Michael P. Landry
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Saint Louis University
135 Ritter Hall
michael.landry@slu.edu

• CV
  • Assistant Professor at SLU 2023-
  • NSF Postdoc and Chauvenet Postdoc at WashU 2019-23
  • PhD Yale 2019
  • BA UC Berkeley 2013
  • Full CV
• For students
  • Here are some videos I find cool and inspiring:
    • Outside In
    • Not Knot
    • Fermat's Last Theorem
    • Knots to Narnia
  • Here is some great reading material:
    • Gallery of the Infinite by Richard Schwartz
    • The Shape of Space by Jeffrey Weeks
    • Euler's Gem by David Richeson
    • On proof and progress in mathematics by William Thurston
  • If you are considering asking me for a letter of recommendation, I would appreciate if you first read this excellent webpage written by Ravi Vakil and follow the advice there. In particular please ask me at least one month before the deadline, and be ready to send me all of your application materials. Thank you!
• Other links
  • SLU Geometry and Topology Seminar
  • I coörganized the St. Louis Topology Conference (17-19 May 2024). The theme was foliations and flows in 3-manifolds. I designed the conference poster and t-shirt.
  • Slides from a lightning talk about Endperiodic maps, splitting sequences, and branched surfaces (joint with Tsang) at Yair Minsky's 60th birthday conference in May 2023.
  • A poster I made about the paper Endperiodic maps via pseudo-Anosov flows (joint with Minsky and Taylor). This was for a poster session at the workshop "Flexibility and Rigidity in Dynamical Systems" at the Simons Center in March 2022.
  • NCNGT 2021 talk: "Limits of dilatations and depth one foliations." Video and slides.
  • Slides from a talk I gave about the papers "Veering triangulations and the Thurston norm: homology to isotopy" and "A polynomial invariant of veering triangulations."

arxiv // google scholar // mathscinet // orcid

• Transverse surfaces and pseudo-Anosov flows
  With Yair Minsky and Samuel Taylor
  Submitted 2024 // 48 pages // pdf


• Endperiodic maps, splitting sequences, and branched surfaces
  With Chi Cheuk Tsang
  Geometry & Topology, to appear // 113 pages // arxiv:2304.14481 // pdf


• Endperiodic maps via pseudo-Anosov flows
  With Yair Minsky and Samuel Taylor
  Submitted 2023 // 50 pages // arxiv


• Flows, growth rates, and the veering polynomial
  With Yair Minsky and Samuel Taylor
  Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems Vol. 43, no. 9, pp. 3026-3107. 2023. journal, arxiv


• A polynomial invariant for veering triangulations
  With Yair Minsky and Samuel Taylor
  Journal of the European Mathematical Society Vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 731-788. 2024. journal, arxiv


• Veering triangulations and the Thurston norm: homology to isotopy
  Advances in Mathematics, Volume 396, paper 108102, pp. 1-53, 2022. journal, arxiv.


• Stable loops and almost transverse surfaces
  Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 35-75, 2023. journal version


• Taut branched surfaces from veering triangulations
  Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Vol. 18, pp. 1089-1114, 2018. arxiv

• On symplectic capacities of toric domains
  With Matthew McMillan and Emmanuel Tsukerman
  Involve Vol 8 (2015), 665-676. arxiv


• Knot projections with a single multi-crossing
  With C. Adams, T. Crawford, B. DeMeo, A. Tong Lin, M. Montee, S. Park, S. Venkatesh, and F. Yhee
  Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications Vol. 24 No. 3, 2015. arxiv


• Perfect state transfer on quotient graphs
  With E. Fredette, J. Fuller, M. Opperman, C. Tamon, and A. Tollefson
  Quantum Information and Computation Vol. 12 Nos. 3&4, 2012. arxiv