Hello

Hi! My name is Yan Yau (not Yan).

I am currently a third year PhD student in Algebraic Number Theory at the University of Edinburgh working with Professor Minhyong Kim. I did my undergraduate and masters at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.

My work focuses on Arithmetic Topology, which is the study of Number Theory motivated through the perspective of viewing the embedding of a knot in a 3-manifold as being analogous to the embedding of a prime in the spectrum of a number ring. I am currently thinking about questions related to arithmetic analogues of linking phenomena. You can find out more about what I do here.

During the 2023-2024 academic year, I was an organiser of the Hodge Club seminars along with Danil Kozevnikov and Tuan Pham.

I can be contacted through email at yanyau.cheng(at)ed.ac.uk.