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T. (Tom) Manopulo

PhD Candidate
Fundamental Mathematics

I am an algebraic geometer, with interests both in arithmetic and geometric aspects; my background from my Masters in Bonn is in p-adic Hodge theory, with a focus on the geometry of the Fargues-Fontaine curve. Currently I'm in my second PhD year and I am studying moduli spaces of sheaves and DT invariants under the supervision of Martijn Kool.

 

 

 

 

A quote from Toni Cade Bambara

I began writing in a serious way鈥攖hough I can't recall a time when I wasn't jotting stuff down and trying to dramatize lessons learned鈥攚hen I got into teaching. It was a way to keep track of myself, to monitor myself. I'm a very seductive teacher, persuasive, infectious, overwhelming, irresistible. I worked hard in the classroom to teach students to critique me constantly, to protect themselves from my nonsense; but let's face it, the teacher-student relationship we've been trained in is very colonial in nature. It's fraught with dangers. The power given teachers over students' minds, students' spirits, students' development鈥攎y God! To rise above that, to insist of myself and of them that we refashion that relationship along progressive lines demanded a great deal of courage, imagination, energy and will. Writing was a way to "hear" myself, check myself. Writing was/is an act of discovery. I frequently discovered that I was dangerous, a menace, virtually unfit to move the students and myself into certain waters. I would have to go into the classroom and beat them up for not taking me to the wall, for succumbing to mere charm and flash, when they should have been challenging me, "kicking my ass." I will be eternally grateful to all those students at City College and Livingston/Rutgers for the caring and courageous way they helped to develop me as a teacher, a person, a writer . . . and a mother, too.