About
I am an assistant professor at UC Davis.
I am interested in algebraic combinatorics, particularly the combinatorics of total positivity (and its generalizations) and cluster algebras. Some topics of recent interest are Richardson and braid varieties and their cluster structures, amplituhedra, tropical positive flag varieties.
Before arriving at UC Davis, I was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT and University of Michigan, and a President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA. I received my PhD from UC Berkeley in May 2021.
Contact
Email: mshermanbennett at ucdavis.edu
Office: 3228, Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizing
I run the Davis combinatorics mailing list. If you would like to subscribe to the list, send an email to sympa at ucdavis.edu with subject "subscribe combinatorics YourFirstName YourLastName" and no text in the body. Alternately, email me.
In the 2024-2025 academic year, I am co-organizing the Davis Algebra and Discrete Math seminar. See this page for this quarter's schedule. If you would like to receive announcements for the seminar (as well as information about other combinatorics activities at Davis), join the combinatorics mailing list.