Emily Peters

Graduate student in mathematics

Office:

1049 Evans Hall
Mathematics Department
University of California at Berkeley
Email: eep AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu

My husband has a job at the University of Melbourne this year, so I'll be spending some time there too.

Research

I study planar algebras and subfactors of von Neumann algebras with Professor Vaughan Jones. I'm particularly interested in generators-and-relations constructions of planar algebras, and the Haagerup subfactor. For more information, have a look at some overhead slides from some recent talks, an audio recording, or a preprint.

Papers and Preprints

Skein Theory for the D_{2n} planar algebra, with S. Morrison and N. Snyder. preprint.

Selected Talks

Constructing the Haagerup subfactor with planar algebras, at the Shanks Workshop on Subfactors and Planar Algebras, April 20, 2008. Overhead Slides

Constructing the Haagerup subfactor with planar algebras, at the Fields Institute, October 31, 2007. Overhead slides; audio recording.

Exceptional Tensor Categories in Subfactor Theory, at the MFO (Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach) Arbeitsgemeinschaft on Algebraic structures in conformal field theories, April 4, 2007. Extended Abstract.

Platonic Solids in more dimensions, at the Davis Math Circle, March 10, 2007. Full text with illustrations available.

Examples of subfactors, part III: The Haagerup subfactor, in UC Berkeley Subfactors seminar, February 9, 2007. Abstract.

Examples of subfactors, part I, in UC Berkeley Subfactors seminar, April 21, 2006. Abstract.

Teaching:

Spring 2008: I was the GSI for Math 185 (Complex Analysis).

I'm a former student and former and future staff member of the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, a summer program for mathematically inclined high school students. free hit counter script