ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Moduli spaces in low dimensions
The topological properties of low dimensional moduli spaces play a fundamental role across algebra, geometry, and topology. My research programme will build homotopical tools for moduli spaces of 3- and 4-manifolds, and moduli spaces of links in 3-manifolds, with my main applications being to manifold symmetries and configurations. The upgrading of discrete techniques for ‘an object’ to space-level techniques on ‘the moduli space of all such objects’ is a central theme. Moduli spaces of manifolds, or, equivalently, classifying spaces of manifold diffeomorphism groups, are foundational objects which classify smooth manifold bundles. The diffeomorphism group of a manifold—the group of…
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