Research

This is a page about what I think.

Interests

I am broadly interested in low dimensional topology and geometry. My current research involves Riemann surfaces, hyperbolic geometry and Teichmuller theory. My main motivation for doing mathematics is pictures and visualizations so I love anything with pictures!

Current projects

  • Distinguishing filling curves using metrics
  • We look at filling closed curves on hyperbolic surfaces and consider its length infima over the Teichmuller space of the surface. In particular explore relations between this infimum and self-intersection number of curves. We construct curves with same intersection number but different length infimum.

    This is joint work in progress with my advisor Ara Basmajian .
    Here are my slides from a talk I gave on my work.
    Also a postcard I made for a conference at ICERM.

  • Distances in pants and curve complexes
  • Joint work in progress with Puttipong Pongtanapaisan, Hahn Vo.
    Understanding relations between distances in curves and pants complexes with applications to handelbody links in 3-manifolds}

  • Non-simple curve complexes
  • Joint work in progress with Meenakshy Jyothis.
    Constructing complexes of curves that include non-simple curves in addition to simple ones.

  • Heegard splittings and pants decompositions
  • Joint work in progress with Tanushree Shah.
    Properties of complexity of Heegaard splittings defined using pants distances

    Past projects

    For my masters thesis I studied relations between contact structures and co-dimension one foliations on 3-manifolds via open book decomposions.
    Here are slides from my thesis defense.
    Thesis: Codimension one foliations related to contact topology in low-dimensional manifolds via Open Books.
    Advisor: Joan Licata , Australian National University