Marc Fersztand

Contact

Research experience

• From 2021: DPhil at Oxford Mathematical Institute
  Supervisors: Prof. Vidit Nanda and Prof. Ulrike Tillmann
• 2020: Three-month long internship at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausaunne (EPFL)
  • Subject: Using Algebraic Topology to characterize shapes of neurons and glial cells
  • Supervisors: Lida Kanari and Prof. Kathryn Hess Bellwald

Articles and Preprints

• Harder-Narasimhan Filtrations of Persistence Modules: with Emile Jacquard, Vidit Nanda and Ulrike Tillmann, 2023 (Arxiv)
• Harder-Narasimhan Filtrations and Zigzag Persistence: with Vidit Nanda and Ulrike Tillmann, Advances in Applied Mathematics Volume 153, 102634, 2024 (Article)

Talks and Posters

• EMG, Cambridge, 2024 (Talk)
• Junior Geometry Seminar, Cambridge, 2024 (Talk)
• ICIAM, Tokyo, 2023 (Poster)
• TDA Week, Kyoto, 2023 (Poster)
• FOCM, Paris, 2023 (Poster)
• Geometry and Topology seminar, Oregon State University, 2023 (Talk)
• PUDDLE Computer Science, Oxford, 2023

Education

• 2020-2021: MSc of Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science at Oxford University
• 2017-2020: "Diplôme d'ingénieur"(Master of science) at Ecole Polytechnique
  Specialization in Theoretical Computer Science and Pure Mathematics
  • Group Science Project(2018-2019): On algebraic integers all conjugates of which belong to a given compact subset of the complex plane (pdf, English version)
  • 3-month-long internship(2020): An energetic method for the KdV equation (pdf in french)
• 2015-2017: Scientific "classes préparatoires" in Mathematics and Physics at the lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris
  • Dissertation: Frobenius numbers (pdf in french)

Teaching

• Tutor
  • C3.9 Computational Algebraic Topology: 2024

• Teaching Assistant
  • C3.1 Algebraic Topology: 2021 and 2022
  • B6.3 Integer Programming: 2021 and 2023
  • C3.9 Computational Algebraic Topology: 2022 and 2023