Curriculum vitae

Kate Vokes

Address Email [email protected] Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques 35 route de Chartres 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette Webpage www.ihes.fr/~vokes/ France

Positions

• October 2020–June 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher (HUAWEI Young Tal- ents Programme), Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Université Paris- Saclay, France

• January 2019–September 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Université Paris-Saclay, France

• July 2018–December 2018: Fields Postdoctoral Fellow, Thematic Pro- gram on Teichmüller Theory and its Connections to , and Dynamics, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Canada

Education

• October 2014 – June 2018: PhD in Mathematics , United Kingdom Thesis title: Large scale geometry of curve complexes Supervisor: Professor Brian Bowditch

• October 2010 – July 2014: MMath in Mathematics (Class I (Hons)) Durham University, United Kingdom

Research interests Low-dimensional topology and , particularly mapping class groups, Teichmüller spaces, curve complexes and related complexes.

Papers

• (with Jacob Russell) Thickness and relative hyperbolicity for graphs of multic- urves, preprint (2020); available at arXiv:2010.06464

• (with Jacob Russell) The (non)-relative hyperbolicity of the separating curve graph, preprint (2019); available at arXiv:1910.01051 • Hierarchical hyperbolicity of graphs of multicurves, accepted in Algebr. Geom. Topol.; available at arXiv:1711.03080

• Uniform quasiconvexity of the disc graphs in the curve graphs, in “Beyond Hy- perbolicity”, ed. M. Hagen, R. Webb, H. Wilton, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser. 454, Cambridge Univ. Press (2019); available at arXiv:1703.10595

Expository writing

• Mapping class groups and curves in surfaces, on “Picture this maths”, https://picturethismaths.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/ mapping-class-groups-and-curves-in-surfaces/

Awards

• Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine Thesis Prize in Mathematics, University of Warwick, June 2019

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Doctoral Award, Octo- ber 2014–March 2018

• Edward Collingwood Memorial Prize, Durham University, July 2014

• Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Durham University, September 2012– August 2013

Committees

• Secretary of Mathematics Staff-Graduate Student Liaison Committee, University of Warwick, 2017–18. This committee is a means of commu- nication between PhD students and permanent staff.

• Postgraduate representative on Mathematics Athena SWAN committee, University of Warwick, 2016–18. This committee is part of a national pro- grammme in the UK which promotes equality, and in particular the integra- tion of women, in Mathematics and Science departments.

Teaching experience

• Teaching assistant, University of Warwick, 2015–17: leading examples classes for third and fourth year undergraduate modules.

– MA4H4 Geometric Group Theory, Term 2 2016–17 – MA4H4 Geometric Group Theory, Term 2 2015–16 – MA3F1 Introduction to Topology, Term 1 2015–16

2 • Supervisor, University of Warwick, 2014–15: teaching small groups of first year undergraduates for support on core subjects such as Analysis and Linear Algebra.

Selected talks

• 19 and 26 October 2020, online lectures on mapping class groups for grad- uate students, through Groups and Geometry in the South East and the Lon- don Mathematical Society

• 23 June 2020, miniGAGTA (online), ICMS, Edinburgh, UK

• 11 June 2020, Séminaire de Géométrie et Dynamique, online, France

• 30 April 2020, Long-distance seminar on Geometric Group Theory, Universi- dad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

• 28 February 2020, Groups and Geometry in the South East, University of Warwick, UK

• 6 February 2020, Séminaire de Géométrie Analytique, Université de Rennes 1, France

• 16 January 2020, LMS workshop on Interactions between Geometry, Dynam- ics and Group Theory, University of Bristol, UK

• 13 September 2019, Of coarse! Quasi-isometries and groups: rigidity and classification, Ventotene, Italy

• 11 April 2019, Séminaire Géométrie et Topologie, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu–Paris Rive Gauche, France

• 21 March 2019, Séminaire de Géométrie Analytique, Université de Rennes 1, France

• 14 February 2019, Séminaire Géométrie, Topologie, Dynamique, Départe- ment de Mathématiques d’Orsay, France

• 25 October 2018, Workshop on Dynamics and Moduli Spaces of Translation Surfaces, Fields Institute, Canada

• 30 November 2017, Geometry and Topology Seminar, University of Warwick, UK

• 27 October 2017, Scottish Topology Seminar, , UK

• 4 April 2017, British Mathematical Colloquium, Durham University, UK

3 Language skills

• English: native speaker

• French: advanced (Test de Connaissance du Français: C2, September 2020).

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