Noah Snyder

How to contact me:

nsnyder1 indiana edu (students)
nsnyder gmail com (everyone else)
303 Rawles Hall

Thesis writing fellowship information.

My papers:

ArXiv
Google scholar

My graduate students:

Ryan Vitale
Josh Edge
Nachiket Karnick
Patrick Chu
Jordyn Harriger

About me:

I received my Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2009 under the supervision of Nicolai Reshetikhin. I was an NSF postdoc at Columbia University, where my sponsoring scientist was Dylan Thurston. I have been at Indiana since January 2013, and became associate professor in 2017. My research concerns example-driven questions in quantum algebra and quantum topology. In particular, I am interested in the classification, topology, and arithmetic of fusion categories and subfactors.

Slides for talks:

Me on the internet:


Secret Blogging Seminar
MathOverflow
Academia SE

Application materials

Here are some job and grant application materials. I share these in the hopes that they'll be of help to people trying to put together their own applications.

2010-2011 Tenure-Track job applications:

In the former cycle I had no interviews, and in the latter cycle I accepted my current position at Indiana University.

2010 CV
2010 Research Statement
2010 Teaching Statement
2010 Publication List
I had research letters from Pavel Etingof, Vaughan Jones, Victor Ostrik, Nicolai Reshetikhin, and Dylan Thurston; and a teaching letter from Pat Gallagher.

2011 CV
2011 Research Statement
2011 Teaching Statement
2011 Publication List
I had research letters from Pavel Etingof, Mike Freedman, Vaughan Jones, Victor Ostrik, Nicolai Reshetikhin, and Dylan Thurston; and a teaching letter from Pat Gallagher.
I also gave some job talks. They're here in chronological order so you can see the process of refinement. Indiana, Oregon, Vanderbilt, WashU, and Toronto.

Fall 2008 postdoc applications.

Postdoc CV
Postdoc Research Statement
Postdoc Teaching Statement
Postdoc AMS Cover Sheet
Cover Letter
Postdoc Publication List
NSF Postdoc application (warning the rules have changed since then)
I had research letters from Dror Bar-Natan, Vaughan Jones, and Nicolai Reshetikhin. I had a teaching letter from Richard Borcherds and one from Mira Bernstein and Dave Savitt

Fall 2012 and 2013 NSF standard grants

I applied for NSF standard grants through the Algebra and Number Theory program. Neither grant was funded. Based on helpful feedback from my program officer I decided to switch future applications to the Analysis program.
2012 Application
2012 Reviews
2013 Application
2013 Reviews

Fall 2014 NSF standard and CAREER grants

I applied for an NSF standard grant through the Analysis program and an CAREER grant with Analysis primary and Algebra secondary. The latter was funded, and so I withdrew the former.
2014 CAREER Application
2014 CAREER Reviews
2014 Standard Application

Tenure File:

In Summer of 2017 I successfully applied for tenure and promotion to associate professor.
CV
Service Statement
Teaching Statement
Research Statement
Annotated publication list (for letter writers)

Expository papers and teaching notes:

In the fall of 2003 I wrote a final paper called "Automorphism Groups of Curves" for Robin Hartshorne's class on algebraic curves. Here it is in pdf.

In the summer of 2002 I taught a tutorial at Harvard on L-functions and zeta functions.
Here are the notes from lectures (in pdf): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, 7, 8 and 9, 10
Here are the homeworks (in pdf): 1, 2
Here are the suggested paper topics (in pdf).

In the spring of 2002 I wrote my senior thesis at Harvard under the supervision of Benedict Gross. It was titled "Artin L-Functions: A Historical Approach." It received highest honors from the math department. Here it is in pdf.

In the fall of 2001 I wrote a paper on the distribution of primes in F_p[x] for a seminar taught by Tom Brennan. I received advice on both the content and presentation of this paper from both Tom Brennan and Keith Conrad. Here it is in pdf.

Some puzzles I've written:

2006 MIT Mystery Hunt
2011 MIT Mystery Hunt
2008 Mathcamp Puzzle Hunt
The Name of the Rose mini-hunt
Iron Puzzle #2
Iron Puzzle #5