Michael P. Landry

Welcome to my web page!
I am currently an NSF postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis.
In January and February 2023 I will be a Leibniz Fellow at Oberwolfach.
Starting in July 2023 I will be an Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University.
You can get in touch with me at mlandry [at] wustl [dot] edu.

• CV
  • Assistant Professor (tenure track) at SLU 2023-
  • NSF Postdoc at WashU 2021-23
  • William Chauvenet Postdoc at WashU 2019-23
  • PhD Yale 2019
  • BA UC Berkeley 2013
  • Full CV
• Visuals
  • A poster I made about the paper Endperiodic maps via pseudo-Anosov flows with Minsky and Taylor (in progress). This was for a poster session at the workshop "Flexibility and Rigidity in Dynamical Systems" at the Simons Center in March 2022.
  • NCNGT 2021 talk: "Limits of dilatations 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."
  • A mess of doodles from the time I spent working on the paper Flows, growth rates, and the veering polynomial, which was around the time I bought an iPad. Since then I have gone mostly gone back to thinking in a physical notebook.
• Collaborators
  • Yair Minsky
  • Samuel Taylor
  • Chi Cheuk Tsang
• For undergraduates

Papers

The versions below are at least as up to date as the ones on the arxiv.

• Flows, growth rates, and the veering polynomial
  With Yair Minsky and Samuel Taylor
  Submitted, 2021. 73 pages. arxiv version


• A polynomial invariant for veering triangulations
  With Yair Minsky and Samuel Taylor
  Submitted, 2020. 50 pages. arxiv version


• Veering triangulations and the Thurston norm: homology to isotopy
  Advances in Mathematics, Volume 396, 2022. 53 pages. journal link, arxiv version.


• Stable loops and almost transverse surfaces
  Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, to appear. 39 pages. link


• Taut branched surfaces from veering triangulations
  Algebraic and Geometric Topology Vol. 18 pp 1089-1114. 2018. arxiv version


• On symplectic capacities of toric domains
  With Matthew McMillan and Emmanuel Tsukerman
  Involve. Vol 8 (2015), 665-676. arxiv version


• Knot projections with a single multi-crossing
  With C. Adams, T. Crawford, B. DeMeo, A. Tong Lin, M. Montee, S. Park, S. Venkatesh, and F. Yhee
  Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications Vol. 24 No. 3, 2015. arxiv version


• Perfect state transfer on quotient graphs
  With E. Fredette, J. Fuller, M. Opperman, C. Tamon, and A. Tollefson
  Quantum Information and Computation Vol. 12 Nos. 3&4, 2012. arxiv version

In Preparation

• Endperiodic maps, splitting sequences, and branched surfaces
  With Chi Cheuk Tsang
• A refinement of the transverse surface theorem
  With Yair Minsky and Samuel Taylor
• Endperiodic automorphisms via pseudo-Anosov flows
  With Yair Minsky and Samuel Taylor