Ryan Wandsnider
Office: PMA 10.134, Math 206A.14
Email: rjwandsnider[at]utexas.edu, rw3239[at]columbia.edu
I am a fourth year math PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. My advisor is Lucas Mason-Brown. This year I am a visiting student at Columbia University.
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
I study representation theory; more specifically, I work on problems adjacent to the classification of the unitary dual for real reductive groups.
Expository Works
- An Encyclopedia of Real Groups (in progress)
- UT Austin algebra I bootcamp notes (2026) pdf
- An intuitive introduction to spectral sequences (2022) pdf
- A detailed exposition for the pseudo-arc (2021) pdf
- The fundamental theorem of algebra over the tropical semiring (2020) pdf
Teaching
I am not teaching for the year of 2026-2027.
Fun
I am an avid fan of the board game Dominion.
