Jean-Baptiste Bellynck
Undergraduate student at the University of Munich (LMU), studying high school teaching for computer sciences and mathematics.
Research Interests
Welcome, fellow researchers! I'm neither a master, PhD nor a Post-doc student but a curious undergraduate trying to enter academia. Currently, I visit conferences out of my league and my own pocket in order to listen to mathematicians and explore my favourite two subjects geometric topology and geometric group theory. You're probably on this page because you met me once!
Last year, I went to Japan, visited some more conferences, wrote my very first paper with professor Eiko Kin and developed a moderately known web-app, called Graphicayly. I will finish my current degree October 2025 and then I'll start looking for a PhD position. I can do programming, teaching, paper reading and conferences. Please write me an E-mail if you're a busy professor and if you need someone to lessen your work load :)
Apart from maths? I like to sing in my university choir, I like to read books. I like to draw and I like computer games, especially strategic multiplayer games.
Publicised and non-publicised work
- Bachelor Thesis: Konstruktion einer Gruppe mit unlösbarem Wortproblem.
Under Sebastian Hensel. PDF link. - On Train Tracks and Splitting Sequences.
Under Eiko Kin. PDF link. - Agol cycles of pseudo-Anosov maps on the 2-punctured torus and 5-punctured sphere.
With Eiko Kin. ArXiv link.
Other Projects
- My Lexicon: A knowledge database created using Obsidian to store math concepts I'd like to remember
- Programming Project: Graphicayley
- Presentation at the EACGT: Visualizing Cayley graphs of finitely presented groups using force-directed graph algorithms
- What is an Agol cycle: Presentation for the What Is seminar at Osaka University (in Japanese) [Script]
- FrontierLab Presentation/Poster/Report: Some easy summaries of the research I did at Osaka university
Visited Conferences
- Integral structures in geometry and representation theury (Paderborn University, Germany)
- Intelligence of Low-dimensional Topology 2024 (Kyoto University, Japan)
- MSJ Spring Meeting 2024 (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)
- *The 19th East Asian Conference on Geometric Topology (Kyoto University, Japan)
- Magnitude 2023 (Osaka University, Japan)
- 4-dimensional topology 2023 (Osaka University, Japan)
- Topology and Computers 2023 (Keio University, Japan)
Conferences where I gave a talk are highlighted with a star*.