The University of Alabama

Thomas Polstra

Assistant Professor · Department of Mathematics

Commutative algebra.
Algebraic geometry.

Prior to joining Alabama, I was a Simons postdoctoral fellow at MSRI, a research associate and lecturer at the University of Virginia, an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah, and a graduate student at the University of Missouri.

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Research support

My research is supported by the National Science Foundation, grant DMS #2502317.

01 / Research

Publications & preprints

Research papers, collaborations,
and expository writing.

  1. Submitted
  2. Submitted
  3. Submitted
  4. Submitted
  5. Forthcoming
  6. On the applications of Big Cohen–Macaulay Modules and Algebras

    To appear in the AMS Contemporary Mathematics volume Lectures on Tight Closure and Its Applications.

    Forthcoming
  7. On F-pure Inversion of Adjunction (opens in a new tab)

    with Austyn Simpson and Kevin Tucker

    Part of Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry—a volume in honor of V. V. Shokurov.

    Book chapter
  8. On the Equality of Test Ideals (opens in a new tab)

    with Ian Aberbach and Craig Huneke

    Adv. Math. (2024).

    Published
  9. Published
  10. Book manuscript
  11. F-purity deforms in Q-Gorenstein rings (opens in a new tab)

    with Austyn Simpson

    Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN (2023), no. 24.

    Published
  12. Compatible ideals in Gorenstein rings (opens in a new tab)

    with Karl Schwede

    Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. (2023).

    Published
  13. Local cohomology bounds and test ideals (opens in a new tab)

    with Ian Aberbach

    Permanent preprint due to delay of publication.

    Permanent preprint
  14. Global F-splitting ratio (opens in a new tab)

    with Alessandro De Stefani and Yongwei Yao

    J. Algebra 610 (2022), 773–792.

    Published
  15. Covers of rational double points in mixed characteristic (opens in a new tab)

    with Javier Carvajal-Rojas, Linquan Ma, Kevin Tucker, and Karl Schwede

    J. Singul. 23 (2021), 127–150.

    Published
  16. A theorem about maximal Cohen–Macaulay modules (opens in a new tab)

    Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2022, no. 3, 2086–2094.

    Published
  17. Global Frobenius Betti numbers and Euler characteristic (opens in a new tab)

    with Alessandro De Stefani and Yongwei Yao

    Michigan Math. J. 71 (2022), no. 3, 533–552.

    Published
  18. F-nilpotent rings and permanence properties (opens in a new tab)

    with Jennifer Kenkel, Kyle Maddox, and Austyn Simpson

    J. Commut. Algebra 15 (2023), no. 4, 559–575.

    Published
  19. Equimultiplicity theory of strongly F-regular rings (opens in a new tab)

    with Ilya Smirnov

    Michigan Math. J. Advance Publication 1–20, 2021.

    Published
  20. Published
  21. F-signature under birational morphisms (opens in a new tab)

    with Linquan Ma, Karl Schwede, and Kevin Tucker

    Forum Math. Sigma 7 (2019), e11, 20 pp.

    Published
  22. Continuity of Hilbert–Kunz multiplicity and F-signature (opens in a new tab)

    with Ilya Smirnov

    Nagoya Mathematical Journal, 1–24. doi:10.1017/nmj.2018.43.

    Published
  23. Globalizing F-invariants (opens in a new tab)

    with Alessandro De Stefani and Yongwei Yao

    Adv. Math. 350 (2019), 359–395.

    Published
  24. Published
  25. Generalizing Serre’s Splitting Theorem and Bass’s Cancellation Theorem via free-basic elements (opens in a new tab)

    with Alessandro De Stefani and Yongwei Yao

    Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 146 (2018), no. 4, 1417–1430.

    Published
  26. Published
  27. Depths and Stanley depths of path ideals of spines (opens in a new tab)

    with Daniel Campos, Susan Morey, and Chelsey Paulsen

    Involve 9(1) (2016), 155–170.

    Published
  28. Depths and Cohen–Macaulay Properties of Path Ideals (opens in a new tab)

    with Daniel Campos, Susan Morey, and Chelsey Paulsen

    Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 218 (2014), 1537–1543.

    Published

02 / Erdős Institute

Quantitative finance

Program development and instruction for PhDs transitioning into quantitative finance.

I serve as an organizer and instructor for the Erdős Institute's Quant Finance Boot Camp.

The boot camp develops probabilistic and computational tools for financial modeling, moving from stock-path models and volatility to option pricing, Black–Scholes, hedging, Monte Carlo methods, stochastic volatility, and model calibration.

Curriculum vitae

Academic appointments, education, publications, and research support.

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03 / Contact

Get in touch

Office

Gordon Palmer Hall, 332C
Department of Mathematics
The University of Alabama