I'm Jacob Gaiter, a 4th year PhD Candidate at UT Austin (Hook 'Em!) being jointly advised by Tim Perutz and Bernd Siebert. Primarily I am interested in symplectic geometry and homological mirror symmetry but I am also broadly interested in differential geometry, algebraic topology, and mathematical physics. My current research centers the study of the symplectic geometry of normal crossings degenerations and how they relate to homological mirror symmetry.