About
I am a Heilbronn Research Fellow at Imperial College London.
Previously, I was a Senior Research Associate at
Lancaster with
Andrey Lazarev, and a postdoc at
Antwerp with
Wendy Lowen and
Dmitry Kaledin. I completed my PhD at
Edinburgh under the supervision of
Jon Pridham, defending in 2019. My
thesis was on a derived version of the
Donovan-
Wemyss contraction algebra. Before that, I obtained an MMath from
Oxford in 2015.
I am in a broad sense a noncommutative geometer; I am interested in anything that sits at the interfaces of algebraic geometry, homotopy theory, representation theory, and algebraic topology. I am particularly interested in:
- Deformation theory: Koszul duality, prorepresentability theorems, Mac Lane cohomology for abelian categories, topological Hochschild cohomology for ring spectra and spectral categories, noncommutative and derived deformations. Applications to algebraic topology. Links between Koszul duality, derived completion, and Morita reflexivity.
- Derived noncommutative geometry: triangulated, dg, and spectral categories, noncommutative resolutions, contraction algebras and the homological MMP, singularity categories, matrix factorisations, Calabi-Yau algebras, links to representation theory.
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Contact
My email address is
matt dot
booth at
imperial dot
ac dot
uk.
My office is Huxley 612.
I have
math.stackexchange and
mathoverflow accounts, although I don't use them much.