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                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Cappadocia Turkey June 2016 with CGC.
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I am an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Alabama in the Department of Mathematics. 
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​​My research is in the areas of geometry and topology of low dimensional manifolds and symplectic and contact topology and Heegaard-Floer homology.
 
I moved to the University of Alabama in August 2016. Previously, I was a Whyburn Instructor at the University of Virginia from 2013-2016, and before that was a CRM postdoc in Montreal, Canada from 2012-2013. I received my PhD in mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012. My supervisor was John B. Etnyre. I was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn from May-August 2014, and a member of Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley from January-June 2010.

My research, educational and outreach activities are supported by an NSF CAREER award (DMS 2144363),  NSF Standard Award (DMS 2105525) and Simons Foundation Award (636841 BT).




NEWS:
  • Laura Starkston, Tom Mark and I are co-organizing a workshop on "Interactions between symplectic and holomorphic convexity in 4 dimensions" at the Banff International Research Station in Alberta, Canada from April 9-14, 2023.   
  • Hannah Turner, Jon Simone and I are co-organizing a special session on  "Interactions between 3- and 4-manifolds" at AMS Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting at University of Tennessee, Oct 15-16, 2022. 
  • Angela Wu, Sam Lisi and I are co-organizing a special session on  "Low Dimensional Symplectic and Contact Topology, Their Invariants and Interactions" at AMS Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting at University of South Alabama, Nov 20-21, 2021.
  • I will be spending the months of September through November of 2019 in Montreal, visiting CIRGET. During this time, I will also attend a month long "CRM 50th Anniversary Program: Low Dimensional Topology" in Montreal as a CRM-Simons Scholar in Residence. 
  • I will be attending IAS/park City Mathematics Program on "Quantum Field Theory and Manifold Invariants" from June 30-July 21 in Park City Utah.
  • Mangala Krishnamurthy and I are co-organizing a Public Lecture: Why does Ramanujan,  "The Man Who Knew Infinity" matter  by Ken Ono @ 5pm March 5, 2019 in  LY 38.
  • John Etnyre, Shea Vela-Vick and I are co-organizing a special session on  "Geometry and Topology of Low Dimensional Manifolds, and Their Invariants" at AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting at Auburn University, March 16-17, 2019.
  • I am organizing a Public Lecture: “Becoming a Mathematician in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century America: The Women’s Story” by Karen Parshall , @ 5pm March 18, 2019 in Gorgas 205

Contact Information:
Office: 313B Gordon Palmer
btosun@ua.edu
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