Cindy Tan

I am a PhD student at the University of Chicago, currently on the academic job market. My advisor is Benson Farb. Previously, I was an undergraduate at the University of British Columbia.

My research interests include complex ball quotients, curve arrangements on surfaces, K3 surfaces, and elliptic fibrations.

My email is csxtan@cindytan@uchicago.edu. Here is my CV.

Publications and Preprints

• The complex projective plane as a ball quotient

  • preprint, submitted for publication
  • arXiv

• Smallest nonabelian quotients of surface braid groups

  • (2024) Algebraic and Geometric Topology 24(7)
  • doi
  • arXiv

• Spaces of generators for matrix algebras with involution (with Ben Williams and Taeuk Nam)

  • (2022) Linear and Multilinear Algebra 71(8)
  • doi
  • arXiv

Invited Talks

• Small quotients of surface braid groups
  • Nearly Carbon Neutral Geometry and Topology Conference, Jun 2023
  • slides
• Surface braid groups and Heisenberg groups
  • Geometry and Topology Seminar, Georgia Tech, Feb 2023