K.F.
Researcher
Keegan Flood
Geometry Research Group
Research Interests
I am interested in noncommutative geometry, geometric analysis, Cartan geometry, and geometric topology. My primary focus is the extension of classical differential geometric constructions (e.g. jets, differential operators, differential equations, higher order connections, Moyal quantization, multivector fields, Poisson geometry, etc.) to the noncommutative setting of unital associative algebras equipped with some additional structure encoding a notion of ‘‘geometry”.
Noncommutative geometry
Jet functors
Differential operators
Principal symbols
Parabolic geometry
Projective differential geometry
c-projective geometry
Geometric analysis
Hopf algebras
Lagrangian contact geometry
BGG sequences
Tractor calculus
Academic Positions
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2026 – present
Researcher, Mathematics Research Center
ASOIU, Baku, Azerbaijan -
2023 – 2025
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
UniDistance Suisse, Brig, Switzerland -
2020 – 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Education
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2019
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Supervisors: A. Rod Gover and Pedram Hekmati
Thesis: The geometry of solutions to the metrizability equation in projective and c-projective geometry -
2014
M.Math. in Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada
Supervisors: Alexandru Nica
Thesis: Brownian motion and the Dirichlet problem - 2013 B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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Selected Talks
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Constructing canonical calculi
A Quantum of Noncommutativity Ambleside, United Kingdom, 8 July 2025 -
Constructing canonical calculi
Differential Geometry and its Applications. Brno, Czech Republic, 13 September 2025 -
Spencer operators and higher connections in the noncommutative setting
Srní Winter School, Geometry and Physics — Srní, Czech Republic, January 2024 -
Principal symbols in noncommutative geometry
Workshop on Noncommutative and Generalized Geometry in String Theory, Gauge Theory and Related Physical Models — Corfu, Greece, September 2023 -
Principal symbols in noncommutative geometry
Quantum Groups and Noncommutative Geometry in Prague — Prague, Czech Republic, September 2023 -
Jet functors and differential operators in noncommutative geometry
Emergent Geometries from Strings and Quantum Fields — Florence, Italy, July 2023 -
The jet functor in noncommutative geometry
Srní Winter School, Geometry and Physics — Srní, Czech Republic, January 2022 -
C-projectively compact quasi-Kähler metrics with CR boundary
Connections, Symmetries, and Finsler Geometry Conference — Universität Jena, Germany, November 2020 -
The geometry of singular solutions to the c-projective metrizability equation
Differential Geometry Seminar, Masaryk University — Brno, Czech Republic, October 2020 -
C-projective metrizability and CR submanifolds
Analysis Seminar, University of California San Diego — May 2019 -
Non-normal BGG equations and curved orbit decompositions
Australian Mathematical Society Annual Conference — University of Adelaide, December 2018 -
Scalar curvature and projective compactification
Geometry Seminar, KU Leuven — Leuven, Belgium, November 2018 -
Scalar curvature and projective compactification
Sophus Lie Seminar, University of Tromsø — Norway, November 2018 -
Conformal geometry via tractor calculus
Sophus Lie Seminar, University of Tromsø — Norway, November 2018 -
Scalar curvature and projective compactification
Geometric Analysis Seminar, Goethe Universität Frankfurt — Germany, November 2018 -
Metric projective geometries and projective compactification
Differential Geometry, Lie Theory, and Low-Dimensional Topology — La Trobe University, Melbourne, December 2016