Bailey Whitbread

About

I am an Australian graduate student in mathematics. My CV (January 2024).

(Heron Island, 2021)

Contact

Address: School of Mathematics and Physics,
The University of Queensland,
St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
Office: Building 69 Room 714.
Email:

Maths

My advisors are Masoud Kamgarpour and Ole Warnaar. Previous advisors and mentors include Anna Puskás, Ramiro Lafuente and Valentin Buciumas.

Broadly, I am interested in representation theory, geometry, and combinatorics. Specific topics include finite groups of Lie type, Coxeter groups and Iwahori–Hecke algebras. I am currently researching character varieties associated to arbitrary reductive groups.

• I have written a summary of some of our Recent Progress on Representation Spaces.
  For a visual summary, I created a poster about the Topology of Representation Spaces via Arithmetic.
  These are based on joint work with Masoud Kamgarpour and GyeongHyeon Nam.
• My undergraduate thesis was about Hecke Algebras and Gelfand Pairs in Representation Theory.

Service and Work

• Co-organiser for the UQ SMP Graduate Student Seminar (2023).
• Co-organiser for a lecture series on the Weil conjectures (2023). Notes are here.
• Marker for the Simon Marais Mathematics Competition (2022).
• Marker for the UQ/QAMT Problem Solving Competition (2022).
• Marker of final exams for UQ (2021 - now).
• Drafter for the annual UQ SMP Maths Relay (2021 - now).
• Research assistant (drafting manuscripts with students) at UQ (2021).
• Tutor for the UQ Queensland Mathematics Summer School (2019).
• President and vice president of the UQ Mathematics Students Society (2017 - 2019).

I have tutored at UQ for the following courses:

• 2023: MATH3303, MATH1061 (lead tutor and lecture tutor).
• 2022: MATH3303, MATH2401 (lead tutor), MATH2301, MATH2001.
• 2021: MATH3303, MATH2401, MATH2001, MATH1061, First Year Learning Centre.
• 2020: MATH2400, MATH1071, MATH1061, MATH1051.
  
• 2019: MATH1061, MATH1052, MATH1051.
  

Talks

• Polynomials in the variable \(p\) (AMSI Summer School, Jan 2024).
• Character Varieties in Arbitrary Type (AustMS Conference, Dec 2023).
• Arithmetic Geometry of Representation Spaces (Glasgow Algebra and Number Theory Seminar, Sep 2023).
• Groups and Shadows (For MSS, Aug and Oct 2023).
• Arithmetic, Geometry & Polynomials in the Variable \(q\) (Graduate Student Seminar, July 2023).
• Counting Points on the Representation Variety (MPhil Confirmation, Feb 2023).
• Counting Points on the Representation Variety (AustMS Conference, Dec 2022).
  
• The Representation Variety and its E-Polynomial (AMSI Winter School, Jun 2022).
• Hecke Algebras and Gelfand Pairs in Representation Theory (Honours Final Talk, May 2021).
• Kinky Sets (For MSS, Mar 2021).
• The Twin Prime and Elliot–Halberstam Conjectures (Coursework, Oct 2020).
• The Dirichlet Function (For MSS, Mar 2019).

Events, Seminars, Workshops, etc.

You may have met me at the following:

• AMSI Summer School 2024 (Jan - Feb 2024).
• 67th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society (Dec 2023).
• UQ School of Mathematics and Physics Poster Day (Oct 2023).
• University of Glasgow Algebra and Number Theory Seminar (Sep 2023).
• Categorified Enumerative Geometry and Representation Theory (Sep 2023).
• Differential Geometry Days @ UQ (Feb - Mar 2023).
• 66th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society (Dec 2022).
• Number Theory Down Under 10 (Sep 2022).
• AMSI Winter School 2022 - New Directions in Representation Theory (Jun - Jul 2022).
• ANU Character Varieties, E-Polynomials and Representation Zeta Functions Workshop (Feb 2022).
• UQ Maths North Stradbroke Island Workshop on Character Varieties (Dec 2021).
• UQ Maths Heron Island Workshop on Geometry and Representation Theory (Jun - Jul 2021).
• UQ Maths North Stradbroke Island Workshop (Feb - Mar 2021).
• ‘What is…?’ (Wise) Seminar (2021 - 2022).
• AMSI Summer School 2021 (Jan - Feb 2021).
• Simon Marais Mathematics Competition (2018 - 2019).

About Me

• I play Tetris.
  • Me on TETR.IO.
  • Other Tetris versions that I play:
    • NES Tetris (right-click -> ‘Save as…’ -> tetris.nes, play this file with Mesen),
    • NullpoMino,
    • Jstris.
  • Some very bad scores:
    • TETR.IO, 40L race, 1:00.197 (2022).
    • TETR.IO, Blitz, 100,490 (2022).
    • NES Tetris, Level 1 Start, 467,809 (2018).
    • NES Tetris, Level 18 Start, 430,193 (2018).
• I’ve played Geoguessr.
  • 10 seconds no moving, panning or zooming, 20,802 (2023).
• Member of Urban Climb (2021 - now).
• Member of SSAA (2019 - now).
  • Metallic Silhouette Cowboy Rifle Lever Action.
    • Centerfire Grade AA.
    • Rimfire Grade A.

Photos

2023

67th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, Brisbane, Australia [1]
University of Glasgow, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar, Glasgow, Scotland [1]
Categorified Enumerative Geometry and Representation Theory, Lausanne, Switzerland [1]

2022

66th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, Sydney, Australia [1]
AMSI Winter School, Brisbane, Australia [1]

2021

UQ Representation Theory Day, Brisbane, Australia [1]
Heron Island Workshop on Geometry and Representation Theory, Heron Island, Australia [1] [2]