CV

Dylan Galt

Education & Employment

2025 - ongoing: Harvard University (NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, sponsoring scientist: Cliff Taubes)

2020 - 2025: Stony Brook University (Ph.D. in Mathematics, advisor: Simon Donaldson)

2016 - 2020: Princeton University (B.A. in Mathematics)

Awards & Honors

2025 - 2028: NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

2025: President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students (Stony Brook University)

2025: Outstanding Research by a Graduate Student Receiving a Ph.D. (Stony Brook University, Department of Mathematics)

2022-2024: Collaboration Graduate Student in Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics

2023: SUNY GREAT (Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent) Award (Stony Brook University)

2022: Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching (Stony Brook University, Department of Mathematics)

2022: NSF GRFP Honorable Mention

Invited Talks & Presentations

Nov 2025 Humboldt Gauge Theory Seminar

Nov 2025: CMSA Differential Geometry and Physics Seminar

Oct 2025: AMS Virtual Meeting Special Session on Gauge Theory and Low-Dimensional Topology

Oct 2025: CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar

May 2025: Rutgers Gauge Theory, Low-Dimensional Topology, and Geometric Analysis Conference

Apr 2025: Leeds Geometry and Analysis Seminar

Feb 2025: Maryland Geometric Analysis Seminar

Feb 2025: Rutgers Gauge Theory Seminar

Jan 2025: Wisconsin-Madison Geometry and Topology Seminar

Jan 2025: Cornell Geometric Analysis Seminar

Jul 2023: BIG IV Workshop Geometric flows and related topics

Teaching

2020 - 2025: Teaching Assistant (Stony Brook University)

  • Calculus I (2 semesters)

  • Real Analysis I (3 semesters)

  • Applied Abstract Algebra (1 semester)

  • Geometry for Teachers (1 semester)

  • Language, Logic, and Proof (1 semester, 3 summer sessions)

Conferences Organized

(Boston College) March 28-29, 2026: AMS Sectional Meeting Special Session on Topology, Gauge Theory, and Special Geometric Structures

(Harvard) 2025 - ongoing: Gauge Theory and Topology Seminar co-organizer

Service, Mentoring, and Outreach

2025: Lecturer at Stony Brook Institute for STEM Education After School Enrichment Program

  • Taught a 2-week course on knot theory for Miller Place and Port Jefferson high school students.

2023 - 2025: Co-founder and co-organizer of ENYGMMa (Empowering New York Gender Minority Mathematicians)

  • Seminar series held in rotation at Stony Brook, Columbia, CUNY, and NYU.

2022 - 2025: Guest Lecturer for Stony Brook graduate end-of-semester talks

  • Gave expository lecture on the Krein-Milman theorem for the undergraduate math club.

2022: Lecturer at Stony Brook Institute for STEM Education Summer Math Camp

  • Taught a mini-course on surface topology for high school students.

2022: Co-organizer of a learning seminar for graduate students

  • Gauge theory student seminar on deformations of multivalued harmonic functions.

2021: Lecturer for Stony Brook Saturday Summer Math Program

  • Taught a mini course on modular arithmetic and affine cryptosystems for high school students.

2021: Co-organizer of the Directed Reading Program at Stony Brook

  • Program that pairs undergraduate math students with graduate mentors for a semester-long reading project.

References

 

Simon K. Donaldson (Ph.D. Advisor)

 

Clifford H. Taubes (NSF Sponsoring Scientist)

 

H. Blaine Lawson, Jr.

 

Mark McConnell