Email: alangoldfarb [AT] berkeley [DOT] edu
1075 Evans Hall, University Dr
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
I'm a third-year PhD candidate in the mathematics department at UC Berkeley fortunate to be advised by Vera Serganova.
My research interests are in the representation theory of quantum groups and superalgebras, often in the context of geometry, tensor categories, and mathematical physics.
Before coming to Berkeley and moving my focus to representation theory, I was a student of Sarthak Parikh studying p-adic field theories at Caltech.
I was a Presidential Scholar at USC and received my B.S. in mathematics, summa cum laude, in 2023.
This semester, I'm organizing a seminar on quantum groups and affine Lie algebras. We meet every Tuesday at 2:00pm in Evans 939.
I co-organize our department's directed reading program. It is a great way for undergraduates to engage with research-level math and for graduate students to support math education.
I also organize our department's poker club and am an avid player. Feel free to reach out if interested.
Because I cannot ignore their increasing importance, I occasionally work on benchmarks for LLMs.
Please do not contact me with unsolicited offers for this kind of work.
I am supported by NSF GRFP no. 2023356980.
I am also grateful for the support of the Berkeley Connect Research Fellowship and the UC Chancellor's Fellowship.
On the Berkovich Projective Line and Coarse-Grainings of Non-Archimedean Product Spaces (e-print 2023).
TBA (2026).
CAIS HLE: A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities (Nature 2026).
Spring 2025: Math 98BC and Math 198BC, Berkeley Connect (instructor of record)
Fall 2024: Math 98BC and Math 198BC, Berkeley Connect (instructor of record)
Summer 2024: Math 54, Linear Algebra & Differential Equations with Arun Sharma
Fall 2022: Math 118, Fundamentals of Calculus with Danjoseph Quijada
Spring 2022: Math 226, Multivariable Calculus with Zhaoyu Zhang
