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:
Topology Seminar, University of Tennessee Knoxville, September 9, 2024
Colloquium, Brigham Young University, October 1, 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
Barrett Memorial Lectures, Townsend, Tennessee, May 19-22, 2025
Geometry and Topology of Polyhedral Complexes, in honor of Mike Davis' 75th birthday, The Ohio State University, May 26-30, 2025
GAGTA: Groups, Logic, and Computation: Interactions between geometric group theory, model theory, and computer science, Stevens Institute of Technology, June 9-13, 2025
Blooming Beasts: A Conference on the Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics of Infinite-Type Surfaces, BIRS Oaxaca, Mexico, June 22-27, 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
2025 Research School on Algebra and Topology in the Philippines, December 2025
Group Actions and Dynamics, New York, June 2026.
Upcoming visitors:
Scott Schmieding - October 14-17, 2024
Laura Lankers - November 18-22, 2024
Matthew Zaremsky - March 17-21, 2025
Jamie Juul - March 25-27, 2025