Past Junior Research Fellows

2025

Saikat Mondal (IIT Kanpur): Carroll and large-N March 3, 2025 -- May 2, 2025 Junior Research Fellow

Fufa Beyene (Kotebe U of Education): The Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon (CSP) - Postponed March 1, 2025 -- April 30, 2025 Junior Research Fellow

Isao Sauzedde (U of Warwick): Gauge theory and Gaussian multiplicative chaos Jan. 5, 2025 -- March 5, 2025 Junior Research Fellow

2024

Kaushlendra Kumar (Queen Mary U of London): IKKT model & Gravity June 7, 2024 -- June 25, 2024 Junior Research Fellow

Eduard Schesler (FernUniversität Hagen): Grothendieck pairs and Grigorchuk’s group May 1, 2024 -- June 30, 2024 Junior Research Fellow

Mariem Magdy Ali Mohamed (U of London): The asymptotic structure of spacetimes May 1, 2024 -- June 30, 2024 Junior Research Fellow

Victoria Sánchez Muñoz (U of Galway): The Bell- like inequalities for interference into quantum games May 1, 2024 -- June 30, 2024 Junior Research Fellow

Abhiram M. Kidambi (MPI MiS, Leizpig): Novel mathematical structures in 3d quantum gravity April 1, 2024 -- April 30, 2024 Junior Research Fellow

Tanushree Shah (U of Glasgow): Low-dimensional Topology Specifically contact Topology Feb. 1, 2024 -- April 30, 2024 Junior Research Fellow

2023

Onirbam Islam (U of Potsdam): Feynman Green’s Operators on a Black Hole Spacetime June 24, 2023 -- July 15, 2023 Junior Research Fellow

Fiona Torzewska (U of East Anglia): From motion groupoids to defect TQFT April 1, 2023 -- Sept. 30, 2023 Junior Research Fellow

Sergio Gómez (U of Pavia): Structure-preserving methods for nonlinear PDEs March 13, 2023 -- Sept. 13, 2023 Junior Research Fellow

Kaushlendra Kumar (U of Hannover): IKKT model & Gravity March 5, 2023 -- June 15, 2023 Junior Research Fellow

Carlos Pérez Sánchez (U Heidelberg): Random finite gauge matrix geometries: numerical and analytic aspects March 1, 2023 -- Sept. 12, 2023 Junior Research Fellow

Cesare Tresca (U dell'Aquila): Dark matteR dEtection viA novel Materials (DREAM) March 1, 2023 -- April 30, 2023 Junior Research Fellow

Şeyma Karadereli (Bogaziçi U): Real algebraic overtwisted contact structures on 3-spheres with negative invariants Feb. 1, 2023 -- June 12, 2023 Junior Research Fellow

Yang Yang (Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach): Landau–Ginzburg models and the string-net construction of CFT correlators Feb. 1, 2023 -- May 19, 2023 Junior Research Fellow

2022

Vincentas Mulevicius (U Hamburg): Defects in Douglas-Reutter 4-dimensional TQFT Oct. 1, 2022 -- Dec. 21, 2022 Junior Research Fellow

Barbara Bošnjak (U Zagreb): The unitarizability problem through Arthur packets Sept. 1, 2022 -- Oct. 1, 2022 Junior Research Fellow

Sudipta Dutta (IIT Kanpur): Holography of Asymptotically flat spacetimes Sept. 1, 2022 -- Dec. 31, 2022 Junior Research Fellow

Aliaksandr Hancharuk (U Lyon): Higher Gauge Theories - Part 2 July 31, 2022 -- Aug. 30, 2022 Junior Research Fellow

Judith Alcock-Zeilinger (Independent Researcher): Multiplet bases for resummation — understanding structures of color evolution July 11, 2022 -- Nov. 10, 2022 Junior Research Fellow

Lorenzo Del Re (Georgetown U): Dimensional Crossover of Layered Strongly Correlated Ultracold Fermi Gases - Part 3 June 6, 2022 -- June 20, 2022 Junior Research Fellow

Alexander Evetts (Heriot-Watt U, Edinburgh): Conjugacy growth in finitely generated nilpotent groups - Part 2 May 2, 2022 -- May 26, 2022 Junior Research Fellow

2021

Stephan Eckstein (U Hamburg): Numerics of Adapted Transport and Applications to Mathematical Finance Nov. 29, 2021 -- Jan. 31, 2022 Junior Research Fellow

Davide Pradovera (CSQI, EPFL, Lausanne): Model Order Reduction of parametric PDEs with meromorphic structure based on minimal rational approximation Oct. 20, 2021 -- Nov. 20, 2021 Junior Research Fellow

Hamed Barzegar (U Vienna): Mathematical Analysis of Dark Matter Oct. 1, 2021 -- March 1, 2022 Junior Research Fellow

Marius A. Oancea (U of Potsdam): Polarization-Dependent Gravitational Lensing Sept. 1, 2021 -- Dec. 31, 2021 Junior Research Fellow

