# Eric G. Samperton

## Contact Information

E-mail: e g s a m p @ either math.ucdavis.edu or just ucdavis.edu. Make sure to remove all the blank spaces.

Office: 2137 Mathematical Sciences Building.

Snail Mail:
Mathematics Department
1 Shields Avenue
University of California
Davis, CA 95616

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Math Department at UC Davis. My advisor is Greg Kuperberg. My thesis work lies at the intersection of computational complexity and 3-manifold topology. I am also collaborating with Harry Baik on a geometric group theory project. I am broadly interested in geometric topology and group theory, quantum algebra, and computational complexity and quantum computing.

Here's my CV. Here's a very full, loose lamination with $$\mathbb{Z}/4 * \mathbb{Z}/3$$ symmetry:

And here's a video of a talk I gave at the University of Warwick: YouTube.

## Writing

##### Preprints

"Computational complexity of enumerative 3-manifold invariants." PhD thesis. In preparation.

"Coloring invariants of knots are often intractable." With Greg Kuperberg. In preparation.

"Branched Schur invariants and (2+1)-D HQFT." arXiv Front. Submitted.

"Computational complexity and 3-manifolds and zombies." With Greg Kuperberg. arXiv Front. Submitted.

"Spaces of invariant circular orders of groups." With Harry Baik. arXiv Front. Accepted for publication in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics.

"On laminar groups, Tits alternatives, and convergence group actions on $$S^2$$." With Juan Alonso and Harry Baik. arXiv Front

##### Notes

"Tannaka reconstruction for finite groups." I went over this in discussion section for MATH 250B. PDF