Elise LePage, M.Sc.

Elise LePage will be joining the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University as a postdoctoral research scientist under the mentorship of Professor Andrei Okounkov. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Professor Mina Aganagic. She holds her M.Sc. in theoretical physics from the Perimeter Institute at the University of Waterloo and her B.A. in physics and mathematics from Hamilton College.

LePage’s research lies at the intersection between string theory, low-dimensional topology, and categorical representation theory. Her Ph.D. thesis uses categories of A-branes to compute homological link invariants for arbitrary Lie algebras based on a Lagrangian Floer theory. Her future research goals revolve around continuing to develop techniques for understanding categories of A-branes and applying these techniques to investigate problems in both physics and mathematics, such as computing new invariants of 3- and 4-manifolds and understanding categorified quantum groups using Fukaya categories.