Colloquium Talk, University of Maryland, October 8, 2025
Research School on Algebra and Topology in the Philippines, December 2025
SQuaRES program, AIM, Pasadena, California, February 23-27, 2026
Groups and Dynamics: Topology, Measure, and Borel Structure, Oberwolfach, Germany, April 12-17, 2026
Group Actions and Dynamics, New York, June 2026.
Upcoming visitors:
Thomas Koberda - April 22-24, 2025
Matteo Tarocchi and Davide Perego - June 2-8, 2025
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