About

////////////////////////////////////////////

I am a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ohio State University. My research interests include various interactions of topology and geometry with probability, statistical physics, and combinatorics.

You can email me at mkahle (AT SYMBOL) DEPT.UNIVERSITY.edu.

I am currently advising PhD students Shreeya Behera, Chris Donnay, and Andrew Vander Werf (co-advised with Elliot Paquette).

My former PhD students:

• Ayat Ababneh (2022, OSU)
• Paul Duncan (2022, OSU)
• Jimin Kim (2022, OSU)
• Francisco Martinez Figueroa (2022, OSU)
• Katie Ritchey (2019, OSU) is a tenure-track assistant professor in the math department at University of Mount Union.
• Andrew Newman (2018, OSU) is a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon.
• Érika Roldán (co-advised with Víctor Pérez-Abreu) (2018, CIMAT) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the EuroTechPostdoc Programme.
• Kyle Parsons (2017, OSU) is a data scientist at Root Insurance.
• Greg Malen (2016, OSU) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Union College.

Postdocs I've worked with:

• Benjamin Schweinhart is an assistant professor at George Mason University.
• Hannah Alpert is an assistant professor at Auburn University.
• Fedya Manin is an assistant professor at UC Santa Barbara.
• Izhar Oppenheim is a senior lecturer at Ben Gurion University.
• Matthew Wright is an associate professor at St. Olaf College.

Places: faculty, Ohio State University (2011-present); Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2010-11); Samelson Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University (2007-2010); PhD, University of Washington (2001-2007); M.S., Colorado State University (1999-2001)

Visiting positions: TU Berlin, Germany, 2019–2020; ICERM, Providence, Rhode Island, Autumn 2016; CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico, Summer 2016; IMA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Spring 2014; MRSI, Berkeley, California, Autumn 2006; IAS-PCMI, Park City, Utah, Summer 2004

Awards: Fellow of the AMS (Class of 2019), Simons Fellow (2019), NSF CAREER (2014), Sloan Fellow (2012).