Sergio Zamora

Postdoc researcher, Oregon State University

zamorabs@oregonstate.edu


My research focuses in metric geometry, geometric group theory, and differential geometry.


My Bachelor advisor is Adriana Ortiz-Rodríguez, my PhD advisor is Anton Petrunin,  and my Postdoc mentors are Stephan Stadler and Christine Escher.


I also manage the content of the YouTube channel what-is-math.


Here is my Research Statement, Teaching Philosophy, and CV

Texts


Topological rigidity of small RCD(K,N) spaces with maximal rank

with Xingyu Zhu

(preprint)  


Margulis Lemma on RCD(K,N) spaces

with Qin Deng, Jaime Santos Rodríguez, and Xinrui Zhao   

accepted in Analysis & PDE (preprint)  


Limits of almost homogeneous spaces and their fundamental groups

Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, 2024 (preprint)  


Fundamental groups and group presentations with bounded relator lengths

Geometriae Dedicata, 2024 (preprint)  


On fundamental groups of RCD spaces

with  Jaime Santos Rodríguez   

Crelles Journal, 2023 (preprint)  


Anderson finiteness for RCD spaces

(preprint)  


Tori can't collapse to an interval

Electronic Research Archive, 2020  


Moon in a puddle and the four vertex theorem

with Anton Petrunin, and artwork by Ana Cristina Chávez Cáliz   

American Mathematical Monthly   


First Betti number and collapse

(preprint 


Fundamental groups of aspherical manifolds that collapse

(preprint)  


What is differential geometry: curves and surfaces

with Anton Petrunin, and artwork by Ana Cristina Chávez Cáliz  

Textbook and video course  

Talks


The global shape of compact universal covers

Geometry and Topology Seminar, Washington University in St. Louis. 2023 (slides)


Lower Ricci bounds and fundamental group

Curvature and Global Shape. Munster. 2023 (slides)


Margulis Lemma and RCD spaces

Geometry and Analysis on Groups and Manifolds. De Giorgi Center. 2023 (slides)


Lower semi-continuity of fundamental groups and nilpotent structures

Topology Geometry Zoom Seminar. University of Oregon. 2023 (slides)


Lower semi-continuity of fundamental groups and nilpotent structures in persistence

AATRN Vietoris-Rips Seminar. 2023


First Betti number and collapse

New Developments in Differential Geometry and Topology. Boston. 2023


Topology of convergence with lower Ricci bounds

Geometry Seminar. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. 2022 (notes)


Restrictions on collapse with lower Ricci curvature bounds

Oberseminar Differentialgeometrie. Max Planck Institute. 2022


Squishable manifolds

Durham University. 2022


On collapse of tori under lower sectional curvature bounds

Barret Lectures. University of Tennessee. 2022 (slides)


Limites de espacios homogeneos discretos 

Jornada de Topologia, Geometria y Dinamica. 2022 (slides)


On collapse of tori under lower sectional curvature bounds

Alexandrov Seminar in Geometry. Euler Institute. 2022


On limits of almost homogeneous spaces

University of Copenhagen. 2022 (slides)


Structure of collapse on aspherical manifolds

University of Toronto. 2021


Global shape of Galois covers

UCSB. 2021 (slides)


Global shape of universal covers

Vanderbilt University. 2021


Structure of collapse and fundamental groups

CUNY Geometric Analysis Seminar. 2021 (slides)


Universal covers of manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded below

UNCG ANT-CoG. 2021 (slides)


Lower semi-continuity of the fundamental group and convergence with discrete symmetry

Virtual Workshop on Ricci and Scalar Curvature in honor of Misha Gromov. 2020


Fundamental groups and limits of almost homogeneous spaces

Metric Measure Spaces and Convergence Seminar. 2020 (slides)


Amenable groups and ultrafilters. Different takes on probability

Student Directed Colloquium. Penn State University. 2019 (notes)


Amenability

MSRI Summer School. Geometric Group Theory. 2019


Non-Smooth curvature 

Student Directed Colloquium. Penn State University. 2018 (slides)


Curvature and the paper sphere

Mathematical Coven. UNAM. 2015