About me
Contact info:
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:
Research School on Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science, co-teaching a mini-course with Anthony Genevois, CIRM, Luminy, France, January 29-February 2, 2024
Geometry Seminar, University of Virgina, April 2, 2024
TATERS Seminar, virtual talk, Boise State University, April 5. 2024
Virtual Algebra Seminar, Binghamton University, April 16, 2024
Geometry Seminar at Max PIanck Institute MiS, Leipzig, Germany, May 6-12, 2024
Conference on Dynamics on zero-dimensional spaces: new connections, plenary talk, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands, May 13-17, 2024
AIM workshop "Groups of dynamical origin", Pasadena, California, June 3-7, 2024
Geometric Group Theory Workshop (and research additional visit), Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai, China, July 8 - July 19, 2024
2nd Joint Meeting co-organized by the Unione Matematica Italiana (UMI) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS), co-organizing a special session, Palermo, Italy, July 23 - 26, 2024
Topology Seminar, University of Tennessee Knoxville, September 9, 2024
Colloquium, Brigham Young University, October 8, 2024
AMS Sectional Meeting, "Geometric Group Theory" special session, University at Albany, October 19-20, 2024
Binghamton University Graduate Conference in Algebra and Topology, October 26-27, 2024
Joint Mathematics Meetings, co-organizing special session on "Women in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics", Seattle Washington, January 8-11, 2025
SQuaRES program, AIM, Pasadena, California, February 24-28, 2025
Mathematical Congress of the Americas, Special session "Infinite Groups and Related Topics" at the Mathematical Congress of the Americas, Miami, Florida, July 21-25, 2025