These are course notes for a course Alex Wright taught in Winter 2022 on hierarchically hyperbolic spaces. These notes were co-written with Chenakkod, Haviland, Kausik, Shchetka, Wright, and Yu.

These are notes for the talk I gave on Margulis Superrigidity at the topology seminar at the University of Michigan in Fall 2019. This is more or less based on the sketch of the proof in Dave Witte Morris' Introduction to Arithmetic Groups.

These notes contain somewhat detailed proof of the Nielsen-Thurston classification of the elements of the mapping class group. Most of the proof is from Bruno Martelli's An Introduction to Geometric Topology , although I did need to fill in a few details on my own. However, these notes are still far from self-contained and should be treated more like a supplement to the section in Martelli's book.

These are notes I wrote for a talk in the student dynamics seminar at the University of Michigan on the proof and applications of the Howe-Moore theorem. In a nutshell, the Howe-Moore theorem says that if the action of a semisimple Lie group is ergodic, it is also mixing, which provides a quick and easy way to show some related actions are mixing, for instance, the geodesic flow on a finite volume hyperbolic surface.

These are notes I wrote for a talk in the student geometry seminar on the geodesic flow on symmetric spaces. The main point of this talk was to illustrate the the geometry of symmetric spaces, and the geodesic flow in particular can be completely understood in terms of the linear algebra of the associated semisimple Lie groups. As an application, we used just linear algebra to prove that the geodesic flow on the any finite volume rank 1 locally symmetric space (of non-compact type) is ergodic.

These are notes I took for Ralf Spatzier's course on entropy and its applications in dynamics. These notes are far from complete, and I hope to come back and complete these at a point in the future when I understand entropy better.

These are notes I wrote a talk on the Beltrami equation and how one can use it to construct Riemann surfaces, and an outline of the proof of when a solution exists.

This is the term paper I wrote on divisors and the construction of the Abel-Jacobi map. The first goal of this paper was to convince the reader that divisors on Riemann surfaces are interesting objects, and once that was done, construct the moduli space of all (principal) divisors, which turns out to be a complex torus (this is where the Abel-Jacobi map comes in).

This is the term paper I wrote outlining the link between toric varieties and convex polytopes. In particular, the goal of this paper was to work out a lot of examples going from convex polytopes to toric varieties, and more importantly, from toric varieties to convex polytopes. The latter as it turns out, can be done by constructing what is called the moment map. This led me to working out the convex polytopes for a class of toric varieties I did not know the convex polytopes of, namely the Hirzebruch surfaces.

Notes on the measure concentration half of the course on high dimensional probability I took in Winter 2021.

These are notes I live-TeXed in the course on Moduli of Curves, taught by Aaron Pixton in Winter 2020 term at the University of Michigan. These notes mostly focus on the topological and algebro-geometric aspects of the theory, and not the hyperbolic/complex analytic aspects. The TeX files for these notes are here. I would appreciate it if people send me corrections to errors in my notes via pull requests.

This is a condensed version of my senior thesis on the Laplacian on Riemannian manifolds. This article looks at the Hodge decomposition theorem, and some geometric applications of the theorem. It also outlines some results relating the eigenvalues of the Laplacian to geometric properties of the manifold like Ricci and scalar curvature.