Hi, I'm Sam Silver

A bit about me: I'm a passionate third-year pure mathematics major at UMass Amherst. Broadly speaking, I'm mainly interested in finding and understanding the geometric structure behind things, and using that geometric understanding to solve problems. I really enjoy algebraic topology, especially ideas related to homotopy, and I'm interested in learning about ways this can be applied to mathematical physics. In the same vein, I'm eager to learn more about (higher) category theory, and to build a basic familiarity with both algebraic and differential geometry.

• My curriculum vitae (pdf download)
• My Linkedin page
• A database of curve-enhanced matroids in search of a counterexample to the Fulton-Faber conjecture (work under the guidance of Jenia Tevelev)
• Notes (pdf download) on monoidal categories and the Morita category construction, written for an independent study with Martina Rovelli
• A paper on twists (square-zero odd elements) of the 2d superconformal algebras written with Nikos Orginos and Nathaniel Reid under the direction of Owen Gwilliam and Arthur Wang for the 2023 UMass mathematics REU (pdf download from Owen Gwilliam's website)