I am a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, where I am a member of the Geometry and Topology group in the Hodge Institute, working with Tom Leinster. My research has to do with numerical and homological invariants of metric spaces that derive from an interpretation of a metric space as a type of enriched category. More generally, I am interested in enriched category theory and its applications within and beyond pure mathematics.
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This year I am co-organizing, with Ruben Van Belle, The Categorical Late Lunch, Edinburgh's informal category theory seminar.
Last year I co-organized, with Guy Boyde and Aryan Ghobadi, a meeting for junior researchers called Topics in Category Theory: A Spring School. You'll find the programme of events here, and the conference photograph here.
'The maximum entropy of a metric space' (with Tom Leinster), arXiv:1908.11184, 2019; Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, to appear
Nov 2020 | 'Maximum entropy, uniform measure' | ML@CL seminar, Cambridge Computer Laboratory |
Jun 2020 | 'Magnitude homology, from scratch' | Pure PGR seminar, Southampton |
Dec 2019 | 'Diversity and magnitude' | LMS Applied Algebra and Geometry research network, Oxford |
Nov 2019 | 'Hochschild homology for enriched categories' | Hodge Club, Edinburgh |
Jul 2019 | 'The maximum diversity of a compact metric space' | Magnitude 2019, ICMS, Edinburgh |
Apr 2019 | 'The magnitude and diversity of a metric space' | TopApp workshop, IST Austria |
Apr 2019 | 'The magnitude of an enriched category' | GEARS seminar, Edinburgh/Glasgow |
Mar 2019 | 'Diversity: developments in the biology of mathematics' | Hodge Club, Edinburgh |
Jan 2019 | 'Building complexes from point clouds' | Persistent homology working seminar, Edinburgh |
Mar 2018 | 'Commutative monads' | Part III seminar, Cambridge |
As a teaching assistant in the School of Mathematics:
Autumn 2019, 2020 | Accelerated Proofs and Problem Solving |
Spring 2019, 2020 | Honours Algebra |
Autumn 2019 | Honours Analysis Skills |
As a teaching assistant in the School of Economics:
Autumn 2019, 2020 | Advanced Mathematical Economics |
As a supervisor for the undergraduate vacation research programme in the School of Mathematics:
Summer 2020 | Six-week project on 'Categorified linear algebra and the Legendre-Fenchel transform', based on this paper by Simon Willerton. |
Before joining the University of Edinburgh in September 2018 I took the MASt in Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, where I wrote my Part III essay under the supervision of Martin Hyland. Prior to that, I studied for a BSc with the Open University and King's College London.
I haven't always been a maths student. From 2011 through 2016 I worked as a welfare rights adviser with the Child Poverty Action Group, Drumchapel Money Advice Centre and WestGAP, and from 2005 until 2012-ish I (also) worked as a producer of music and arts projects with Arika and Tracer Trails. I have an undergraduate degree from the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
As my outreach and exchange activities suggest, I'm interested in talking with non-mathematicians about what mathematics has to do with understanding the social world, and I'm a fan of pedagogical experiments that aim to make such conversations possible.
Email firstname.lastname@ed.ac.uk
This page was last updated on 8 December 2020. †Photo by Christian Töpfner.