I am a postdoc in the Topologie Lehrstuhl at Ruhr Universität in Bochum, and my mentor is Gerd Laures. I have research interests in algebraic topology, geometric representation theory and mathematical physics, and my work is centered on equivariant elliptic cohomology.
My PhD supervisor was Nora Ganter.
Email:
matt.spong at gmail.com
Address:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Universitätsstraße 150
44801 Bochum
Office:
Gebäude IB 3/167
Preprints and publications:
Comparison theorems for torus-equivariant elliptic cohomology theories (Ph.D. thesis, 2019)
A construction of complex analytic elliptic cohomology from double free loop spaces, Compositio Math. 157 (2021), 1853–1897. (arXiv)
Talks:
The MAA and AMS Joint Mathematics Meetings, Denver, Colorado, 16th January 2020 (slides)
Topology seminar, Ruhr Universität, Bochum, Germany, 26th November 2019
Johns Hopkins Topology Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, 18th November 2019
Notre Dame Topology Seminar, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA, 12th November 2019
UIUC Topology Seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, USA, 5th November 2019
Elliptic Cohomology Days, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, 2019
AMS Mathematics Research Community on Geometric Representation Theory and Equivariant Elliptic Cohomology at the Whispering Pines Conference Center, Rhode Island, June 2019
Annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, in November 2018 at the University of Adelaide (slides), and in December 2017 at Macquarie University, in Sydney
MSRI Summer School on Derived Geometry and Higher Categorical Structures in Geometry and Physics, at the University of Toronto, June 2018
Matrix conference on Geometric R-Matrices: From Geometry to Probability, University of Melbourne, Creswick campus, December 2017
Conference in Honour of Michael Murray, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, November 2017
Links:
Pure mathematics seminar archive at the University of Melbourne
Australian mathematical society (AustMS) homepage