Elden Elmanto
Education
BS in Mathematics (2013), the University of Chicago
PhD in Mathematics (2018), Northwestern University
Teaching Interests
I am interested in showing glimpses of how theory-building works in mathematics to undergraduates and also non-majors. Mathematics is more than just memorization of "useful" formulas but, rather, fits into a narrative that people have constructed to explain various phenomena. This, I believe, is one of the ends of the theory-building process. I hope to teach various advanced courses to our majors at Toronto (like algebraic topology and algebraic geometry) as well as courses to non-majors to demonstrate the story of mathematics.
Research Interests
Algebraic geometry - birational, arithmetic, derived. Algebraic cycles, algebraic K-theory and cobordism. Hodge theory (mostly p-adic) and singularities. Abstract homotopy theory.
Awards and Grants
NSERC grant (2023) - "reimagining motivic cohomology" RGPIN-2023-04233
Northwestern University Best Thesis award 2018