# 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)** - Imperial College London & Simons Center for Geometry and Physics - [*sdonaldson@scgp.stonybrook.edu*](mailto:sdonaldson@scgp.stonybrook.edu) **Clifford H. Taubes (NSF Sponsoring Scientist)** - Harvard University - [*chtaubes@math.harvard.edu*](mailto:chtaubes@math.harvard.edu) **H. Blaine Lawson, Jr.** - Stony Brook University - [*blaine@math.stonybrook.edu*](mailto:blaine@math.stonybrook.edu) **Mark McConnell** - Princeton University - [*markwm@princeton.edu*](mailto:markwm@princeton.edu)