Research

Here is a research statement Research Statement (from 2019).

My research focuses on the geometry, topology, and deformation theory of locally homogeneous geometric structures on manifolds, a subject with roots in Felix Klein’s 1872 Erlangen program that features a blend of differential geometry, Lie theory, representation theory, and dynamics. I study an array of low-dimensional geometric structures modeled on non-Riemannian geometries including semi-Riemannian, affine, and projective geometries. Of particular interest to me is a phenomenon known as geometric transition, by which different moduli spaces of geometric manifolds interact with one another.

In 2015, Jean-Marc Schlenker gave a Séminaire Bourbaki about my joint work with François Guéritaud and Fanny Kassel.

Recent papers

  1. Convex cocompactness for Coxeter groups
    joint with F. Guéritaud, F. Kassel , G.-S. Lee, and L. Marquis, to appear in Journal of the European Mathematical Society.
  2. Convex cocompact actions in real projective geometry
    joint with F. Guéritaud and F. Kassel, to appear in Annales Scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure
  3. Proper actions of discrete groups of affine transformations
    joint with T. Drumm, W. Goldman, I. Smilga.
    Dynamics, Geometry, Number Theory: the Impact of Margulis on Modern Mathematics (D. Fisher, D. Kleinbock, G. Soifer, eds.), University of Chicago Press, February 2022.
  4. Quasicircles and width of Jordan curves in CP^1
    joint with Francesco Bonsante , S. Maloni, and J.-M. Schlenker, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 53 (2) 507-523 (2021)
  5. The induced metric on the boundary of the convex hull of a quasicircle in hyprebolic and anti de Sitter geometry
    joint with Francesco Bonsante , S. Maloni, and J.-M. Schlenker, Geometry and Topology 25, 2827--2911
  6. Affine actions with Hitchin linear part
    joint with T. Zhang, Geometric and Functional Analysis, 29, 1369-1439 (2019).
  7. Proper affine actions of right-angled Coxeter groups
    joint with F. Guéritaud and F. Kassel, Duke Mathematical Journal, 169(12): 2231-2280 (2020).
  8. Convex cocompactness in pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces
    joint with F. Guéritaud and F. Kassel, Geometriae Dedicata, special issue Geometries: A celebration of Bill Goldman's 60th birthday., 192, Issue 1, pp. 87--126, 2018.
  9. Convex projective structures on non-hyperbolic three-manifolds
    joint with S. Ballas and G.-S. Lee, Geometry and Topology, 22 (2018), pp 1593--1646.
  10. Fundamental domains for free groups acting on anti-de Sitter 3-space
    joint with F. Guéritaud and F. Kassel, Math. Res. Lett. 23 (2016), no. 3, pp. 735--770.
  11. Polyhedra inscribed in a quadric
    joint with S. Maloni and J.-M. Schlenker, Invent. Math., 221 (2020), 237-300.
  12. Limits of geometries
    joint with D. Cooper and A. Wienhard, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 370 (2018), 6585--6627.
  13. Margulis spacetimes via the arc complex
    joint with F. Guéritaud and F. Kassel, Invent. Math., 204 (2016), no. 1, pp. 133--193.
  14. Geometry and topology of complete Lorentz spacetimes of constant curvature
    joint with F. Guéritaud and F. Kassel, Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. 49 (2016), no. 1, pp/ 1--56.
  15. Ideal triangulations and geometric transitions
    J. Topol. 7 (2014), no. 4, pp. 1118--1154.
  16. A Geometric transition from hyperbolic to anti de Sitter geometry
    Geom. Topol. 17 (2013), no. 5, pp. 3077--3134

The following works are in preparation. Preliminary drafts may be available upon request.

  1. Margulis spacetimes with parabolic elements
    joint with F. Guéritaud and F. Kassel
    (in preparation)
  2. Combination theorems in convex real projective geometry
    joint with F. Guéritaud and F. Kassel
    (in preparation)
  3. Exotic real projective Dehn surgery space
    joint with S. Ballas, G.-S. Lee, and L. Marquis. (in preparation)

Thesis

Geometric transitions: from hyperbolic to AdS geometry
ph.d. thesis, Stanford University (2011).