I am a fourth-year math PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania interested in vertex operator algebras. I intend to work on my thesis under the supervision of Angela Gibney. I co-organize the GeMs in Math group at Penn.
Email: avamock [at] sas.upenn.edu
I got my B.A. in math in 2023 from Wellesley College, a historically women's liberal arts college near Boston, MA. My senior thesis advisor was Megan Kerr.
The summer before my senior year of college, I participated in the Summer@ICERM 2022 REU at ICERM in Providence, RI. This experience solidified my desire to be an academic researcher and go to graduate school.
Below are other conferences/workshops that might interest undergraduate and early graduate students:
EDGE summer program: I participated in EDGE 2023 at Brown University the summer before starting grad school. It was a valuable educational experience and it gave me a supportive network of women in math.
Roots of Unity workshop: In Summer 2024, I participated in the Roots of Unity workshop at ICERM. I was in the commutative algebra group which was supervised/led by Ashley Wheeler and Haydee Lindo.
Preliminary Arizona Winter School: In Fall 2024, I participated in PAWS in the Symmetries of Root Systems lecture series.
I also attended the following conferences/workshops:
Here are some handwritten notes from previous classes (if you are curious to see them). Note: If these notes look frantic, it's because they were written under impending deadlines. Let me know if you find any typos/errors.
Notes presenting the results of a paper called "An invitation to Model Theoretic Galois Theory" by Medvedev and Takloo-Bighash (arXiv: 0909.4340)
Notes showing that the theory of algebraically closed fields has quantifier elimination (the main reference for this was the book Modern Mathematical Logic by Mileti. I consulted various pages on the internet for the last sections about further consequences and drawbacks)