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Employment
RTG research associate and lecturer
University of Virginia
Fall 2021 - Present
Zassenhaus Assistance Professor
Ohio State University
Fall 2018 - Summer 2021
RTG research associate and lecturer
University of Virginia
Fall 2021 - Present
Zassenhaus Assistance Professor
Ohio State University
Fall 2018 - Summer 2021
Education
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
PhD in mathematics 2018
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, South Dakota
B.S., Applied and Computational Mathematics, May 2010
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
PhD in mathematics 2018
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Rapid City, South Dakota
B.S., Applied and Computational Mathematics, May 2010
Honors, Awards, Memberships
2023 - Present AMS member
2020 - 2023 AMS Simons Travel Grant ($6000)
July 2020 Co-PI, NSF Grant DMS-2000885
Beyond Hyperbolicity at The Ohio State University conference grant ($30,000)
2015-2016 Purdue Research Fellowship
2014 Graduate School Summer Research Grant
2011-2015 Purdue Doctoral Fellowship
2023 - Present AMS member
2020 - 2023 AMS Simons Travel Grant ($6000)
July 2020 Co-PI, NSF Grant DMS-2000885
Beyond Hyperbolicity at The Ohio State University conference grant ($30,000)
2015-2016 Purdue Research Fellowship
2014 Graduate School Summer Research Grant
2011-2015 Purdue Doctoral Fellowship
Mentoring
Darien Farnham
Summer 2022 - Present
Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia (Tentative advisor: Thomas Koberda)
Milana Golich
Summer 2018 - Present
Ph.D. student at Purdue University (advisor: Ben McReynolds)
Josiah Oh
Fall 2018 - Spring 2022
Ph.D. student at the Ohio State University (advisor: Jean Lafont)
Darien Farnham
Summer 2022 - Present
Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia (Tentative advisor: Thomas Koberda)
Milana Golich
Summer 2018 - Present
Ph.D. student at Purdue University (advisor: Ben McReynolds)
Josiah Oh
Fall 2018 - Spring 2022
Ph.D. student at the Ohio State University (advisor: Jean Lafont)
Papers and Preprints
- Jonas Deré, Michal Ferov, and Mark Pengitore. Survey on effective separability
Preprint available at arxiv:2201.13327 to appear in "Geometric methods in group theory: papers dedicated to Ruth Charney" as part of the series Seminaires et Congres by the SMF - Michal Ferov and Mark Pengitore. Conjugacy depth function of wreath products of abelian groups
- Preprint available at arxiv:2201.06165 Accepted by J. Groups Complex. Cryptol.
- Seongjun Choi, Meng-Che "Turbo" Ho, and Mark Pengitore. Rational growth for torus bundle groups of odd trace.
Preprint available at arxiv:2012.07995 Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc. (2) 65 (2022), no. 4, 1080-1132 - Rob Kropholler and Mark Pengitore. A coarse embedding theorem for homological filling functions.
Preprint available at arxiv:2008.11090 Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. Math. Soc. 54 (2022), no. 3, 876-890 - Josiah Oh and Mark Pengitore. Geometry of non-transitive graphs.
Preprint available at arxiv:2008.08638 Pacific J. Math. 317 (2022), no. 2, 423-440 - Ben McReynolds and Mark Pengitore. Coarse models of homogeneous spaces and translation-like actions.
Preprint available at arxiv:1911.12175 Submitted - Michal Ferov and Mark Pengitore. Quantifying conjugacy separability in wreath products of groups.
