Aaron Mazel-Gee

Hello there! My name is Aaron. I like to do math. It is my job.

I am a Sherman Fairchild Instructor in Mathematics at Caltech. My office is 374 Linde Hall.

My research centers around factorization homology, especially as it relates to (i) quantum invariants in low-dimensional topology, and (ii) algebraic K-theory, elliptic cohomology, and chromatic homotopy theory.

My work is partially supported by NSF grant DMS-2105031 (Factorization homology and low-dimensional topology).

My email address is etale.site@aaron, except that you need to swap what comes before and after the "@" symbol.

My last name is pronounced "may-zell jee".

I am the organizer of Caltech's geometry & topology seminar. All are welcome to join.


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  1. A braided (∞,2)-category from Soergel bimodules, with Yu Leon Liu, David Reutter, Catharina Stroppel, and Paul Wedrich
    To appear.

    Here is a video of a talk about this material (starting a minute or two in, due to a technical glitch). Updated slides are here -- those contain a (very sketchy) sketch of the proof, which I didn't discuss in the recorded talk.

    And here is a video of Catharina's 2022 ICM plenary address (whose accompanying survey article is here). She gives a broad overview of TQFT and categorification, and ends by putting our main theorem into that context.

  2. Perverse schobers and 3d mirror symmetry, with Benjamin Gammage and Justin Hilburn, 02/14/2022
    arxiv:2202.06833, 43 pages.
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  3. Derived Mackey functors and Cpn-equivariant cohomology, with David Ayala and Nick Rozenblyum, 05/06/2021
    arxiv:2105.02456, 84 pages.
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  4. A universal characterization of noncommutative motives and secondary algebraic K-theory, with Reuben Stern, 04/08/2021
    arxiv:2104.04021, 80 pages.
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  5. Dualizable objects in stratified categories and the 1-dimensional bordism hypothesis for recollements, with Grigory Kondyrev and Jay Shah, 03/29/2021
    arxiv:2103.15785, 61 pages.

  6. Stratified noncommutative geometry, with David Ayala and Nick Rozenblyum, 10/31/2019
    Memoirs of the AMS, to appear.
    arxiv:1910.14602, 236 pages.
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  7. E automorphisms of motivic Morava E-theories, 01/17/2019
    arxiv:1901.05713, 6 pages.

  8. Goerss--Hopkins obstruction theory for ∞-categories, 12/18/2018
    arxiv:1812.07624, 54 pages.

  9. The geometry of the cyclotomic trace, with David Ayala and Nick Rozenblyum, 10/17/2017
    arxiv:1710.06409, 48 pages.
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  10. Factorization homology of enriched ∞-categories, with David Ayala and Nick Rozenblyum, 10/17/2017
    arxiv:1710.06414, 68 pages.
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  11. A naive approach to genuine G-spectra and cyclotomic spectra, with David Ayala and Nick Rozenblyum, 10/17/2017
    arxiv:1710.06416, 84 pages.

  12. Model ∞-categories III: the fundamental theorem, 10/16/2015
    New York Journal of Mathematics, 27 (2021), 551-599.
    arxiv:1510.04777, 34 pages.

  13. Model ∞-categories II: Quillen adjunctions, 10/15/2015
    New York Journal of Mathematics, 27 (2021), 508-550.
    arxiv:1510.04392, 29 pages.

  14. Hammocks and fractions in relative ∞-categories, 10/14/2015
    Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures, 13 (2018), no. 2, 321-383.
    arxiv:1510.03961, 43 pages.

  15. On the Grothendieck construction for ∞-categories, 10/13/2015
    Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 223 (2019), no. 11, 4602-4651.
    arxiv:1510.03525, 41 pages.

  16. The universality of the Rezk nerve, 10/12/2015
    Algebraic & Geometric Topology, 19 (2019) no. 7, 3217-3260.
    arxiv:1510.03150, 26 pages.

  17. A user's guide to co/cartesian fibrations, 10/08/2015
    Graduate Journal of Mathematics, 4 (2019), no. 1, 42-53.
    arxiv:1510.02402, 16 pages.

  18. Quillen adjunctions induce adjunctions of quasicategories, 01/13/2015
    New York Journal of Mathematics, 22 (2016), 57-93.
    arxiv:1501.03146, 20 pages.

  19. Model ∞-categories I: some pleasant properties of the ∞-category of simplicial spaces, 12/29/2014
    arxiv:1412.8411, 66 pages.

  20. From fractions to complete Segal spaces, with Zhen Lin Low, 09/29/2014
    Homology, Homotopy and Applications, 17 (2015), no. 1, 321-338.
    arxiv:1409.8192, 21 pages.
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  21. A relative Lubin--Tate theorem via meromorphic formal geometry, with Eric Peterson and Nathaniel Stapleton, 08/25/2013
    Algebraic & Geometric Topology, 15 (2015) no. 4, 2239-2268.
    arxiv:1308.5435, 18 pages.

thesis
  1. Goerss--Hopkins obstruction theory via model ∞-categories, 05/13/2016
    545 pages.
    This comprises papers 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, and 15 above, plus an introductory chapter (76 pages).
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undergrad researches
  1. A cubical antipodal theorem, with Kyle E. Kinneberg, Tia Sondjaja, and Francis Su, 09/02/2009
    arxiv:0909.0471, 15 pages.
    This is the result of an REU I did in the summer after my sophomore year, supervised by Francis Su.

  2. Maximum volume space quadrilaterals, with Thomas Banchoff and Nicholas Haber, 08/02/2006
    Expeditions in Mathematics, 2 (2011), 175-198.
    23 pages.
    This is the result of a summer research project I did in the summer after my freshman year, supervised by Thomas Banchoff. If it counts, this gives me an Erdős number of 4. (And if we somehow make a movie adaptation, I'll have a Bacon number of 4 too.)

book
  1. An invitation to higher algebra (in progress, see here for more info)
    Contracted to be published in the Cambridge University Press series Studies in Advanced Mathematics.

The Adem relations calculator is here -- brought to you, as always, by the wizardry of the kruckmachine.

I passed my qualifying exam on Friday, May 13, 2011. You can see the syllabus here.

The unoriented cobordism ring is π*(MO)=Z/2[{xn:n≠2t-1}]=Z/2[x2,x4,x5,x6,x8,x9,...].
The complex cobordism ring is π*(MU)=Z[{x2n}]=Z[x2,x4,x6,...].

a/s/l?

The DavidRoll: Alper, Antieau, Ayala, Ben-Zvi, Carchedi, Corwin, Duhl-Coughlin, Farris, Gepner, Hansen, Jordan, Li-Bland, Nadler, Orman, Penneys, Reutter, Roberts, Spivak, Treumann, White, Yetter.