Samuel B. Isaacson

Samuel B. Isaacson

The University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Dept. RLM 8.100
Attn: Samuel B. Isaacson
2515 Speedway Stop C1200
Austin, TX 78712–1202

Email: isaacson@math.utexas.edu (PGP key)
Office: RLM 11.164

About me

I'm a research training group instructor at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Mathematics in the Geometry Research Group. From July 2009 through July 2010, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario. I received a PhD from Harvard University in June 2009; my advisor was Michael J. Hopkins. I graduated with an AB in mathematics from the University of Chicago in June 2004. My research interests include algebraic topology, homotopy theory, homotopical and homological algebra, and category theory.

Teaching

Spring 2013 M361: Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable
Fall 2012 M361K: Introduction to Real Analysis
Spring 2012 M340L: Matrices and Matrix Calculations
Fall 2011 M340L: Matrices and Matrix Calculations
Spring 2011 M408N: Differential Calculus for Scientists
Fall 2010 M408C: Differential and Integral Calculus

Seminars

  1. Last year, Andrew Blumberg and I ran a seminar on Hopkins-Kuhn-Ravenel character theory and power operations in elliptic cohomology.
  2. Dan Christensen, Enxin Wu, and I ran a seminar in Spring 2010 on the Steenrod algebra. Our goal was to give an exposition of some of the work of Palmieri and others on “stable homotopy over the Steenrod algebra” (including Palmieri's monograph by that title).

Preprints, papers, and notes

  1. Symmetric cubical sets
    J. Pure Appl. Algebra 215 (2011), no. 6, 1146–1173. [doi:10.1016/j.jpaa.2010.08.001] [arXiv:0910.4948v1 [math.AT]]
  2. A note on unenriched homotopy coends
    11 August 2009, notes on the Yoneda formula and Grothendieck derivators. [PDF]
  3. Cubical Homotopy Theory and Monoidal Model Categories
    PhD thesis, Harvard University, 2009, under the supervision of Michael J. Hopkins. [PDF]
  4. Minimal model structures and posets
    June 2008, notes on minimal Cisinski localizers. [PDF]

Curriculum vitæ

My research statement is online; my CV and teaching statement are available upon request.

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