Hi! I’m Sierra and I am a fourth year PhD Student at Georgia Tech. My research is in symplectic topology and my advisor is John Etnyre. My interests are in low-dimensional topology, specifically 4-manifolds which have the structure of a Lefschetz fibration.
I enjoy studying properties of genus-2 and genus-3 Lefschetz fibrations, including computing their fundamental groups and coming up with new identity factorizations of the mapping class group.
See below for most recent CV.
I am (and was previously) supported by the RTG Graduate Fellowship, President’s Fellowship, Goizueta Fellowship, and the GT-UCEM Fellowship.
Contact: sknavel3 (at) gatech (dot) edu
Site last updated June 2024.
Here is my CV (last updated June 2024):