L. Rider

welcome and hello

I am off the job market. I have accepted an assistant professor position at University of Georgia.

I am a postdoctoral fellow supported by the National Science Foundation working at MIT (mentor: Roman Bezrukavnikov). My research lies in an area of algebra called geometric representation theory. I enjoy thinking about categories of perverse and coherent sheaves related to Lie theoretic data. Some keywords related to things I've been thinking about include affine Grassmannian, affine flag manifold, exotic sheaves on the Springer resolution, generalized Springer correspondence, geometric Satake, Lusztig's character sheaves, modular representation theory, semi-infinite flag manifold, and Whittaker sheaves..

I completed my Ph.D (08.09.13) under the direction of Pramod Achar at Louisiana State University. My thesis work involved proving formality for the Springer block of (constructible) sheaves on the nilpotent cone. This required the construction of a suitable mixed version of the (equivariant, l-adic) category of sheaves on the nilpotent cone. You can find a copy of my thesis here.

research articles

post date	co-author(s)	entry title
09.25.2014	with A. Russell	Perverse Sheaves on the Nilpotent Cone and Lusztig's Generalized Springer Correspondence, to appear in Proceedings of Southeastern Lie Theory Workshop Series, arXiv:1409.7132.
08.29.2014	with P. Achar	The affine Grassmannian and the Springer resolution in positive characteristic, arXiv:1408.7050.
05.08.2013	with P. Achar	Parity sheaves on the affine Grassmannian and the Mirkovic--Vilonen conjecture, to appear in Acta Math., arXiv:1305.1684.
06.19.2012	none	Formality for the nilpotent cone and a derived Springer correspondence, Adv. Math. 235 (2013), 208-236.

Past conferences and workshops

Special session entitled "Representations of Reductive Groups," Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting of the AMS, Rutgers University.
UT Austin 11/18 through 11/22; back porch seminar and the geometry seminar.
01/2016, Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle, Washington. Special session entitled Geometric and Categorical Methods in Representation Theory.
03/2016, Special session entitled "Lie Theory, Representation Theory and Geometry" at the AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting held at the University of Georgia (Athens, GA).
03.2016, AIM workshop on sheaves and modular representations of reductive groups in San Jose, California.
AIM style discussion session at the workshop "Algebraic Groups, Quantum Groups and Geometry" at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, May 24-27, 2016.
I spoke at the Workshop on Springer Theory and Related Topics held at UMass Amherst, October 9-11, 2015.
I attended the Park City Math Institute Summer 2015 session on Geometry of moduli spaces and representation theory in Utah in June and July 2015.
I attended and gave a talk at the Oberwolfach workshop on Enveloping Algebras and Geometric Representation Theory. (May 2015)
I spoke at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Workshop on Moduli Spaces, Derived Geometry, and Geometric Representation Theory. (October 2014)
I spoke at the Southeastern Lie Theory workshop. The topic of the workshop was Representation Theory of Lie Algebras and Lie Superalgebras.
I gave a talk at the Conference of the European Network in Representation Theory at Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse (Corsica, France, June 2014).

poetry

08.15.2014 Body, Remember... by C. P. Cavafy.
08.15.2014 Privilege of Being by Robert Hass.
08.20.2014 A Thank-You Note by Michael Ryan.
09.02.2014 Questions About the Wife by Rebecca Hazelton.
09.10.2014 Poems about Trees by K. Silem Mohammad.
09.12.2014 Tenderness by Jameson Fitzpatrick.
09.22.2014 After Suicide by Matt Rasmussen.
09.30.2014 Learning to Swim by Bob Hicok.
10.06.2014 The Talk by Gayle Danley.
10.14.2014 For a Traveler by Jessica Greenbaum.
10.22.2014 Samhain by Annie Finch
11.13.2014 The Consent by Howard Nemerov.
11.25.2014 Lethargy by Donald Justice.
12.10.2014 Poem by Donald Justice.
03.11.2015 Poetry is a Sickness by Ed Bok Lee.
03.25.2015 In Praise of Idleness by Paul Violi.
05.26.2015 Project for a Fainting by Brenda Shaughnessy.
06.02.2015 In the Secular Night by Margaret Atwood.
06.17.2015 Happiness by Paisley Rekdal.
07.28.2015 I am Trying to Break Your Heart by Kevin Young.
08.04.2015 Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast by Hannah Gamble.
09.15.2015 [love is more thicker than forget] by e. e. cummings
09.19.2015 A Vision upon the Fairy Queen by Sir Walter Ralegh.
09.19.2015 Memorial by Gina Myers.
09.19.2015 Jean Rhys by E. R. Kennedy.
09.29.2015 The Fountain by Charles Baudelaire.
09.29.2015 Are you the new person drawn toward me? by Walt Whitman.
10.07.2015 Like a Real Flame by Melissa Broder.
10.07.2015 Afterthoughts on the Lovers by Lisel Mueller.
10.14.2015 Sea Salt by Marla Miniano.
10.14.2015 Romantics by Lisel Mueller.
10.28.2015 To You Again by Mary Szybist.
11.02.2015 Such, Such is Death by Charles Hamilton Sorley.
11.05.2015 Gravity and Center by Henri Cole.
12.23.2015 Philosophies by Dorothea Lasky.
12.23.2015 The Acts of Youth by John Wieners.
01.28.2016 Diameter by Michelle Y. Burke.
06.01.2016 Flowers from a New Love after the Divorce by Paisley Rekdal.
06.01.2016 Glow Flesh by Victor Hernández Cruz.

Laura Rider@MIT

welcome and hello

research articles

Past conferences and workshops

poetry

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