Yen Duong

I edit scientific manuscripts. If you are interested in publishing in an interdisciplinary journal and are unsure if your paper is readable enough, please contact me. Or if you just want a quick grammar and copy-editing run through, contact me.

For my research, I focused on the field of geometric group theory, and also enjoy combinatorics. I've also always been a fan of discrete math and graph theory. My advisor is Daniel Groves.

My research had to do with cubulating random groups, and is related to a huge movement in geometric group theory, covered nicely in this article by Erica Klarreich . Here is a link to a video of me giving a talk at the Women and Mathematics program at the Institute for Advanced Study in summer of 2016. Here is a link to my thesis.

I have some suggestions on how to learn some cool math (besides reading my blog, which you should also do). One of the first papers I read in graduate school was a seminal paper by John Stallings which has inspired lots of math over the past few decades. It's blogged about at Low Dimensional Topology, which is an easier start than diving into the paper. I also recommend the notes from Sageev's PCMI lectures which are a great introduction to cube complexes. If you are a group of graduate students, I recommend figuring out what's going on in Kirby and Scharlemann's paper about the Poincaré homology sphere. In Spring 2018, a class by Edgar Bering at Temple blogged that paper.

I love talking about my math and things that have appeared in my blog. Contact me if you want to talk about math or grad school or undergrad.