Kirsten Wickelgren

Personal information

I am a fellow at Harvard University, supported by an American Institute of Mathematics Five-Year Fellowship. I was a graduate student of Gunnar Carlsson at Stanford University.

Department of Mathematics
Harvard University
One Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Email:
Office: 239
Curriculum Vitæ: `CV.pdf`

Research and Publications

I am interested in algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and number theory.

Papers:

n-Nilpotent obstructions to pi_1 sections of P^1-{0,1,infty} and Massey products, last modified: February 3, 2012.

3-Nilpotent obstructions to pi_1 sections for P^1_Q-{0,1,infty}. The Arithmetic of Fundamental Groups (PIA 2010), Springer-Verlag, to appear, last modified: July 18, 2011.

2-Nilpotent Real Section Conjecture, last modified: January 31, 2012.

Lower Central Series Obstructions to Homotopy Sections of Curves over Number Fields, thesis, last modified: July 21, 2009.

with Ravi Vakil, Universal Covering Spaces and Fundamental Groups in Algebraic Geometry as Schemes. Journal de Theorie des Nombres de Bordeaux, 23 no. 2 (2011), p. 489-526, last modified: July 18, 2011.

An older paper:

with Sarah Iams, Brian Katz, Cesar E. Silva, and Brian Street, On Weakly Mixing and Doubly Ergodic Nonsingular Actions, Colloq. Math 103 (2005), no. 2, 247-264.
(From the SMALL Research Experience for Undergraduates at Williams College.)

Teaching

Math 131 Topology I, fall 2011.
Math 137 Algebraic Geometry, spring 2010.

Other activities

AMS special session on rational points on varieties at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 5-6, 2012, co-organized with Jennifer Balakrishnan, Bjorn Poonen, and Bianca Viray.
PROMYS mentor, summer 2010. Research project for high school students on real algebraic curves: project description.