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Hi, I am a fifth-year mathematics PhD candidate at the University of Washington, advised by Isabella Novik.
My research focuses on the interplay between the combinatorial and topological properties of triangulated manifolds.
I am currently on the academic job market (Fall 2025).
My curriculum vitae. I can be reached by email at yyang1@uw.edu.
My current career goals are:
to explore and work on various open problems in combinatorics, especially those in the study of simplicial complexes as well as those in relation to topology;
to improve my teaching and mentoring skills to encourage more people, especially those from underrepresented groups in the math community, to pursue their interest in math;
to seek ways of applying my mathematical knowledge, abstract and creative thinking, and experience in research to solving real-world problems.
My non-mathematical interests are the visual arts, knitting, hiking, traveling, cooking, reading, and advocating for sustainability and slow fashion.
You probably know me as Connie Yang if we met before 2017.
This Fall 2025, I am participating in the two-month Intensive Research Programme on Combinatorial Geometries and Geometric Combinatorics at CRM Barcelona.
University of Washington Combinatorics Seminar, for which I have been a co-organizer for 2024 - 2025.
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
Combinatorics Seminar, February 10, 2025, University of Miami
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
Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics (GRWC), May 19 - 31, 2024, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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
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 in two points. For the rest of this series, see here.
This is me.