Anh Tran

I am a third year PhD student working with Ben Bakker. My broad interest is Algebraic Geometry. More specifically, I'm thinking about Hodge theoretic aspects of deformations of representation schemes, and connections with Malcev completions.
Here is my CV.

This semester I'm organizing a reading group on moduli of K3 surfaces. I'm also a co-organizer for the Graduate Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

Contacts

Office: SEO 733, 851 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607
Email: atran58 (at) uic (dot) edu

Notes

These informal notes were made for talks, as I started learning the topics, so beware of errors!

Introduction to Jacobian Varieties. Based on PAWS 2023's notes, and Milne's book.
Introduction to Mumford-Tate group.
Generic Torelli for hypersurfaces. Based on Voisin's volume 2.
General curve of genus 6.
Decompositions in derived categories. Based on Huybrechts' book.
Deligne's finiteness theorem.

Teaching

Current teaching: This fall 2024, I'm a TA for MATH 210 - Calculus 3. My office hour is Tuesdays 9-10 am at the MSLC.

Past teaching:

Fall 2022 - Summer 2024: TA for MATH 125.
Rice University: TA for Honors Linear Algebra, Group Theory, Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry, Algorithms.

I also do some olympiad training, mostly during the breaks. I had a couple of students who went to the IMO, and dozens with national medals.