Paola Rioseco (CMM, Chile): Dynamics and Stabilities in the Accretion Disk of Relativistic Kinetic Gas Particles in Kerr Geometry Sept. 1, 2021 -- Dec. 31, 2021 Junior Research Fellow

Francesco Cattafi (KU Leuven): Cartan geometries via Pfaffian groupoids Jan. 11, 2021 -- May 11, 2021 Junior Research Fellow

2020

Alexander Evetts (Heriot-Watt U, Edinburgh): Conjugacy growth in finitely generated nilpotent groups - Part 1 Oct. 14, 2020 -- Dec. 18, 2020 Junior Research Fellow

Aliaksandr Hancharuk (U Lyon): Higher Gauge Theories - Part 1, Part 2 postponed Aug. 24, 2020 -- Sept. 25, 2020 Junior Research Fellow

Sebastian Falkner (Goethe University of Frankfurt): Heterogeneous cavitation on graphitic surfaces in a Lennard‐Jones fluid and water at negative pressures Aug. 1, 2020 -- Nov. 30, 2020 Junior Research Fellow

Alessandra Pluda (University of Pisa): Nonlocal Minimal Partitions - postponed April 14, 2020 -- April 30, 2020 Junior Research Fellow

Erfan Esmaeili Fakhabi (IPM, Tehran): Soft Charges in Anti de Sitter Space Jan. 1, 2020 -- April 30, 2020 Junior Research Fellow

2019

Lorenzo Del Re (Georgetown U): Dimensional Crossover of Layered Strongly Correlated Ultracold Fermi Gases Dec. 1, 2019 -- Jan. 31, 2020 Junior Research Fellow

Edward Mortimer (U Nottingham): The Effect of Hydrogen Contamination on the Formation Rates of Stone-Wales Defects in Graphene June 7, 2019 -- July 7, 2019 Junior Research Fellow

Sergio Hörtner (U Autónoma de Madrid) : Hidden Symmetries of Gravity in Cosmological Scenarios and Applications to Holography March 1, 2019 -- June 30, 2019 Junior Research Fellow

Pulastya Parekh (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur): Scattering Tensionless Strings, and its Effect on Spacetime Feb. 1, 2019 -- May 31, 2019 Junior Research Fellow

Arindam Biswas (U Vienna): Expander Graphs and Non-linear Spectral Gap Jan. 1, 2019 -- April 30, 2019 Junior Research Fellow

Zahra Ahmadian Dehaghani (Sharif U of Technology, Teheran): Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Knotted Polymers in Elongational Flow Jan. 1, 2019 -- April 30, 2019 Junior Research Fellow

2018

Jarrod Lewis Williams (Queen Mary U of London): Exact and Approximate Killing Symmetries in General Relativity: Dain Invariants on Black Hole Spacetimes and Integrability of KID Equations Nov. 1, 2018 -- Feb. 28, 2019 Junior Research Fellow

Mattia Ornaghi (U Milano): Dg enhancements via A∞-categories Oct. 15, 2018 -- Feb. 15, 2019 Junior Research Fellow

Andreas Zöttl (ESPCI Paris): Coarse-grained hydrodynamic simulations of driven colloids in macromolecular polymer solutions Sept. 1, 2018 -- Dec. 31, 2018 Junior Research Fellow

Angela Carnevale (U Bielefeld): Enumeration of Matrices, Hyperoctahedral Groups, and Generating Functions July 30, 2018 -- Nov. 30, 2018 Junior Research Fellow

Matteo Cavaleri (Unicusano U, Rome): Approximations and computations in infinite groups July 15, 2018 -- Sept. 15, 2018 Junior Research Fellow

Zahra Mirzaiyan (Isfahan U of Technology): Soft Hair on Black Holes in Four Dimensional Space-Times July 1, 2018 -- Oct. 31, 2018 Junior Research Fellow

Bert Verbeke (KU Leuven): A Unified Study of Geometrically and Topologically interesting Automorphisms of Lie Algebras May 26, 2018 -- July 1, 2018 Junior Research Fellow

Layne Frechette (UC, Berkeley): Theory and Simulation of a Microscopic Model for Cation Exchange in Nanocrystals April 9, 2018 -- May 11, 2018 Junior Research Fellow

Vikas S. Krishnamurthy (Federal U of Pernambuco, Recife): New Frontiers in Applied Complex Analysis: Compressible Fluid Flows in multiply connected Domains April 1, 2018 -- July 31, 2018 Junior Research Fellow

2017

Annegret Burtscher (U Bonn), JRF Project: Lorentzian curvature revisited July 16, 2017 -- Aug. 19, 2017 Junior Research Fellow

Peter Wirnsberger (U of Cambridge), JRF Project: Thermally Induced Monopoles May 8, 2017 -- June 16, 2017 Junior Research Fellow

Madhusudan Manjunath (Queen Mary U of London), JRF Project: Topics in Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry April 1, 2017 -- July 21, 2017 Junior Research Fellow

2016

Riccardo Scala (U of Pavia): JRF Project: Renormalization in dislocation mechanics Sept. 1, 2016 -- Dec. 31, 2016 Junior Research Fellow