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Associate Professor William Donovan

Affiliation: YMSC, BIMSA

Group: Algebraic Geometry

Email: donovan@bimsa.cn

Research Field: Algebraic Geometry

Webpage: https://ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1032/1215.htm

Biography

Will Donovan joined Yau MSC, Tsinghua U in 2018. Since 2021 he is an Associate Professor, and Adjunct Associate Professor at BIMSA. His focus is geometry, in particular applying ideas from physics and noncommutative algebra to study varieties, using tools of homological algebra and category theory. He studied at Cambridge U, completed his PhD at Imperial College London, and was postdoctoral researcher at Edinburgh U, UK. From 2014-18 he was research fellow at Kavli IPMU, U Tokyo, where he is now Visiting Associate Scientist. His work is published in journals including Communications in Mathematical Physics and Duke Mathematical Journal. He is supported by China Thousand Talents Plan, and received a Japan Society for Promotion of Science Young Scientist grant award.

Publication

  • [1] A. Bodzenta, W. Donovan, Root stacks and periodic decompositions, manuscripta math, 175, 53–73 (2024)
  • [2] W. Donovan, Relating derived equivalences for simplices of higher-dimensional flops, Adv. Stud. Pure Math., 88(2023), 305-330
  • [3] W. Donovan, M. Wemyss, Stringy Kähler moduli, mutation and monodromy, accepted by J. Diff. Geom.(2022)
  • [4] W Donovan, Derived symmetries for crepant contractions to hypersurfaces, arXiv (2024)
  • [5] W Donovan, T Kuwagaki, Mirror symmetry for perverse schobers from birational geometry, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 381(2), 453-490 (2021)
  • [6] W Donovan, Stringy Kähler moduli for the Pfaffian-Grassmannian correspondence, arXiv (2020)
  • [7] W Donovan, M Wemyss, Noncommutative enhancements of contractions, Advances in Mathematics, 344, 99-136 (2019)
  • [8] W Donovan, Perverse schobers on Riemann surfaces: constructions and examples, European Journal of Mathematics, 5(3), 771-797 (2019)
  • [9] N Addington, W Donovan, C Meachan, Mukai flops and ℙ-twists, Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal), 2019, 748 … (2019)
  • [10] W Donovan, M Wemyss, Contractions and deformations, American Journal of Mathematics, 141(3), 563-592 (2019)
  • [11] W Donovan, M Wemyss, Twists and braids for general 3-fold flops, Journal of the European Mathematical Society, 21(6), 1641-1701 (2019)
  • [12] W Donovan, Perverse schobers and wall crossing, International Mathematics Research Notices, 2019(18), 5777-5810 (2017)
  • [13] W Donovan, Applications of noncommutative deformations, Proceedings of the Kinosaki Algebraic Geometry Symposium (2017)
  • [14] N Addington, W Donovan, C Meachan, Moduli spaces of torsion sheaves on K3 surfaces and derived equivalences, Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 93(3), 846-865 (2016)
  • [15] W Donovan, Contractions of 3-folds: deformations and invariants, International Journal of Mathematics, 27(7) (2016)
  • [16] W Donovan, M Wemyss, Noncommutative deformations and flops, Duke Mathematical Journal, 165(8), 1397-1474 (2016)
  • [17] W Donovan, E Segal, Mixed braid group actions from deformations of surface singularities, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 335(1), 497-543 (2015)
  • [18] W Donovan, Grassmannian twists, derived equivalences and brane transport, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, 90, 251-264 (2015)
  • [19] N Addington, W Donovan, E Segal, The Pfaffian-Grassmannian equivalence revisited, Foundation Compositio Mathematica, 2(3), 332-364 (2014)
  • [20] W Donovan, E Segal, Window shifts, flop equivalences and Grassmannian twists, Compositio Mathematica, 150(6), 942-978 (2014)
  • [21] W Donovan, Grassmannian twists on the derived category via spherical functors, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 107(5), 1053-1090 (2013)
  • [22] WRG Donovan, Grassmannian twists on derived categories of coherent sheaves, Imperial College London (University of London) (2011)

 

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