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↪ Publications and preprints
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↪ Recordings of talks
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Preprints ⤴

• On the detection of knotted spheres by their traces in high dimensions
  joint with Valentina Bais, Alessio Di Prisa, Daniel Hartman, Chun-Sheng Hsueh, Marc Kegel, Alice Merz, Mark Pencovitch, Arunima Ray, Diego Santoro, Laura Wakelin
  ↪ arXiv:2511.07251

Publications and accepted papers ↪ arXiv

These are listed in reverse chronological order of writing. For a list in reverse chronological order of acceptance, please refer to my CV on the About me page.

1. Braid positive surgery diagrams
   joint with Marc Kegel
   Accepted for publication in Glasg. Math. J.
   ↪ arXiv:2512.14589
2. Non-complex cobordisms between quasipositive knots
   joint with Maciej Borodzik
   Accepted for publication in J. Math. Pures Appl. (2025), DOI
   ↪ arXiv:2504.04894
3. Algorithms in 4-manifold topology
   joint with Stefan Bastl, Rhuaidi Burke, Rima Chatterjee, Subhankar Dey, Alison Durst, Stefan Friedl, Daniel Galvin, Alejandro García Rivas, Tobias Hirsch, Cara Hobohm, Chun-Sheng Hsueh, Marc Kegel, Frieda Kern, Shun Ming Samuel Lee, Clara Löh, Naageswaran Manikandan, Léo Mousseau, Lars Munser, Mark Pencovitch, Patrick Perras, Mark Powell, José Pedro Quintanilha, Lisa Schambeck, David Suchodoll, Martin Tancer, Annika Thiele, Matthias Uschold, Simona Veselá, Melvin Weiß, Magdalina von Wunsch-Rolshoven
   This paper is the result of our joint work at the Workshop on 4-manifolds and algorithms held at the University of Regensburg in September 2024.
   Accepted for publication in Algebr. Geom. Topol.
   ↪ arXiv:2411.08775
   
4. Minimal cobordisms between thin and thick torus knots
   joint with Sebastian Baader, Lukas Lewark, Filip Misev
   ↪ Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc. 69, no. 1 (2026), 177–183.
5. 3-braid knots with maximal 4-genus
   joint with Sebastian Baader, Lukas Lewark, Filip Misev
   ↪ Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Ser. B 11 (2024), 600–621.
6. Strongly quasipositive links are concordant to infinitely many strongly quasipositive links
   Accepted for publication in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
   ↪ arXiv:2210.06612
7. On the nonorientable four-ball genus of torus knots
   joint with Fraser Binns, Sungkyung Kang, Jonathan Simone
   ↪ Algebr. Geom. Topol. 25-4 (2025), 2209–2251.
8. The upsilon invariant at \(1\) of \(3\)-braid knots
   ↪ Algebr. Geom. Topol. 23-8 (2023), 3763–3804.

Doctoral thesis ⤴

On notions of braid positivity and knot concordance, ETH Zurich (2023).
Here are the slides from my PhD defense talk, and the slightly uglier but shorter handout version of the slides.

Me defending my PhD thesis in June 2023, photo credit: Lukas Lewark.

Recordings of talks ⤴

• Strongly quasipositive knots are concordant to infinitely many strongly quasipositive knots, The Low-dimensional Workshop, Erdős Center, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, March 2023.
  🎥 Recording of my blackboard talk and a photo by Sarah Blackwell.
• Strongly quasipositive knots are concordant to infinitely many strongly quasipositive knots, Geometry and Topology Seminar, CIRGET (online), December 2022.
  🎥 Recording of my talk and the slides.
• The alternation number and the Upsilon-invariant at 1 of positive 3-braid knots, Knot online seminar (K-OS) (online), February 2022.
  🎥 Recording of my talk and the slides.

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