About me

I graduated from high school in the Greater Houston, TX area, and I received my B.S. in Mathematics from Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. Since September 2024, I have been a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. I intend to work in research following the completion of my degree. I am interested in differential geometry, with a current interest on CR geometry, inverse problems, and microlocal analysis.

During my undergrad, I worked with Dr. Lino Amorim on a project studying an analogue to Chen-Ruan cohomology on dihedral twisted sectors. Prior to this, I participated in the 2022 REU in Mathematical Analysis at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga under Dr. Roger Nichols, where my cohort studied the weak convergence of the spectral shift operator between two resolvent-comparable Schrödinger operators.

External to academia, my hobbies include (but are not limited to):

  • swimming (except backstroke)
  • road-tripping/travelling
  • rock climbing and hiking
  • road biking
  • skiing
  • music (particularly techno)
  • eating good food
  • making and solving puzzles
  • attempting to make a website
  • some nonempty concurrent intersection of the above.

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carson connard

mathematics ph.d. student at the university of washington


my bio, cv, and research statement

2026-06-01