research

My research is in geometric group theory, an area of mathematics devoted to studying groups as geometric objects in order to solve algebraic and algorithmic problems, as well as problems in other fields. For example, geometric group theory was used by Agol and Wise to solve Thurston’s virtual Haken conjecture, a major open problem in low-dimensional topology, and by Sela to solve the famed Tarski conjecture in first-order logic.

The methods of geometric group theory have also had extraordinary success outside of mathematics, with Carlsson’s development of persistent homology in topological data analysis, Ghrist’s applications of braid groups in robotics, and recent exciting applications of graph braid groups in topological quantum computing by Maciazek et al.

My research focuses on non-positive curvature in groups. I am especially interested in graph braid groups, as well as hierarchical hyperbolicity, which is a tool to study groups from a geometric point of view by exploiting patterns of hyperbolic behaviour occurring within them. My latest research includes studying random quotients of hierarchically hyperbolic groups and using cube complexes to study non-positive curvature in graph braid groups. I have also written code to implement algorithms detailed in my paper on graph braid groups. For example, I have written a program that computes free splittings of graph braid groups and, joint with Tomasz Maciazek, a program that computes presentations of graph braid groups.

A copy of my research statement is available here.

2023

  1. Graph of groups decompositions of graph braid groups
    Daniel Berlyne
    International Journal of Algebra and Computation, 2023
  2. Random quotients of hierarchically hyperbolic groups
    Carolyn AbbottDaniel BerlyneThomas Ng, and Alexander Rasmussen
    In preparation, 2023

2022

  1. Hierarchical hyperbolicity of graph products
    Daniel Berlyne, and Jacob Russell
    Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, 2022

2021

  1. Appendix to “Largest acylindrical actions and stability in hierarchically hyperbolic groups”
    Daniel Berlyne, and Jacob Russell
    Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Series B, 2021
    Primary article by C. Abbott, J. Behrstock, and M. G. Durham
  2. Hierarchical hyperbolicity of graph products and graph braid groups
    Daniel Berlyne
    CUNY Academic Works, 2021
    Ph.D. thesis, City University of New York

2015

  1. Teichmüller’s theorem and its applications
    Daniel Berlyne
    University of Warwick, 2015
    Master’s thesis

2014

  1. Ideal Theory in Rings (Translation of “Idealtheorie in Ringbereichen” by Emmy Noether)
    Daniel Berlyne
    arXiv, 2014