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36
Citations
4179
World Ranking
2691
National Ranking
1104

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Thomas Lam is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States and works primarily in the field of mathematics. Their research encompasses multiple subfields, including Geometry and Topology, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Mathematical Physics, Algebra and Number Theory, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The main topics covered by their work include Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics, Algebraic structures and combinatorial models, Advanced Algebra and Geometry, Geometric and Algebraic Topology, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Advanced Topics in Algebra, and Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Thomas Lam include Pavel Galashin, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Song He, David E Speyer, and Seung Jin Lee.

They have published multiple papers in several notable venues, with recurring contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), Advances in Mathematics, Duke Mathematical Journal, Journal of High Energy Physics, and the OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

Recent researched papers include:

  • Positive geometries and canonical forms (2023) in OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Non-perturbative geometries for planar N ℕ = 4 SYM amplitudes (2021) in Deep Blue (University of Michigan)
  • Binary geometries, generalized particles and strings, and cluster algebras (2023) in Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Cluster Configuration Spaces of Finite Type (2021) in Symmetry Integrability and Geometry Methods and Applications
  • Likelihood degenerations (2023) in Advances in Mathematics

Thomas Lam has been recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Positive Geometries and Canonical Forms

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Yuntao Bai;Thomas Lam

  • Positroid varieties: juggling and geometry

    Allen Knutson;Thomas Lam;David E. Speyer

  • Alcoved Polytopes, I

    Thomas Lam;Alexander Postnikov

  • Quantum cohomology of G/P and homology of affine Grassmannian

    Thomas Lam;Mark Shimozono

  • AFFINE STANLEY SYMMETRIC FUNCTIONS

    Thomas Lam

  • Schubert polynomials for the affine Grassmannian

    Thomas Lam

  • Stringy Canonical Forms

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Nima Arkani-Hamed;Song He;Thomas Lam;Thomas Lam

  • Positroid varieties I: juggling and geometry

    Allen Knutson;Thomas Lam;David E Speyer

  • Combinatorial Hopf Algebras and K-Homology of Grassmanians

    Thomas Lam;Pavlo Pylyavskyy

  • Totally nonnegative Grassmannian and Grassmann polytopes

    Thomas Lam

  • Schur positivity and Schur log-concavity

    Thomas Lam;Alexander Postnikov;Pavlo Pylyavskyy

  • Non-perturbative geometries for planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM amplitudes

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Nima Arkani-Hamed;Thomas Lam;Thomas Lam;Marcus Spradlin

  • Back stable Schubert calculus

    Thomas Lam;Seung Jin Lee;Mark Shimozono

  • Positive Configuration Space

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Nima Arkani-Hamed;Thomas Lam;Thomas Lam;Marcus Spradlin

  • Laurent phenomenon algebras

    Thomas Lam;Pavlo Pylyavskyy

  • K -theory Schubert calculus of the affine Grassmannian

    Thomas Lam;Anne Schilling;Mark Shimozono

  • Projections of Richardson varieties

    Allen Knutson;Thomas Lam;David E Speyer

  • k-Schur Functions and Affine Schubert Calculus

    Thomas Lam;Luc Lapointe;Jennifer Morse;Anne Schilling

  • Total positivity in loop groups, I: Whirls and curls

    Thomas Lam;Pavlo Pylyavskyy

  • Total positivity for cominuscule Grassmannians

    Thomas Lam;Lauren Williams

  • Affine Insertion and Pieri Rules for the Affine Grassmannian

    Thomas Lam;Luc Lapointe;Jennifer Morse;Mark Shimozono

  • Alcoved Polytopes II

    Thomas Lam;Alexander Postnikov

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Shimozono
Mark Shimozono Virginia Tech
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Nima Arkani-Hamed Institute for Advanced Study
David E Speyer
David E Speyer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Frank Sottile
Frank Sottile Texas A&M University
Lauren Williams
Lauren Williams Harvard University
Victor Reiner
Victor Reiner University of Minnesota
Meinolf Geck
Meinolf Geck University of Stuttgart

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