Ahmad Mokhtar
Instructor, Capilano University
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
- Ph.D. Thesis: Fano schemes of symmetric and alternating matrices of bounded rankPh.D. Thesis, 2024
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)