Kamryn Spinelli

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Email: k.spinelli queensu ca (fill in the usual symbols)

I am a Coleman Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen’s University working under the supervision of Noriko Yui.

Previously, I obtained my PhD at Brandeis University, where my advisors were Bong Lian and An Huang. I received Brandeis’s Jerome Levine prize for my dissertation New perspectives on period integrals and L-function approximation.

My interests lie at the intersections of algebraic geometry, representation theory, invariant theory, and number theory. Many of the problems I study come from physics. Lately I have been working on the following topics:

  • period integrals and D-modules on moduli of Calabi-Yau varieties
  • interplay between restriction theorems and Galois theory
  • arithmetic aspects of Calabi-Yau geometry
  • Lie algebra representations associated with conformal field theories, and their relationships with number theory.

Outside of mathematics, my personal interests include knitting, cooking, amateur radio (find me on the air as KS9Z or KS9Z/VE3), photography, and card games.