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Christopher Herald is the Foundation Professor and Mathematics Graduate Program Director at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). He has held academic roles at UNR since 1999, progressing from Assistant Professor (1999–2003) to Associate Professor (2003–2009) and eventually Professor (2009–present). His research focuses on low-dimensional topology, knot theory, symplectic geometry, and gauge theory, with emphasis on traceless SU(2) character varieties and their applications in Floer homology and Khovanov cohomology.
Education: B.A. (1985) and Ph.D. (1992) in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. Postdoctoral positions included the Britton Fellowship at McMaster University (1994–1996) and visiting roles at UC Irvine (1992–1994), Swarthmore College (1996–1999), and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (1995).
Research highlights include studies on character varieties in symplectic manifolds, Fukaya categories, and connections to Khovanov homology. Recent work explores the correspondence between tangles and Lagrangian submanifolds in the pillowcase framework.
Awards and grants are not explicitly listed in the provided text. His advising and mentorship are tied to the Mathematics Graduate Program at UNR.
