Yirong Yang

杨衣容

Beach of Mathematics III, 2020. Ink on Paper. This work is from my series of drawings Beach of Mathematics. The bubbles-and-small-figures pattern was inspired by the picture of a simply-connected covering space of the union of a sphere and a circle intersecting it at two points. For the rest of this series, see here.

Yirong Yang (she/her)

I am an NSF math postdoc at the Georgia Institute of Technology, working with Josephine Yu.

I received my Ph.D. in 2026 from the University of Washington under the supervision of Isabella Novik.

My research is in combinatorial topology and discrete geometry, with connections to commutative algebra, graph theory, and matroid theory.

My non-mathematical hobbies are the visual arts, knitting, hiking, traveling, cooking, listening to audiobooks, and advocating for sustainability and slow fashion.

Conferences and Travels

Upcoming

(Talk) Fall Southeastern AMS Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics and Polytopes, October 10 - 11, 2026, Kennesaw State University
(Talk) Joint Mathematics Meetings, AMS Special Session on Topological Methods: Combinatorics, Geometry, and Applications, January 12 - 15, 2027, McCormick Place

You might have seen me at

(Talk) Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar, April 24, 2026, The Fields Institute
(Talk) Combinatorics Seminar, April 16, 2026, University of Oregon
(Talk) Combinatorics Seminar, April 6, 2026, Brown University
(Online talk) Discrete Mathematics Seminar, December 16, 2025, University of Passau
(Poster) Intensive Research Programme: Combinatorial Geometries and Geometric Combinatorics, October - November 2025, CRM Barcelona
University of Washington Combinatorics Seminar, for which I have been a co-organizer for 2024 - 2025.
(Talk) Spring Central AMS Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session on Algebraic, Geometric, and Topological Combinatorics, March 29 - 30, 2025, University of Kansas
Cascade Lectures in Combinatorics (CALICO), March 8, 2025, University of Washington
(Talk) Combinatorics Seminar, February 10, 2025, University of Miami
(Talk) Joint Mathematics Meetings, AMS Special Session on Geometric and Topological Combinatorics, January 8 - 11, 2025, Seattle Convention Center
Combinatorics and Geometry of Moduli Spaces of Curves (COMOC), July 28 - August 2, 2024, Banff International Research Station
(Project lead) Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics (GRWC), May 19 - 31, 2024, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(Poster) Santander Workshop on Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics, January 15-19, 2024, Universidad de Cantabria
Cascade Lectures in Combinatorics (CALICO), April 22, 2023, Reed College
MSRI Summer Graduate School: Topological Methods for the Discrete Mathematician, July 25 - August 5, 2022, St. Mary's College
Symmetries in Graphs, Maps, and Polytopes Workshop (SIGMAP), July 10 - 16, 2022, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Combinatorial, Computational, and Applied Algebraic Geometry (CCAAGS), June 27 - July 1, 2022, University of Washington
Building Relationships for an Inclusive and Diverse Group of Emerging Students (BRIDGES), June 7 - 10, 2022, University of Utah
Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (WAGS), April 22 - 24, 2022, Colorado State University

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