Preprint available at arxiv:1910.02174 Q. J. Math.. 63 (2022), no. 4, 1555-1593 - Mark Pengitore. Residual finiteness and strict distortion of cyclic subgroups of solvable groups
Preprint available at arxiv:1903.08123 J. Algebra 546 (2020), 679-688 - Mark Pengitore. Residual dimension of nilpotent groups
Preprint available at arxiv:1809.07934 J. Group Theory 23 (2020), no. 5, 801-829 - David Bruce Cohen and Mark Pengitore. Translation-like actions of nilpotent groups
Preprint available at arxiv:1704.06999 J. Topol. Anal. 11 (2019), no. 2, 405-426 - Jonas Deré and Mark Pengitore. Effective Twisted Conjugacy Separability of Nilpotent Groups
Preprint available at arxiv:1705.10212 Math. Z. 292 (2019), no. 3-4, 763-790 - Mark Pengitore. Effective Separability of Finitely Generated Nilpotent Groups
Available here New York J. Math. 24 (2018) 83-145 - Mark Pengitore. Corrigendum to "Effective separability of finitely generated nilpotent groups"
Available here New York J. Math. 24 (2018), 83--145 - Jonas Deré and Mark Pengitore. Effective Subgroup Separability of Nilpotent groups.
Preprint available at arxiv:1711.0809 J. Algebra 506 (2018), 489-508 - Jonas Deré and Mark Pengitore. Corrigendum to "Effective Subgroup Separability of Nilpotent groups." [J. Algebra 506 (2018) 489-508]
J. Algebra 523 (2019), 365-367
Upcoming Talks
- Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics Seminar, Boston College - April 25, 2024
- Geometry and Topology Seminar, Binghamton University - March 28th, 2024
- Geometry and Topology Seminar, University of Bristol - October 3, 2023
- Algebra, Geometry, and Topology Seminar, Heriot-Watt University - October 4, 2023
- Algebra Seminar, University of Oxford - October 10, 2023
- Geometry and Topology Seminar, University of Warwick - October 12, 2023
- Groups and Geometry in Southern England - October 13, 2023
- Seminar Algebra-Geometrie-Kombintorik, TU Dresden - June 22, 2023
- Geometric Group Theory Seminar, WWU Munster - June 19, 2023
- Geometry and Topology Seminar, Virginia Tech - April 6, 2023
- 56th Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference, Online, Semi-plenary speaker - March 15 - 18, 2023
- Long Distance Seminar on Geometry Group Theory in Mexico, Online - June 1, 2023
- Group Theory Seminar, ENS, Paris - December 20, 2022
- Geometry, Topology, and Physics Seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara - December 9, 2022
- Topology Seminar, Wesleyan University - November 16, 2022
- Geometry and Topology Seminar, University of Oklahoma - November 2, 2022
- UT Topology Seminar, University of Texas, Austin - September 19, 2022
- Geometry Seminar, University of Virginia - September 13, 2022
- Toledo Colloquia, University of Toledo - April 1, 2022
- George Mason University - March 11, 2021
- Virginia Tech Algebra Seminar - November 12, 2021
- University of Virginia Geometry Seminar - December 7, 2021
- California State University Northridge Colloquium - December 1, 2021
- Geometric group theory in East Asia - October 8, 2021
- World of Groupcraft - August 26, 2021
- 54th Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference - virtual - May 13, 2021
- Rice University Topology Seminar - March 7, 2021
- Max Dehn Seminar, University of Utah - October 21, 2020
- Geometry and Topology Seminar, Binghamton University - September 17, 2020
- Topology and Geometry: extremal and typical - September 14, 2020
- Geometry and Topology Seminar, Yale University - September 8, 2020
- MAXIMALS seminar, Heriot-Watt University - May 6, 2020
- University of Utah Max Dehn Seminar - April 15, 2020 - Cancelled due to COVID-19
- Wesleyan University Topology Seminar - April 9, 2020 - Cancelled due to COVID-19
- AMS Spring Sectional Meeting, Purdue University - April 4-5, 2020 - Cancelled due to COVID-19
- Michigan State University Geometry and Topology Seminar - March 26, 2020 - Cancelled due to COVID-19
