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I am a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ohio State University. My research interests include various interactions of topology and geometry with probability, statistical physics, and combinatorics.
You can email me at mkahle (AT SYMBOL) DEPT.UNIVERSITY.edu.
I am currently advising PhD students Chris Donnay, Chloe Ireland, Tyson Trauger, and Amber Wu.
My former PhD students:
- Shreeya Behera (2024, OSU)
- Andrew Vander Werf (2023, OSU, co-advised with Elliot Paquette)
- Ayat Ababneh (2022, OSU)
- Paul Duncan (2022, OSU)
- Jimin Kim (2022, OSU)
- Francisco Martinez Figueroa (2022, OSU)
- Katherine Ritchey (2019, OSU)
- Andrew Newman (2018, OSU)
- Érika Roldán (2018, CIMAT, co-advised with Víctor Pérez-Abreu)
- Kyle Parsons (2017, OSU)
- Greg Malen (2016, OSU)
Postdocs I've worked with:
- Shu Kanazawa is a postdoc at Kyoto University
- Benjamin Schweinhart is an assistant professor at George Mason University.
- Hannah Alpert is an assistant professor at Auburn University.
- Fedya Manin is an associate professor at UC Santa Barbara.
- Izhar Oppenheim is a senior lecturer at Ben Gurion University.
- Matthew Wright is an associate professor at St. Olaf College.
Places: faculty, Ohio State University (2011-present); Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2010-11); Samelson Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University (2007-2010); PhD, University of Washington (2001-2007); M.S., Colorado State University (1999-2001)
Visiting positions: TU Berlin, Germany, 2019–2020; ICERM, Providence, Rhode Island, Autumn 2016; CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico, Summer 2016; IMA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Spring 2014; MRSI, Berkeley, California, Autumn 2006; IAS-PCMI, Park City, Utah, Summer 2004
Awards: Mercator Fellow (2019), Fellow of the AMS (Class of 2019), Simons Fellow (2019), NSF CAREER (2014), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2012).
My Erdős number is two.
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Department of Mathematics
The Ohio State University
231 W. 18th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210