Hi, I'm Micah!
I am a first year PhD student in mathematics at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. I got my bachelor's in mathematics at UCSD where I worked with Professor Albert Chern on problems in computer graphics and non-Euclidean geometry. I also did a directed reading with Professor Lei Ni on Lie groups. I am primarily interested in algebraic topology and geometry. My CV can be found here.
To reach me: li004438 "at" umn "dot" edu
Education
PhD in Pure Mathematics
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
2025 - Present
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
University of California - San Diego
2021-2025
Pure Mathematics, Cum Laude
Publications
Closest Point Exterior Calculus
SIGGRAPH Asia Posters(2023)
PublishedTeaching
Fall 2025: Math 1271 - Calculus I
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
recent blog posts
i write about math on occasion
some math writing
these are more long-form and technical than my blog posts
Algebra
Group Cohomology [pdf]hobbies & facts
Hobbies
- Drawing, painting, sketching
- Knitting and crocheting
- Reading: A Visit from the Goon Squad
- Watching: the Mission Impossible Series
Fun Facts
- If I was a Springer GTM book I would be Frank Warner's Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups.
mathematical friends
my friends who also do math in some shape or form