- 54th Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference - March 21, 2020 - Cancelled due to COVID-19
- University of Sydney Geometry and Topology Seminar - March 12, 2020
- Symmetry in Newcastle - March 6, 2020
- Central Michigan University Topology seminar- January 31, 2020
- University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Geometry and Topology Seminar - December 4, 2019
- University of Notre Dame Topology Seminar - November 28, 2019
- Tufts University, Geometry Group Theory and Topology Seminar - October 1, 2019
- Fall Central Sectional Meeting, Madison Wisconsin, Geometry and Topology in Arithmetic - September 15, 2019
- University of Cambridge, Geometric Group Theory Seminar - June 28, 2019
- University of Bristol, Bristol Mathematical Improvisation - June 25, 2019
- Research Seminar in Algebra and Topology, KU Leuven Kulak - June 14, 2019
- Geometry and Topology Seminar, Temple University - May 6, 2019
- Topology and Geometry Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison - April 5, 2019
- Bowling Green State University Algebra and Topology Seminar - March 27, 2019
- Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference - March 15, 2019
- Geometry Seminar, Indiana University at Bloomington - October 18, 2018
- Junior Geometry and Topology in the Midwest - October 13, 2018
- University of Virginia Geometry Seminar - October 31, 2017
- Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics Seminar, UIC - October 23, 2017
- Geometric Group Theory Seminar, Ohio State University - October 19, 2017
- Geometry, Groups, and Dynamics Workshop - October 7, 2017
- Rice Topology Seminar - October 2, 2017
- Geometry, Groups, and Dynamics/GEAR Seminar at UIUC - September 28, 2017
- Rose-Hulman Mathematics Seminar - September 13, 2017
- Geometry and Topology Seminar, Temple University - November 30, 2016
- Graduate Student Seminar, Tufts University - October 19, 2016
- Geometric Group Theory and Topology Seminar, Tufts University - October 18, 2016
- Geometric Group Theory Seminar, Ohio State University, - September 29, 2016
- Geometric Group Theory Seminar, Purdue University - September 22, 2016
- Geometry and Topology Seminar, University of Oklahoma - March 9, 2016
- Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar, Central Michigan University - December 9th, 2015
- Research Seminar in Algebra and Topology, KU Leuven Kulak - November 24, 2015
- Algebra and Topology Seminar, Bowling Green State University, April 24, 2015
- Geometry Seminar,Indiana University at Bloomington, January 29, 2015
- Purdue Geometry Seminar, Purdue University, December 8, 2014
Contributed and Conference Talks
- Geometric and Asymptotic Theory with Applications- June 2017
- 34th Annual Workshop in Geometric Topology - June 2017
- Third Annual Graduate Student Conference in Algebra, Geometry, and Topology - June 2017
- USTARS - March 31, 2017
- 2017 Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference - March 11, 2017
- Purdue University Mathematics Department Graduate Research Day - November 19, 2016
- Binghamton University Graduate Conference in Algebra and Topology - October 16, 2016
- EGE0 2016, VI Workshop on Differential Geometry - August, 2016
- Second Annual Graduate Student Conference in Algebra, Geometry, and Topology - May 2016
- Eastern Illinois Integrated Conference in Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics, Eastern Illinois University - April 2016
- Geometric and Probabilistic Methods in Group Theory and Dynamical Systems, Texas A&M University - November 2015
- USTARS - April 2015
- Topology Student Workshop - June 2014
Service
- Co-organizer for Geometric Group Theory Special Session at the 2022 Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference (STDC) at Baylor University - March 2022
- Co-organizer for Virginia Topology Conference - November 2021
