I'm a third year PhD student at DPMMS, Cambridge, working with Ivan Smith. My funding comes from the Faulkes Foundation.

See here for my CV.

Research

Interests:

• Lagrangian submanifolds of symplectic manifolds,
• Symplectic mapping class groups,
• Mathematical gauge theory.

Preprints:

• Lagrangian spheres in Del Pezzo surfaces (submitted to Journal of Topology)

Selected Talks:

• Nielsen Realisation
  (Graduate Geometry Tea on a punt)
• Vanishing Cycles and Mutation 1
  (DPMMS Reading Group)
• Symplectic mapping class groups: motivation and methods
  (TCC/Calf geometry day)
• Computations with holomorphic curves
  (DPMMS Homological Mirror Symmetry Reading Group)
• Symplectic actions of mapping class groups on representation varieties of curves
  (Poster session, Bonn International Graduate School)

Teaching

Current

There is no more teaching until next year!

Past

• 2008-2009 Groups (IA); Complex Analysis (IB)
• 2007-2008 Groups (IA); Geometry and Groups (II)
• 2006-2007 Algebraic Topology (II); Geometry (IB)

Old Notes

• Symplectic fillings of contact manifolds
• Lefschetz pencils
• Generalised cohomology theories
• Elliptic functions
• Covering spaces

Seminars

Reading Groups

• Vanishing Cycles & Mutation (11-12.30am Wednesdays, MR12)

Departmental

• DPMMS Differential Geometry Seminar
• DPMMS Algebraic Geometry Seminar
• DAMTP Mathematical Physics Seminar
• Imperial College Geometry & Topology Seminar
• COW and CALF

Links

Mathematical

• arXiv RSS: SG, AG, DG, GT, DS
• GRASP: some interesting streaming video lectures
• Frequently read papers

Non-Mathematical

• Run-of-the-Mill
• Ceilidh Band
• The Session
• Munky