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Adam Onus

Hello! I am a mathematics PhD student at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) supervised by Dr Primoz Skraba. I am due to graduate in 2025.

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My PhD project on Topological Analysis of Structured Data is funded by QMUL and the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research.

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Previously I was a student of Vanessa Robins and Martin Helmer at the Australian National University (ANU).

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See more: CV, QMUL, ArXiv, Google Scholar

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Research Interests

Applied algebraic topology, Topological data analysis, Stochastic topology

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"I like looking for holes in things"

My research is in applied algebraic topology and topological data analysis. I am particularly interested in problems with calculating the (persistent) homology of infinite periodic data sets and their finite quotient spaces. More generally, I enjoy not specialising in any one particular area. I enjoy finding applications of very pure mathematical objects (such as spectral sequence) on real world data. I also enjoy looking at the intersections of different fields, such as algebra and analysis or geometry and probability.

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Given different circumstances in my life, I could have also ended up working in operator algebras, complex analysis or even theoretical astrophysics or nuclear physics.

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More About Me

In no particular order:

  • I am a firm believer in Federico Ardila's axioms of learning mathematics (see here).

  • My sister already has a PhD! She's much smarter than me and is a huge inspiration. She's a sport scientist/biologist, but I hope we can write a paper together one day.

  • On a Friday evening there is a probability of 1 that you will find me at a pub with my friends from QMUL.

  • I highly recommend Eugenia Cheng's X+Y  as essential reading.

  • My proudest accomplishment is keeping my pothos plant alive long enough to get cuttings

  • Ich lerne, Deutsch zu sprechen. Ich brauche doch viel Ãœbung und Verbesserung, weil ich gar nicht fließend spreche. Ich finde es allerdings, großartig zu lernen.

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QMUL maths PhD cohort - May 2022

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Let’s Connect!

Feel free to email me at a.onus@qmul.ac.uk

Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS

a (dot) onus (at) qmul (dot) ac (dot) uk

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