- Co-organized Artin Groups, CAT(0) geometry, and related topics (Charneyfest) - July 2021
- Co-organized the Beyond Hyperbolicity at the Ohio State University conference - June 2021
- Co-organized the OSU Topology Seminar and Geometric Group Theory Seminars - Fall 2018 to Spring 2021
- Co-organized 55th Spring Topology and Dynamical Systems Conference
Outreach
Topology REU at University of Virginia
Summer 2022
Mentor
The Ross Mathematics Program
Summer 2020 and Summer 2021
Lecturer in Geometric Group Theory
Problem of the Week
Purdue University
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Doctoral Student Panel
2016 Field of Dreams Conference
Fall 2016
PRIME 2016
Purdue University under Dr. Edray Goins
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Summer 2016
Secret Seminar
Purdue University
Fall 2014 - Spring 2016
Topology REU at University of Virginia
Summer 2022
Mentor
The Ross Mathematics Program
Summer 2020 and Summer 2021
Lecturer in Geometric Group Theory
Problem of the Week
Purdue University
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
Doctoral Student Panel
2016 Field of Dreams Conference
Fall 2016
PRIME 2016
Purdue University under Dr. Edray Goins
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Summer 2016
Secret Seminar
Purdue University
Fall 2014 - Spring 2016
Teaching
Instructor of Record
University of Virginia
Math3310, Basic Real Analysis, Spring 2023
Instructor of Record
University of Virginia
Math8859, Symmetric Spaces, Fall 2022
Instructor of Record
University of Virginia
Math3350, Applied Linear Algebra, Spring 2022
Instructor of Record
University of Virginia
Math3354, Survey of Algebra, Fall 2021
Instructor of Record
The Ohio State University
MA1152, Calculus 2, Spring 2021
Instructor of Record
The Ohio State University
MA1172, Engineering Mathematics A, Spring 2021
Instructor of Record
The Ohio State University
MA1172, Engineering Mathematics A, Spring 2021
Instructor of Record
The Ohio State University
MA1172, Engineering Mathematics A, Spring 2020
Instructor of Record
The Ohio State University
MA1151 Calculus 1, Fall 2019
Recitation Teaching Assistant
The Ohio State University
MA6112 Graduate Abstract Algebra II, Spring 2019
Instructor of Record
The Ohio State University
MA4530 Probability, Fall 2018
Instructor of Record
Purdue University
MA16010 Applied Calculus 1, Fall 2016
Teaching Assistant
Purdue University
MA26200 Linear Algebra And Differential Equations, Spring 2015
MA16200 Plane Analytic Geometry and Calculus 2 II, Fall 2014
MA16600 Analytic Geometry and Calculus 2, Spring 2014
MA16200 Plane Analytic Geometry and Calculus 2, Fall 2013
Instructor of Record
University of Virginia
Math3310, Basic Real Analysis, Spring 2023
Instructor of Record
University of Virginia
Math8859, Symmetric Spaces, Fall 2022
Instructor of Record
University of Virginia
Math3350, Applied Linear Algebra, Spring 2022
Instructor of Record
University of Virginia
Math3354, Survey of Algebra, Fall 2021
Instructor of Record
The Ohio State University
MA1152, Calculus 2, Spring 2021
Instructor of Record
The Ohio State University
MA1172, Engineering Mathematics A, Spring 2021
Instructor of Record
The Ohio State University
MA1172, Engineering Mathematics A, Spring 2021
Instructor of Record
The Ohio State University
MA1172, Engineering Mathematics A, Spring 2020
Instructor of Record
The Ohio State University
MA1151 Calculus 1, Fall 2019
Recitation Teaching Assistant
The Ohio State University
MA6112 Graduate Abstract Algebra II, Spring 2019
Instructor of Record
The Ohio State University
MA4530 Probability, Fall 2018
Instructor of Record
Purdue University
MA16010 Applied Calculus 1, Fall 2016
Teaching Assistant
Purdue University
MA26200 Linear Algebra And Differential Equations, Spring 2015
MA16200 Plane Analytic Geometry and Calculus 2 II, Fall 2014
MA16600 Analytic Geometry and Calculus 2, Spring 2014
MA16200 Plane Analytic Geometry and Calculus 2, Fall 2013