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

Research

I study planar algebras and subfactors of von Neumann algebras with Professor Vaughan Jones. I'm working on constructing the Haagerup subfactor using planar algebras, as well as other subfactors. Overhead slides from some recent talks (and an audio recording!) are linked below.

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'm the GSI for Math 185 (Complex Analysis) this semester. I have office hours in 891 Evans from 12:30pm-5:30pm on Mondays and Tuesdays (starting January 28).

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