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McDougal Lecture in Mathematics

Wednesday, Nov. 13 | 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Steitz 102

Isabel Vogt from Brown University will be giving a lecture titled “Interpolation problems for curves.”

About Isabel Vogt

Isabel Vogt is an associate professor at Brown University. Her work is partially supported by NSF DMS-2200655 and by NSF CAREER Award DMS-2338345. She received her PhD in June 2019 from MIT, where she was a student of Bjorn Poonen and Joe Harris. During the 2019-2020 academic year, she was an NSF postdoc at Stanford University, working with Ravi Vakil. During the 2020-2021 academic year, she was an assistant professor at The University of Washington.

Her research is in the intersection of algebraic geometry and number theory, including the geometry of algebraic curves and rational and low degree points on varieties.