Benjamin Bakker

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
Courant Instructor
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University

email: last name-at-cims-dot-nyu-dot-edu
phone: (212) 998-3210
office: 619 Warren Weaver Hall
mail: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
        New York University
        251 Mercer Street
        New York, N.Y. 10012-1185, USA

Curriculum vitae (June 2011)

Research interests

Algebraic geometry, moduli theory, holomorphic symplectic varieties, Gromov-Witten theory, wall-crossing phenomena, mirror symmetry, homological algebra.

Teaching

• Spring 2013: Number Theory (MATH-GA 2210.001)

• Fall 2012: Theory of Numbers (MATH-UA 248.001)

• Fall 2011: Algebra I (MATH-GA 2130.001)

• Spring 2010: Topology II (MATH-GA 2320.001)

• Fall 2010: Calculus I (V63.0121.026.FA10)

Publications and preprints

• Lagrangian n-planes in holomorphic symplectic varieties, with A. Jorza, arXiv:1111.0047 (November 2011). Submitted.

• Lagrangian hyperplanes in holomorphic symplectic varieties: computational appendix, with A. Jorza, arXiv:1111.0047 (November 2011).

• Higher rank stable pairs on K3 surfaces, with A. Jorza, arXiv:1103.3727.
  To appear in Communications in Number Theory and Physics, Volume 6, Number 4.

• My thesis from Princeton University, under Rahul Pandharipande:
  Hodge polynomials of moduli spaces of stable pairs on K3 surfaces (June 2010).

Recent talks

• Rational curves on a modular surface and a conjecture of Mazur, NYU Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Courant Institute, May 2013.

• Towards a classification of embedded Lagrangian n-planes, Hyperkahler Geometry, Simons Center, Stony Brook University, October 2012.

• Lagrangian hyperplanes in holomorphic symplectic varieties, UCSD, January 2012.

• Lagrangian hyperplanes in holomorphic symplectic varieties, Caltech, January 2012.

• Monodromy orbits of Lagrangian hyperplanes, Courant Institute, October 2011.

• Lagrangian hyperplanes in holomorphic symplectic varieties, Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar, October 2011.

• Higher stable pair invariants on K3 surfaces, Holomorphic Symplectic Varieties, June 2011.

• Moduli spaces of stable pairs on K3 surfaces, Courant Institute, November 2010.

• Through the Looking-Glass: Homological Mirror Symmetry of Elliptic Curves, Princeton University, October 2010.

• Gromov-Witten theory and sheaf-counting invariants of K3 surfaces, Courant Institute, October 2010.

• Higher Donaldson-Thomas invariants of K3 surfaces, Columbia University, September 2010.

• Hodge polynomials of moduli spaces of sheaves on K3 surfaces, Princeton University, March 2010.

Seminars

• Organizing Joint Columbia-CUNY-NYU Number Theory Seminar, 2011-2012.