carroll.sea(at)northeastern(dot)edu
I am currently a 5th year mathematics PhD student at Northeastern University, advised by Professor Alex Martsinkovsky. My thesis is centered around Euler characteristics in group cohomology, with a particular focus on arithmetic groups and mapping class groups.
Previously, I received my Master of Science in mathematics from The University of Auckland, under the supervision of Professor Jeroen Schillewaert. We studied rigidity theorems for lattice subgroups in semisimple Lie groups and connections with arithmetic groups.
Research Interests
I use methods from homological algebra and K-theory to study groups and their integral representations. I am particularly interested in arithmetic groups, mapping class groups, and their (rational) Euler characteristics.
I am interested in the ideas of approximation, cotorsion pairs, and singularity categories as introduced by Auslander and Buchweitz. In particular, applying the generalised theory of Gorenstein projective approximations to non-commutative integral group rings.
Much more broadly, most problems that involve the action of an (infinite, discrete) group on some space or object I find interesting. To name a few examples; groups acting on trees and Bass-Serre Theory, lattices in semisimple Lie groups and their relation to arithmetic groups, the topology and combinatorics of group presentations and the associated 2-dimensional cell complexes.