Michael Landry

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
William Chauvenet Postdoctoral Lecturer
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Washington University in Saint Louis
mlandry at wustl dot edu
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Welcome to my web page!

Research: Here is a list of my papers on the ArXiv. The versions below are possibly more up to date.

• Flows, growth rates, and the veering polynomial
  With Yair Minsky and Samuel Taylor
  Preprint, 2021. 74 pages.
• A polynomial invariant for veering triangulations
  With Yair Minsky and Samuel Taylor
  Submitted, 2020. 50 pages.
• Veering triangulations and the Thurston norm: homology to isotopy
  Submitted, 2020. 41 pages.
• Stable loops and almost transverse surfaces
  To appear in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics. 39 pages.
• Taut branched surfaces from veering triangulations
  Algebraic and Geometric Topology Vol. 18 pp 1089-1114. 2018.
• On symplectic capacities of toric domains
  With Matthew McMillan and Emmanuel Tsukerman
  Involve. Vol 8 (2015), 665-676.
• Knot projections with a single multi-crossing
  With Colin Adams et al.
  Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications Vol. 24 No. 3, 2015.
• Perfect state transfer on quotient graphs
  With Christino Tamon et al.
  Quantum Information and Computation Vol. 12 Nos. 3&4, 2012.

Upcoming/recent talks:

• October 9-10: AMS Central Sectional. Speaking in the session "Developments in Knot Theory and Low-dimensional Topology."
• June 14-25: I spoke at the Nearly Carbon Neutral Geometric Topology Conference in the Hyperbolic Manifolds session.
  (I also coörganized the session Foliations, flows, and dynamics in 3-manifolds at the same conference with Ying Hu.)
• 4/21/21: Vanderbilt topology and group theory seminar
• 4/12/21: UT Austin topology seminar
• 3/31/21: Berkeley topology seminar

Video and slides:

• NCNGT talk: "Limits of dilations and depth one foliations." Video and slides.
• Slides from a talk I gave about the papers "Veering triangulations and the Thurston norm: homology to isotopy" and "A polynomial invariant of veering triangulations."

Teaching:

• Fall 2021: I will not be teaching.
• Spring 2021: I taught Foundations for Higher Mathematics (Math 310). The course webpage is on Canvas.
• Fall 2020: I taught Introduction to Analysis (Math 4111).
• Spring 2020: I taught Differential Equations (Math 217) and Matrix Algebra
• Fall 2019: I taught Matrix Algebra (Math 309).

For undergraduates