I am an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University, sponsored by Professor Tara Holm. Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation): land acknowledgement.
Next year, I will be an Assistant Professor in the UC Riverside Department of Mathematics.
My interests are in symplectic and contact geometry and interactions with low-dimensional topology and dynamics. Specifically, I use embedded contact homology to understand Reeb dynamics on contact three-manifolds, with applications to dynamics on surfaces and four-dimensional symplectic embeddings. MSC 53, 57, and occasionally 37.
Media: recently, an article about my research on 4D symplectic embeddings appeared in Quanta.
In 2019 I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where my thesis advisor was Professor Michael Hutchings. From 2019-2021 I was an RTG Lovett Instructor at Rice University, mentored by Professor Jo Nelson.
Information
- My CV, a Fall 2023 research statement, and a postcard summary of my research.
- Email: morgan.weiler@cornell.edu
- Office: 571 Malott Hall
Upcoming Conferences and Travel
- University of Rochester Geometry Seminar, April 12, 2024, Rochester, NY.
- Louisiana State University Geometry and Topology Seminar, April 24, 2024, Baton Rouge, LA.
- Cornell Topology Festival, May 3-5, 2024, Ithaca, NY.
You may have met me recently at...
- Joint Georgia Tech-UGA Topology Seminar, October 16, 2023, Atlanta, GA.
- AMS-AWM Special Session for Women and Gender Minorities in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology, Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 5, 2024, San Francisco, CA.
Videos
My mathematical YouTube channel.
6/5/20: I spoke about Infinite staircases for Hirzebruch surfaces in the Symplectic Zoominar. This 20-minute Zoom talk can be viewed here; slides. The main theorem is now stronger than it was on 6/5/20.
5/1/20: I spoke about Embedded contact homology of prequantization bundles in the Western Hemisphere Virtual Symplectic Seminar with Jo Nelson. This Zoom talk can be viewed here; slides.
12/3/18: I spoke about my thesis work Mean action of periodic orbits of area-preserving annulus diffeomorphisms at the IAS. This talk can be viewed here.