Vance Blankers
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I am currently a Zelevinksy RTG Postdoctoral Fellow in the mathematics department at Northeastern University. Before that, I completed my dissertation in the mathematics department of Colorado State University, studying under Dr. Renzo Cavalieri. My research interests include algebraic geometry, enumerative geometry, moduli space theory, and combinatorial algebraic geometry.

For more information on my research, teaching experience, and life more broadly, use the links above. For a snapshot of roughly current, roughly math-related adventures, scroll down.
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You can contact me at v.blankers@northeastern.edu.

My CV is available here.

For fellow early career mathematicians: consider attending the Lunch in the Time of COVID series!
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​  Up next​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
  • WAGS (4/23 - 4/24)
  • NU Summer Math Research Program REU (5/10 - 6/29)
  • Richmond Geometry Festival (6/10 - 6/11)
  • Start of NU's FA21 Semester (9/8)
  • Lunch in the Time of COVID (repeating)
  • Geometry, Physics, and Representation Theory Seminar (repeating)
  • MAP (repeating)
  • BiSTRO (repeating)

 Just now​​
  • NU Math Club (3/5) - The triangle of triangles
  • JMM (1/6 - 1/9)
  • AMS Advocating for Students of Color in the Mathematics Community (12/11)​
  • AMS Advocating for Students of Color in Your Institution (11/13)
  • WAGS (11/13 - 11/14)
  • BATMOBYLE (11/9)
  • Election Day (11/3)
  • Boston College NT & AG Seminar (10/1) - Extremality of rational tails strata in \(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}\)
  • Madison Moduli Weekend (9/26 - 9/27)
  • Start of NU's FA20 Semester (9/9)
  • CSU AMS (9/2) - Life After CSU
  • ATOM (6/8 - 7/24)
  • AlCoVE (6/15 - 6/16)
  • Shut Down Stem (6/10) - More info here and here
  • Working and Learning In the Time of COVID For Students (6/5)
  • FRAGMENT Seminar (5/7) - Extremal Strata in \(\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}\)
  • End of NU's SP20 Semester (4/27)
  • Front Range Number Theory Day (4/25)
  • ​WAGON (in lieu of WAGS) (4/18 - 4/19)​

​ Current reading material
  • Mukai's program for curves on a K3 surface - E. Arbarello, A. Bruno, E. Sernesi
  • Rational curves in holomorphic symplectic varieties and Gromov-Witten invariants - G. Oberdieck, J. Shen, Q. Yin
  • Elliptic curves in hyper-Kähler varieties - D. Nesterov & G. Oberdieck
  • K-classes of Brill-Noether loci and a determinantal formula - D. Anderson, L. Chen, N. Tarasca
  • Rational maps between moduli spaces of curves and Gieseker-Petri divisors - G. Farkas
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