Alumni: Department of Mathematics - Northwestern University

Alumni

Year	Name	Advisor	Thesis Title	First Position
2023	Christian Gorski	Auffinger	Large-scale Geometry of First Passage Percolation on Graphs of Polynomial Growth	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
2023	Yaroslav Khromenkov	Tamarkin	Generation in Geometric Derived Categories	Tanius Technology, LLC
2023	Catherine Ray	Goerss	Geometrically Modelling the Lubin-Tate action	University of Münster
2023	Micah Darrell	Antieau	Topological Restriction Homology is Locally Even in Characteristic p	TBA
2023	Daniel Fletcher	Auffinger	Equilibrium Measures for t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding	Susquehanna International Group, LLP
2023	Grigory Kondyrev	Francis	Modules over enriched (infinity,n)-categories	TBA
2023	Wenyuan Li	Murphy	Some functoriality results of microlocal sheaves over Legendrians and Lagrangians	University of Southern California
2023	Anthony McCormick	Naber	Spectral Theory and Index Theorems for Stationary Spacetimes	TBA
2023	Grigory Papayanov	Tsygan	Two Applications of the Homotopy Transfer Theorem for Infinity-Algebras	Haifa University
2023	John Snadden	Zaslow	Sheaves, Weaves and Canoes (Enumerative Invariants for a Class of Legendrian Surfaces)	Mathnasium
2023	Ruoyu Wang	Wunsch	Microlocal analysis of damped waves on noncompact manifolds	University College London
2023	Yuxin Zhou	Auffinger	The Spherical Spin Glass Models at Low and Zero Temperature	University of Chicago
2022	Wanxing Liu	Weinkove	Constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics on smooth minimal models	Amazon
2022	Michael Geis	Zelditch	Concentration of quantum integrable eigenfunctions on convex surfaces of revolution	RedMane Technology LLC
2022	Pax Kivimae	Auffinger	Random matrices, Gaussian multiplicative chaos, and complexity	NYU (NSF Postdoc)
2022	Viktor Burghardt	Goerss	Stable cooperations of Motivic Witt cohomology	University of Michigan
2022	Xi (Cathy) Chen	Auffinger	Thouless-Anderson-Palmer equations for the Ghatak-Sherrington mean field spin glass model	TBA
2022	Fanjun Meng	Zaslow	Birational geometry of log pairs	John Hopkins University
2022	Abraham Rabinowitz	Zelditch	Scaling asymptotics of Szego kernels and concentration of Husimi distributions on Grauert tubes	State Farm
2022	Mengxuan Yang	Wunsch	Diffraction and scattering theory of the Aharonov-Bohm Hamiltonian	University of California, Berkeley
2021	Aydin Yousfzadehfard	Francis	Grothendieck-Lefschetz theory for algebraic K-theory	Google
2021	Signe Emalia Jensen	DeMarco	Geometric Limits of Julia Sets for Unicritical Polynomials Under Degree Growth	TBA
2021	Nilay Kumar	Getzler	The Batalin-Vilkovisky Laplacian from Homological Perturbation Theory	TBA
2021	Rachel McEnroe	Burns	Some Examples of Unique Measures of Maximal Entropy and Equilibrium States	TBA
2021	Junxiao Wang	Zaslow	The Gamma Conjecture for Local Mirror Symmetry: A Tropical Approach Via the Gross-Siebert Program	Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research
2021	Yajit Jain	Francis	Fiberwise Poincare-Hopf Theory and Exotic Smooth Structures on Manifold Bundles	Brown University (NSF Postdoc)
2021	Xi Sisi Shen	Weinkove	Hermitian Metrics of Constant Chern Scalar Curvature and a Chern-Calabi Flow	Columbia University
2021	Pyongwon Suh	Zaslow	The Coherent-Constructible Correspondence for Toric Projective Bundles	Chinese University of Hong Kong
2021	Mingyi Zhang	Popa	Hodge Ideals of Three Types of Isolated Hypersurface Singularies	Non-Academia
2021	Anh Ngoc Le	Kra	Nilsequences and Multiple Correlations Along Subsequences	Ohio State University
2020	Khashayar Filom	DeMarco	Entropy Behavior of Real Rational Maps	University of Michigan
2020	Kitty Yang	Kra	Algebraic Invariants of Symbolic Systems	University of Memphis
2020	Nick McCleerey	Tosatti	Singularities of Plurisubharmonic Functions and Kahler Geometry	University of Michigan
2020	Peter (Perry) Kleinhenz	Wunsch	Decay Rates for the Damped Wave Equation on the Torus	Stanford University
