GPA: 3.58/4.0
Graduated cum laude with Distinction in Mathematics.
This proposal focused on a long-standing open problem in singularity theory known as Lê’s Conjecture, which concerns the equisingularity of complex analytic surfaces with one-dimensional singular loci.
My approach, in collaboration with Laurentiu Maxim, reformulates this conjecture using the theory of mixed Hodge modules and perverse sheaves. Building on my earlier work on non-isolated singularities, we reinterpret the vanishing cycles complex φ_f[−1] ℚ_ℂ³[3] as a central object and reduce Lê’s Conjecture to a statement about the purity and semi-simplicity of its non-unipotent part as a mixed Hodge module.
This framework provides a new perspective that connects deep topological properties of singularities to their analytic structure, with the potential to resolve a conjecture that has remained open for nearly 40 years.