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