2020	Sebastián Olano	Popa	Some Applications of Perverse Sheaves and Hodge Theory to Birational Geometry	University of Michigan
2020	Shuyi Weng	DeMarco	Harmonic Caps and Planar Conformal Geometry	Northwestern University
2020	Yu (Sid) Wang	Naber	Global Coulomb Gauge in Dimension 4	Apple
2020	Yuxiang Wang	Liu	Theta Functions and Hermitian Jacobi Forms Over Imaginary Quadratic Fields	Education (China)
2019	Guchuan Li	Goerss	Picard Groups of K(n)-local Categories	University of Copenhagen, University of Michicagn
2019	Heng Guo	Hsu	Strong Interpolation between Brownian Motion and the Geodesic Flow	Google
2019	Hsiang (Robert) Chang	Zelditch	Random and Small-Scale Quantum Ergodocity	Northeastern University
2019	Sean Pohorence	Getzler	The Brink-Schwarz Superparticle in the Batalin-Vilkovisky Formalism	Finance (Radix Trading)
2019	Yajnaseni Dutta	Popa	Some Effective Problems in Algebraic Geometry and Their Applications	Universitat Bonn
2019	Maksym Chornyi	Juschenko	Non-elementary Amenable Groups: Kaplansky's Conjecture	Finance (Kanerai NYC)
2019	Sungyoon Cho	Liu	The Basic Locus of the Unitary Shimura Variety with Parahoric Level Structure and Special Cycles	University of Arizona
2019	Piotr Pstragowski	Goerss	Algebraicity in Chromatic Homotopy Theory	Harvard University
2018	Lauren Bandklayder	Francis	Spaces of Configurations and Applications of Factorization Homology	Max Planck Institute, Bonn
2018	Gregory Jackson Edwards	Weinkove/Tosatti	The Conical Kahler-Ricci Flow and the Analytic Log Minimal Model Program	University of Notre Dame
2018	Elden Elmanto	Francis	Motivic Contractibility of the Space of Rational Maps	Harvard University
2018	Xavier Eduardo Garcia	Hsu	Asymptotics for the Number of Critical Points for Two Analytical Models	Finance
2018	Aron Alexandre Heleodoro	Tamarkin	On the Geometry of Higher Tate Spaces	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain
2018	Johan Wiebe Thijm Konter	Goerss	The Goodwillie Tower of Infinite Loops as Derived Functors	Stockholm University
2018	Nicole Romain Looper	DeMarco	Uniformity in Polynomial Dynamics: Canonical Heights, Primitive Prime Divisors, and Galois Representations	University of Cambridge (NSF Postdoc)
2018	Andrew Kintner Reiser	Avni	Pushforwards of Measures on Real Varieties Under Maps with Rational Singularities
2018	Nan Shi	Avni	Almost Gelfand Property of Symmetric Pairs	University of California Santa Barbara
2018	Paul Behrents Vankoughnett	Goerss	Localizations of E-Theory and Transchromatic Phenomena in Stable Homotopy Theory	Purdue University
2018	Brian R Williams	Francis	The Holomorphic Sigma-model and its Symmetries	Northeastern University
2017	Honghao Gao	Zaslow	Augmentations and Sheaves for Knot Conomals	Institute Fourier, Grénoble
2017	Weiping Spencer Liang	Goerss	The Brown-Peterson Homology of the Connected Cover of the J-spectrum	Purdue University
2017	Joel Benjamin Specter	Calegari	Unramifiedness and Crystallinity	Johns Hopkins
2017	Ann Rebecca Wei	Tsygan	What Do Algebras Form	Allstate
2017	Dylan Lee Wilson	Goerss	Equivariant, Parameterized, and Chromatic Homotopy Theory	University of Chicago
2017	Philsang Yoo	Zaslow	Langlands Duality and Quantum Field Theory	Yale University
2017	Peng Zhou	Zaslow	From Lagrangian Thimbles to Construcible Sheaves	IHES
2016	Michael John Couch	Getzler	A Study of the Equivariant Gromov-Witten Theory of the Projective Line and Eynard-Orantin Recursion	Data Analysis Consultant, Australia
2016	Eric Dolores Cuenca	Tamarkin	DG - Swiss Cheese Conjecture
2016	Philip Egger	Goerss	Some computations in $v_2$-periodic homotopy theory at the prime 2	Pennsylvania State University
2016	Christopher Elliot	Costello/Nadler	Gauge Theoretics Aspects of the Geometric Langlands Correspondence	IHES
2016	Zili Huang	Calegari	Perron Numbers and Their Distribution	CGG
2016	Ben Knudsen	Francis	Higher enveloping algebras and configuration spaces of manifolds	Harvard
2016	Robert Grant
2016	Matthew Mahowald	Zaslow	Knots and Gamma Classes in Open Topologcial String Theory	Open Data Group
