Willow Bevington

Me and my cat, Ezio
Pronouns: they/them
E-mail: s1610318 [at] ed [.] ac [.] uk
Office: 5210 JCMB, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh. EH9 3FD.

I'm a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh under Clark Barwick. I study ∞-categorical homotopy theory

On the non-mathematical side I'm an avid baker and knitter. In my past I've been a fire-eater and a juggler in various circus troupes and an assitant (recreational) pirate. In 2016 I ran away from the circus to pursue an undergraduate degree in mathematics. So here I am, washed ashore the rocky beaches of homotopy theory.

Talks

"(co)Monads, Monodromy and Topoi" 2024 Edinburgh Category Theory Seminar
"Higher Galois Theory" 2024 Sheffield YAMCATS
"Models of (∞,n)-categories" 2024 (∞,n)-cat reading group
"Milnor's Exotic Spheres" 2022 eCHT Kan Seminar
"Dwyer-Kan Localisations" 2022 eCHT Kan Seminar
"Cohomology theories, Chern classes and elliptic curves" 2022 Hodge Club
"Cohomology and the Axiom of Choice" 2022 GEARS
"E-Rings, Group Completion, and Spectra" 2022 Hodge Seminar
"Stratified Homotopy Types" 2022 Categorical Late Lunch
"An Introduction to ∞-Categories" 2021 GlaMS

Teaching

Combinatorics and Graph Theory Winter 2024 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
Geometry Winter 2024 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
Introduction to Linear Algebra Winter 2024 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
Modern Methods in Geometry and Toplogy Spring 2024 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
Galois Theory Spring 2024 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
Combinatorics and Grpah Theory Winter 2023 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
General Topology Winter 2023 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
Geometry Winter 2023 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
Introduction to Linear Algebra Winter 2023 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
Algebraic Geometry Spring 2023 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
Galois Theory Spring 2023 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
Proofs and Problem Solving Spring 2022 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
General Topology Winter 2022 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
Honours Analysis (Skills) Winter 2022 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
Geometry Winter 2022 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh

Awards/Nominations

Deaf Awareness Training (National Deaf Children's Society) 2025
Edinburgh Teaching Award (AFHEA), awaiting confirmation 2025
EUSA Teaching Award (nomination) 2021-2022

Looking for the Wednesdays Lectures Page? Here it is!

Looking for the Chromatic Homotopy Theory Page? Here it is!

Looking for the Queer book club Page? Here it is!