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 Willow a second-year PhD student at Edinburgh under Clark Barwick. I study ∞-categorical homotopy theory and its applications - from Exodromy and Pyknotic (or "condensed") mathematics, to spectra, cohomology and chromatic homotopy theory.

My mathematical interests include, but are not limited to, the following

On the non-mathematical side I'm an avid baker, a climber, and a non-binary Quaker! 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 and decided that the old gigs' ship had sailed. So here I am, washed ashore the rocky beaches of the algebro-topological world and it has been a considerable effort to stay afloat, but I'm glad that I have.

Talks

"An Introduction to ∞-Categories" 2021 GlaMS
"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

Teaching

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
Algebraic Geometry Spring 2023 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh
Galois Theory Spring 2023 Tutor @ University of Edinburgh

Awards/Nominations

EUSA Teaching Award (nomination) 2021-2022

Publications

TBA

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