Peter Huxford

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About me

I am a fifth year graduate student in the Mathematics PhD program at the University of Chicago, advised by Benson Farb.

I am interested in the topology of spaces that come from algebraic geometry, such as configuration spaces and discriminant complements. Lately I've been thinking a lot about braid groups.

Research

• Braid groups, elliptic curves, and resolving the quartic [arXiv]
  Preprint, 2023
• Short presentations of finite simple groups [arXiv]
  Preprint, 2019

Invited talks

• Rigidity of resolving the quartic and other algebraic constructions
  The University of Auckland, July 2023
• Special configurations in algebraic geometry
  The University of Auckland, May 2021