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Michael Landry

Washington University in Saint Louis
email: mlandryatwustldotedu
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I am a postdoc in the WUSTL math department. I finished my PhD at Yale in 2019. Before that, I was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley.

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

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. (REU)
Knot projections with a single multi-crossing. With Colin Adams et al. Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications Vol. 24 No. 3, 2015. (REU)
Perfect state transfer on quotient graphs. With Christino Tamon et al. Quantum Information and Computation Vol. 12 Nos. 3&4, 2012. (REU)

Talks: my upcoming and recent talks as well as video and/or slides, if available.

11/17: Rutgers seminar
10/27,29,30: visgat mini-course
10/23: WashU G/T seminar
10/3-10/4: AMS Eastern Sectional, special session on geometry of groups and 3-manifolds. Slides
July 21: GaTO.
- Slides.
- Video. The recorded portion concerns Veering triangulations and the Thurston norm. There was a second, unrecorded part of the talk in which I discussed A polynomial invariant for veering triangulations, joint with Yair Minsky and Samuel Taylor. The slides for both parts are included above.
June 1-14: NCNGT conference.
- Slides. I made them using Adobe Illustrator and a Wacom tablet.
- Video. I mostly talked about the paper Veering triangulations and the Thurston norm below.

Teaching:

In Spring 2021 I am teaching Foundations for Higher Mathematics (Math 310).
In Fall 2020 I am teaching Introduction to Analysis (Math 4111). The course webpage is on Canvas.
In Spring 2020 I taught Differential Equations (Math 217) and Matrix Algebra (Math 309; course website was on Canvas)
In Fall 2019 I taught Matrix Algebra (Math 309).