Robert Cass

Email: cassr[at]umich[dot]edu

Since Fall 2022 I have been a Postdoctoral Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan.

During 2022-2023 I was an NSF postdoc sponsored by Charlotte Chan, and during 2021-2022 I was an NSF postdoc at Caltech, sponsored by Xinwen Zhu.

I received my Ph.D. in mathematics at Harvard University in 2021, advised by Mark Kisin. I completed my B.S. in mathematics at the University of Kentucky in 2016.

My research interests include the Langlands program and related topics in algebraic geometry and representation theory. I am particularly interested in the application of ideas from the geometric Langlands program and motivic homotopy theory.


Research

Central motives on parahoric flag varieties (with Thibaud van den Hove and Jakob Scholbach), Preprint.

Geometrization of the Satake transform for mod p Hecke algebras (with Yujie Xu), Preprint.

The geometric Satake equivalence for integral motives (with Thibaud van den Hove and Jakob Scholbach), Preprint.

Constant term functors with F_p-coefficients (with Cédric Pépin), Documenta Mathematica 29 (2024), 343--397.

Central elements in affine mod p Hecke algebras via perverse F_p-sheaves, Compositio Mathematica 157 (2021), 2215–2241.

Perverse F_p-sheaves on the affine Grassmannian, Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik 785 (2022), 219–272.

Here are the arXiv versions of my papers.


Invited Talks

University of Michigan Commutative Algebra Seminar - November 13, 2023
Geometric and Categorical Representation Theory at Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise - October 23-27, 2023
Michigan State University Algebra Seminar - October 18, 2023
Columbia University Automorphic Forms and Arithmetic Seminar - February 17, 2023
University of Padua Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar - February 13, 2023
Caltech Algebra & Geometry Seminar - May 16, 2022
MIT Lie Groups Seminar - April 6, 2022
UCLA Number Theory Seminar - March 7, 2022
Motives and Representation Theory at the University of Münster and Sydney - September 28, 2021
Representations of p-adic groups and Langlands correspondences at the CMS 75th +1 Anniversary Summer Meeting in Ottawa, Canada - June 8, 2021
UCLA Number Theory Seminar - March 1, 2021
University of Münster Arithmetic Geometry Seminar - December 8, 2020
University of Maryland Lie Groups and Representation Theory Seminar - September 14, 2020
Harvard Number Theory Seminar - September 9, 2020
Recent Advances in Modern p-Adic Geometry (RAMpAGe) Seminar - August 20, 2020
Graduate Student Plenary Speaker at Number Theory Series in Los Angeles II, Occidental College - February 8, 2020
University of Michigan Algebraic Geometry Seminar - February 5, 2020
Institut de Recherche Mathématique de Rennes, Séminaire de Géométrie Arithmétique - December 19, 2019
L'Institut Galilée, Paris 13, Séminaire de Géométrie Arithmétique et Motivique - December 13, 2019
Yale Algebra and Number Theory Seminar - December 3, 2019
MSRI Hot Topics Workshop: Recent Progress In Langlands Program - April 8, 2019
Clemson University Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar - March 24, 2015


Seminars

In 2021-2022 I co-organized the Caltech Algebra & Geometry Seminar.

In 2020-2021 I co-organized the Harvard Number Theory Seminar.


Teaching

University of Michigan:
Math 312: Applied Modern Algebra - Fall 2024
Math 217: IBL Linear Algebra (two sections) - Fall 2023

Harvard:
Matehmatics 21B: Linear Algebra and Differential Equations - Spring 2021
Mathematics MA: Introduction to Functions and Calculus I - Fall 2018
I received a Certificate of Distinction for each of these courses.


Expository Writing

Hurwitz schemes - my minor thesis