Ahmad Mokhtar

Instructor, Capilano University

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Mathematics & Statistics Dept.

Capilano University

2055 Purcell Way

North Vancouver, BC

Canada V7J 3H5

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I am an instructor in Mathematics at Capilano University and a sessional instructor at Simon Fraser University.

I received my Ph.D. in Mathematics (Algebraic Geometry) from Simon Fraser University. I am interested in Fano schemes (which parametrize linear spaces on varieties), toric geometry, toric degenerations and computational algebraic geometry. My Ph.D. advisor was Nathan Ilten. Here is my full CV.

I co-organized the SFU graduate student seminar in number theory and algebraic geometry (gradieNTAG) together with Sharon Robins and Pijush Sarmah.

In my free time I like to read books, hike and ice skate. One of the craziest hikes I have done is the Statlu and Brotherhood lake trail in Fraser Valley, BC, Canada. The roundtrip to the upper lake took eleven hours.

publications

  1. Ph.D. Thesis: Fano schemes of symmetric and alternating matrices of bounded rank
    Ahmad Mokhtar
    Ph.D. Thesis, 2024
  2. Fano schemes of symmetric matrices of bounded rank
    Ahmad Mokhtar
    arXiv preprint, 2023
  3. Khovanskii-finite rational curves of arithmetic genus 2
    Nathan Ilten, and Ahmad Mokhtar
    Michigan Mathematical Journal, 2022
  4. Perfect quantum state transfer on the Johnson scheme
    Bahman Ahmadi, M. H. Shirdareh Haghighi, and Ahmad Mokhtar
    Linear Algebra Appl., 2020

talks

  • Khovanskii-finite rational curves of arithmetic genus 2, SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry (AG23), Eindhoven Univeristy of Technology, July 2023 (slides, video)
  • Fano schemes of singular symmetric matrices, University of British Columbia AG seminar, March 2023
  • Fano schemes of singular symmetric matrices, Simon Fraser University NTAG seminar, February 2023
  • Intro to moduli spaces through Grassmannians and Fano schemes, SFU gradieNTAG seminar, January 2023
  • Toric degenerations of quintic rational space curves, Simon Fraser University NTAG seminar, January 2020
  • Toric degenerations of quintic rational space curves, 2nd Biennial Meeting of SIAM Pacific Northwest Section, Seattle University, October 2019 (canceled due to visa issues)

posters

  • Fano schemes of singular symmetric matrices, Canadian Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium (CaWAGS), March 2023 (pdf)