Francesco Lin Contact information Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02139 Email Address: linf [at] math.mit.edu Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) Ph.D. Candidate in Pure Mathematics. Advisor: Tomasz Mrowka 09/2012 - 06/2016 (expected) University of Oxford (UK) Exchange scholar at the Mathematical Institute. Supervisor: Christopher L. Douglas 10/2011 - 06/2012 Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy) Student in the Classe di Scienze. 10/2007 - 06/2012 Universit` a di Pisa (Italy) M. Sc. (Laurea Magistrale) in Mathematics. Advisor: Riccardo Benedetti 09/2010 - 06/2012 Universit` a di Pisa (Italy) B. Sc. (Laurea Triennale) in Mathematics. Advisor: Bruno Martelli 09/2007 - 06/2010 Research Interests Gauge theory, Floer homology and their relations with low dimensional topology and contact and symplectic geometry. Fellowships and honors MIT Praecis Presidential Fellowship St. John’s College (Oxford) - Scuola Normale Superiore exchange scholarship Italian Mathematical Olympiad: Gold medalist Italian Olympiad in Informatics: Bronze medalist Papers Morse-Bott singularities in monopole Floer homology and the Triangulation conjecture. Preprint available at arXiv:1404.4561. 2012-2013 2011-2012 2007 2007 Exact Lagrangian caps of Legendrian knots. Submitted. Preprint available at arXiv:1309.5101. Schools and conferences attended Mathematical Congress of the Americas 2013 - Guanajuato (Mexico) 08/2013 S´eminaires de Math´ematiques Sup´erieures 2013 - Universit´e de Montreal (Canada) 07/2013 CAST Summer School 2012 - Renyi Institute (Hungary) 07/2012 Topology of Manifolds - Renyi Institute (Hungary) 08/2011 Gran Sasso-Princeton Summer School in Modern Physics - Princeton University (USA) 08/2006 Teaching experiences Grader for 18.101 (Analysis and Manifolds) and 18.745 (Introduction to Lie Algebras) Fall 2013 Languages Italian - Native English - Very Fluent Mandarin Chinese - Basic French - Basic