Alan Goldfarb

"C'est le destin! C'est la volonte! Les mathematiques, la mecanique quantique, les secrets de l'univers! Tout est ici! La vie est ardente avec sa beaute!"


About Me

I'm a third-year PhD candidate in the mathematics department at UC Berkeley fortunate to be advised by Vera Serganova.
I recieved my B.S. in mathematics from USC summa cum laude. While an undergraduate, I was a student of
Sarthak Parikh as a visiting researcher at Caltech.
Please do not contact me with unsolicited, non-academic job offers.

My research interests are in representation theory, possibly in the context of geometry or mathematical physics.
More specifically, I've recently started to think about quantum groups at roots of unity and supergroups (and quantum supergroups).
I no longer work on p-adic field theories, but it is still an interesting and active area of research that you can read about
here!
I'm also deeply invested in international collaboration over mathematics. Ask me about it!

I am grateful for the support of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Berkeley Connect Research Fellowship, and the UC Chancellor's Fellowship.

Email: alangoldfarb [AT] berkeley [DOT] edu

1075 Evans Hall, University Dr
Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

My CV

Research and Other Writing

Undergrad Research

On the Berkovich Projective Line and Coarse-Grainings of Non-Archimedean Product Spaces.
Snowfall Prediction Models Built From Natural Radiation. (Available upon request with data redacted)

Misc

Mississippi Straddle Dynamics.
Some notes on Lie theory.
Humanity's Last Exam.
Milnor Excision and Beauville-Laszlo Formal Gluing.
Approximating the All-Pairs Geodesic Matrix.

Seminars Organized

Quantum Groups and Affine Lie Algebras, Spring 2026
Supersymmetry and Supergeometry, Fall 2024
Geometric Representation Theory Learning Seminar, Spring 2024

Teaching

Graduate Student Instructor - UC Berkeley

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

Teaching Assistant - USC

Fall 2022: Math 118, Fundamentals of Calculus with Danjoseph Quijada
Spring 2022: Math 226, Multivariable Calculus with Zhaoyu Zhang



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