Anthony Nguyen

I'm a mathematics PhD student at Minnesota-Twin Cities. My advisor is Professor Tian-Jun Li.
I previously studied mathematics and physics at Cornell.

Contact Information:

Research Interests:

I am mainly interested in differential geometry and symplectic geometry.

Projects:

An almost Kähler Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem with applications, with Shengzhen Ning and Lauren Pusey-Nazzaro. (arXiv)

Minimal surfaces in holographic entanglement entropy. (PDF)

Education:

• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. PhD. Mathematics (2023-Present)
  Advisor: Prof. Tian-Jun Li
• Cornell University. B.A. Mathematics, Physics (2018-2022)
  Advisor: Prof. Xin Zhou

Conferences and Workshops:

• Rutgers Symplectic Summer School 2026, Rutgers-New Brunswick
• Kylerec 2026, Killington, VT
• Workshop - Symplectic structures and trisections, CIRM, Marseille
• Workshop - Low dimensional topology and Floer theory, CRM, Montreal
• Rutgers Symplectic Summer School 2025, Rutgers-New Brunswick
• GTA: Philadelphia 2025, Temple University
• 11th Yamabe Memorial Symposium, University of Minnesota
• Topology Students Workshop 2024, Vanderbilt Univerity

Activities:

• Co-organizer for Student Symplectic Geometry Seminar.
• Co-organizer and mentor for Directed Reading Program.

Teaching:

Minnesota:

• MATH 2373, TA, Fall 2025.
• MATH 2574H, TA, Spring 2025.
• MATH 2243, TA, Fall 2024.
• MATH 1271, TA, Spring 2024.
• MATH 1271, TA, Fall 2023.

Cornell:

• MATH 1920, UTA, Fall 2019.
• PHYS 1112, UTA, Fall 2019.