2016	Richard Moy	Calegari	Non-CM Hilbert Modular Forms of Partial Weight One	Willamette University
2016	Wenbo Sun	Kra	Structure theorems in dynamics and their applications	The Ohio State University
2016	Vlad Ioan Serban
2015	Sheng-Fu Chiu	Tamarkin	Non-squeezing property of contact balls	Northwestern University
2015	Yanxia Deng	Xia	Conley-Zehnder Index and Some Applications	Queen's University
2015	Ziyue Guo	Calegari	Abelian Graphs	Marlboro College
2015	Rohan Kadakia	Wunsch	Semiclassical Second Microlocal Propagation of Coisotropic Regularity	University of Michigan
2015	Clemens Koppensteiner	Nadler	Some microlocal aspects of perverse coherent sheaves and equivalent D-modules	University of British Columbia
2015	Joshua Wellington Shadlen	Costello	Toward Cyclic Langlands	Perimeter Institute
2015	Zhenan Wang	Hsu	Global and local properties of solutions of stochastic partial differential equations	University of Washington
2014	Irina Bobkova	Goerss	Resolutions in the K(2)-local Category at the Prime 2	University of Rochester
2014	Boris Hanin	Zelditch	Correlations and Pairing Between Zeros and Critical Points of Random Polynomials	MIT
2014	Marc Hoyois	Goerss	A quadratic refinement of the Grothendieck-Lefschetz-Verdier trace formula	MIT
2014	Takuo Matsuoka	Costello	Descent and the Koszul duality for locally constant factorisation algebras	Japan
2014	Eric Potash	Zelditch	Euclidean Embeddings and Riemannian Bergman Metrics	University of Chicago
2014	Jesse Wolfson	Getzler	Descent for n-Bundles, Tate Objects in Exact Categories, the Index Map and Reciprocity Laws	University of Chicago
2014	Lei Wu
2014	Zhenghe Zhang	Wilkinson	Positivity and continuity of Lyapunov exponents for one-frequency, smooth quasi-periodic Schroedinger operators	Rice
2013	Agnes Beaudry	Paul Goerss	The Duality Resolution Spectral Sequence for the Moore Spectrum at the Prime 2	University of Chicago
2013	Chitrabhanu Chaudhuri	Ezra Getzler	Topological Bounds on Certain Open Subvarieties of the Compactified Moduli Space of Curves	MPI Bonn
2013	Sam Gunningham	David Nadler	Categorified Harmonic Analysis on Complex Reductive Groups	University of Texas, Austin
2013	Vladimir Kotov	Kevin Costello	The Atiyah-Bott theorem for algebraic surfaces	Finance
2013	Ian Le	David Nadler	Higher Laminations and Affine Buildings	University of Chicago
2013	Kiran Parkhe	John Franks	Actions of the Heisenberg Group on Surfaces	Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
2013	Hiro Lee Tanaka	Kevin Costello	A Functor from Lagrangian Cobordisms to the Fukaya Category	Harvard University
2012	Renjie Feng	Zelditch	Zeros and critical points of random fields	McGill University
2012	Glenn Austin Ford	Wunsch	The structural and dispersive properties of classical and quantum waves on Euclidean cones	Stanford University (NSF Postdoc)
2012	Owen Gwilliam	Costello	Factorization algebras and free field theories	UC Berkeley (NSF Postdoc)
2012	Vaibhav Kukreja	Chen	Existence and stability of vortex sheets and entropy waves for the Euler equations for steady compressible flows	Oxford University
2012	Rob Nendorf	Goerss	Power operations for Morava E-theory of height 2 and characteristic 3	Inspired Learning Center
2012	Oleg Podkopaev	Suslin	Comparison of Grayson's and Friedlander-Suslin's spectral sequences	Universitaet Duisburg-Essen
2012	Nicolo Sibilla	Zaslow	Mirror symmetry in dimension one	Max Planck (Bonn)
2012	Michael Skirvin	Nadler	A global analogue of the Springer resolution for SL_2	UC San Diego
2012	Maria Stadnik	Calegari	Ray class fields of conductor p	Birmingham-Southern College
2012	Theodore Stadnik	Nadler	Constructions using differential operators in positive characteristic	UC Berkeley/MSRI
2012	Daniel Visscher	Wilkinson	Franks' lemma in geometric contexts	University of Michigan
2011	Chuangxun Cheng	Emerton	Multiplicities of Galois representations in cohomology groups of Shimura curves	Korea
2011	Qian Ding	Chen	Stochastic conservation laws	Finance
