I’m a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at Cornell University, advised by Inna Zakharevich.

I enjoy thinking about mathematics at the interface between algebra and topology. In particular, I’m interested in

CV (Last updated: November 10, 2024)

I pronounce my last name as “VOH-guh-lee” in English, but it’s really Swiss German in origin.

Some things I’m involved in:


Research

The Galois-equivariant \(K\)-theory of finite fields [arXiv:2406.19481]
with David Chan. To appear in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society.

Bredon homological stability for configuration spaces of \(G\)-manifolds [arXiv:2311.02459]
with Eva Belmont and J.D. Quigley.

Uniformly vertex-transitive graphs [arXiv:1912.00060]
with Simon Schmidt and Moritz Weber.


Events


Expository & Other Writing

The Homotopy Theory of Orthogonal Spectra (in preparation)
A writeup I prepared for my Admission to Candidacy Exam (A Exam) in November 2022.

English Translation of tom Dieck’s Faserbündel mit Gruppenoperation
Translation to fulfil the language requirement of the Cornell mathematics graduate program.

5/8 and Isoclinism (in preparation)
Notes on the commuting probability of a finite group and the connection to isoclinism. Prepared for a talk given at the Olivetti Club in September 2021.


A puzzle: what comes next in the sequence?

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 60, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101, 103, 107, 109, 113, 127, 131, 137, 139, 149, 151, 157, 163, 167, ???

Das Sphärenspektrum hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.