I am a second year PhD student in mathematics at the University of Chicago. My advisor is Alex Eskin. I received my bachelors degree from the University of Waterloo, where I did research with Ken Davidson and Kathryn Hare. You can reach me at alexonlinemail at g-mail.

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Preprints

Wright, Alex. Sums of Adjoint Orbits.
Wright, Alex. The Tits Alternative: An Elementary Exposition.
Davidson, Kenneth and Wright, Alex. Operator Algebras with Unique Preduals, to appear in Canadian Math. Bull.
Wright, Alex. Regular Orbital Measures on Lie Algebras. Colloq. Math. 113 (2008), no. 1, 1--11.

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Talks

Sums of Adjoint Orbits in SU(n). Given to the Farb and Friends Student Seminar, Oct. 5, 2009.

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Undergraduate Projects

Beurling's Theorem
The Conjugacy Theorems
Convolution of Volume Measures
Homotopy Groups of Spheres: A Very Basic Introduction
The Poincare-Hopf Theorem (with Kael Dixon)
Sard's Theorem
Sperner's Lemma and Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
Transcendence Degree

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Last updated: October 2009.