Sam Freedman

Sam Freedman

Office: Room 318, Eckhart Hall
Email: sfreedman67 [at] uchicago [dot] edu

I am an L.E. Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago.
I completed my Ph.D. at Brown University under Jeremy Kahn.
My research is in translation surfaces, Veech groups, and Teichmüller dynamics.

CV   Research Statement   Teaching Statement

Papers

  1. Veech fibrations. (With Trent Lucas.) Preprint.

  2. There are no Teichmüller curves in Prym(2, 2). (With Julian Boulanger.) Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 362 (2024). Code.

  3. Periodic Points of Prym Eigenforms. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2024, 20: 155-181.

  4. Computing Periodic Points on Veech Surfaces. (With Zawad Chowdhury, Samuel Everett, and Destine Lee) Geom Dedicata 217, 66 (2023). Code.

  5. Automorphisms of tropical Hassett spaces. (With Siddarth Kannan and Joseph Hlavinka.) Port. Math. 79 (2022).

Teaching

University of Chicago:

  1. Autumn 2024: Math 161, Honors Calculus 1.

Brown University:

  1. Spring 2024: Math 520, Linear Algebra.
  2. Fall 2023: Math 200, Multivariable Calculus (Physics/Engineering)
  3. Spring 2023: Math 520, Linear Algebra
  4. Fall 2022: Math 200, Multivariable Calculus (Physics/Engineering)
  5. Fall 2021: Math 190, Advanced Placement Calculus (Physics/Engineering)
  6. Summer 2021: Math 520, Linear Algebra
  7. Spring 2021: Introductory Calculus, Part 2
  8. Spring 2020: Math 90, Introductory Calculus, Part 1