Bailey Whitbread

I am an Australian graduate student in mathematics. My CV is here and my GitHub is here.

My advisor is Geordie Williamson. My past advisors are Masoud Kamgarpour and Ole Warnaar.

Work

Preprint Counting points on generic character varieties
MPhil thesis Arithmetic Geometry of Character Varieties
GitHub package CharacterVarieties.jl
MPhil poster Topology of Representation Spaces via Arithmetic
Bachelors thesis Hecke Algebras and Gelfand Pairs in Representation Theory

Talks

Counting points on character varieties Joint Meeting of the NZMS, AustMS and AMS
(This talk was runner-up for most outstanding talk by a student at the joint meeting)
Character varieties APAC Seminar
Polynomials in the variable \(p\) AMSI Summer School
Character varieties in arbitrary type Annual Meeting of the AustMS
Arithmetic geometry of representation spaces Glasgow Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Counting points on the representation variety Annual Meeting of the AustMS
Hecke algebras and Gelfand pairs in representation theory Undergraduate Final Talk

Tutoring

MATH3303 (lead tutor, 5 years), MATH2401 (lead tutor, 2 years),
MATH1071 (lead tutor, 2 years), MATH1061 (lead tutor and lecture tutor, 2 years)
+ marked final exams for 1st and 2nd year maths courses (5 years)

Service

Co-organiser for the UQ Maths Graduate Student Seminar (2 years)
Co-organiser for a lecture series on the Weil conjectures
Marker for the Simon Marais Mathematics Competition
Marker for the UQ/QAMT Problem Solving Competition
Question drafter for the UQ Maths Relay (4 years)
Tutor for the UQ Queensland Mathematics Summer School
President and vice president of the UQ Mathematics Students Society (2 years)

About Me

I play Tetris. You can find me on TETR.IO. My focus is The Grand Master series.

[Photo] Heron Island Workshop on Geometry and Representation Theory
[Photo] 67th Annual Meeting of the AustMS
[Photo] 66th Annual Meeting of the AustMS
[Photo] UQ Representation Theory Day

Places

Olefest
Representation theory down under
Joint Meeting of the NZMS, AustMS and AMS
67th Annual Meeting of the AustMS
66th Annual Meeting of the AustMS
AMSI Summer School 2025
AMSI Summer School 2024
AMSI Winter School 2022
Number Theory Down Under 10
Categorified Enumerative Geometry and Representation Theory
Character Varieties, E-Polynomials and Representation Zeta Functions Workshop @ ANU
North Stradbroke Island Workshop on Character Varieties
Heron Island Workshop on Geometry and Representation Theory
Differential Geometry Days @ UQ