Mura Yakerson
Welcome to my home page!
I am a CNRS researcher at IMJ-PRG, Sorbonne.
My background is in motivic homotopy theory,
which applies powerful methods of algebraic topology
to shed light on mysteries of algebraic geometry.
I did my PhD under supervision of Marc Levine
at the
Duisburg-Essen University.
And here is a story how my PhD program started: Jail-dreaming
"The more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
News
- I am posting a new video series "Math Empathy" which answers existential questions from students. Enjoy :)
- We will celebrate my advisor Marc
Levine during our conference at ETH Zurich in January. See you there!
- I am co-organizing special semester on motivic homotopy theory in MSRI in the fall 2026!
- New paper: rethinking spherical Witt vectors with Thomas Nikolaus! Feedback
welcome.
- Recently I gave a talk "In search for math-life balance" on the Postdoc symposium in Birmingham University,
where I shared some reflections on the psychological struggles of doing math.
I also gave a talk "Don Juan and the Love to Algebraic Geometry" at the event "Beyond the Pipeline" in Oxford,
where I talked about my way into math research.
I would be happy to give more of such kind of talks!
- I made a series of videos, "K-theory Wonderland", which were a contribution to popularizing abstract math:
here is the first math video, and here is a masterpiece made by Jeremiah Heller.
Feedback is very welcome!