About
I am an RTG Postdoc at UVA. Previously, I was a graduate student at the University of Chicago working with Shmuel Weinberger. Before that, I was an undergraduate at Cornell working with Jason Manning.
My CV
Research Interests
- Algebraic K-theory (specifically the K-theory of group rings), surgery theory and applications of the Farrell-Jones conjecture
- Smoothing theory
- Group actions on high dimensional manifolds
- Geometric group theory (specifically how it interacts with group cohomology)
Preprints and Publications
- Smooth models of fibered partially hyperbolic systems. (with Jonathan DeWitt and Meg Doucette)
- The rational homotopy of stable $C_p$-smoothings.
- The Whitehead group and stably trivial $G$-smoothings. Submitted
- Chern class obstructions to smooth equivariant rigidity. In revision
- Torus bundles over lens spaces. Forum Mathematicum, 2024
- A spectral sequence for Dehn fillings. Algebraic & Geometric Topology, 2021
- Cohomology and the Bowditch boundary. (with Jason Manning) Michigan Mathematical Journal, 2020
Contact Me
Email: dfh3fs@virginia.edu
Office: Kerchof 301