2011	Evgeny Shinder	Suslin	On motives of algebraic groups associated to division algebras	Max Planck (Bonn)
2011	Vesna Stojanoska	Goerss	Duality for Topological Modular Forms	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2010	Thomas Dunlap	Nadler	Combinatorial representation theory of affine SL2 via polytope calculus	Hebrew University
2010	Bohan Fang	Zalsow	Mirror Symmetry, Constructible Sheaves, and Toric Varieties	Columbia University
2010	Yongxia Hua	Xia	Continuity of topological entropy of time-one maps of Anasov diffeomorphisms	China
2010	Shihan Ma	Hsu	Asymptotics of implied volatility in local volatility model near expiry	China
2010	Amanda Potts	Kra	Multiple ergodic averages for flows and an application	National Security Agency
2010	Justin Thomas	Costello	Kontsevich's Swiss cheese conjecture	University of Notre Dame
2009	Kal Nanes	Wilkinson	On the Ergodicity of Partially Hyperbolic Group Actions	University of Maryland Baltimore County
2009	Cheng Ouyang	Hsu	Asymptotics of Implied Volatility in Local Volatility Models	Purdue University
2009	Randy Qian	Wunsch	Diffractive Theorems for the Wave Equation with Inverse Square Potential	Purdue University
2008	Clark Alexander	Tsygan	Index theorems on noncommutative two-tori and Hochschild cohomology of quantum special linear groups	Temple University
2008	Scott M. Bailey	Goerss	Topological splittings of spectra related to tmf	University of Rochester
2008	Chenghao Chu	Friedlander	Representing cohomology theories in the triangulated category of motives	Johns Hopkins University
2008	Alexander Getmanenko	Tsygan	Resurgent analysis of the Witten Laplacian in one dimension	Max Planck (Bonn)
2008	Christopher Novak	Franks	Group actions via interval exchange transformations	University of Michigan, Dearborn
2008	Fang Wang	Xia	Minimal measures for Lagrangian systems	Capital Normal University (Beijing)
2007	Marco Aldi	Eric Zaslow	A-branes and mirror symmetry	University of California
2007	Dennis Borisov	Manin	Homotopy Gerstenhaber structure on deformation complex of a morphism	Yale University
2007	Vivek Dhand	Vilonen	Geometric Langlands duality and forms of reductive groups	Michigan State University
2007	Michael Johnson	Kra	Results on polynomial ergodic averages	Temple University
2007	Mircea Voineagu	Friedlander	Semi-topological K-theory of certain projective varieties	University of Southern California
2006	Andrea Carter	Emerton	The Brauer groups of Del Pezzo surface	Roosevelt University
2006	Jeremiah Heller	Friedlander	Semi-topological Cobordism for Complex Varieties	University of Western Ontario
2006	Valentina Joukhovitski	Goerss	Topological modular forms and pⁿ-level structures at the prime p	University of Michigan
2006	Anne McCarthy	Wilkinson	Rigidity of solvable group actions	Temple University
2006	Paul Pearson	Goerss	The mod 2 homology of the connective spectrum of topological modular forms	University of Rochester
2006	Matthew Salomone	Xia	Quasi-periodic continuation along a continuous symmetry	University of Arizona
2006	Drew Youngren	Wunsch	Microlocal analysis of the anharmonic oscillator with large potential at infinity	New York City High Schools (Math for America Fellowship)
2006	Hua Zhang	Xia	Symplectic partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms	Michigan State University
2005	Jun Chen	Chen	Transonic shocks and gas dynamics	University of Wisconsin
2005	Xuezhi Andrew Cheng	Getzler	Transferring homotopy commutative algebraic structure	University of Science and Technology of China
2005	Lisa Clay	Emerton	Some conjectures about the slopes of modular forms	Institute for Advanced Study
2005	Young-Heon Kim	Getzler	Holomorphic extensions of laplacians and their determinants	University of Toronto
2005	Radu Saghin	Xia	Generic properties of Lagrangian systems and conservative diffeomorphisms	University of Toronto
2005	Zaiyong Alex Yang	Xia	Laminations and connecting orbits on lattice	Finance in Hong Kong
2005	Dianwen Zhu	Chen	Euler equations and steady supersonic flows	University of Maryland