Info

I'm currently a DPhil student at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, under the supervision of Jason Lotay. I'm interested in gauge theoretic approaches to problems in low dimensional topology, and links between low and high dimensional geometry. In particular, understanding relationships between different generalisations of the Seiberg-Witten equations.

Contact

alfred@alfredholmes.uk

Conferences Attended

Sept 2023 Simons Collaboration Special Holonomy Meeting and Workshop, New York and Stony Brook
Aug 2023 Peter Kronheimer Birthday Conference, Oxford
Jul - Aug 2023 Gauge Theory and it's applications to low dimensional topology, Regensburg
May 2023 BIRS Spinorial and octonionic aspects of G_2 and Spin(7) geometry, Banff
Jan 2023 Simons Collaboration Special Holonomy Algebraic Geometry, Gauge Theory and the Swampland Conjectures, Oxford
Sept 2022 Simons Collaboration Special Holonomy Meeting and Workshop, New York and Stony Brook
Aug 2022 ICTP Frontiers in Geometry and Topology Summer School, Trieste

Talks

November 2023 - Oxford Junior Geometry Seminar - Compactness problems in new gauge theories
May 2023 - BIRS Spinorial and octonionic aspects of G_2 and Spin(7) Geometry and July 2023 Regensburg - Spin(7) Instantons and the ADHM Construction short talk Video
August 2022 - ICTP Frontiers in Geometry and Topology Summer School Short Talks - Witten's proposal for a Gauge Theoretic description of the Jones Polynomial Video
March 2022 - Oxford Junior Geometry Seminar - Gauge Theory in Four, Eight and Five Dimensions.