Deniz Genlik's Math Page

I am Deniz Genlik, a J. L. Doob Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This is a postdoctoral position named after Joseph Leo Doob. My postdoctoral mentor is Felix Janda.

My research area is algebraic geometry, and my research interests are accumulated around Gromov-Witten theory. Mostly, I have been thinking about Gromov-Witten invariants, mirror symmetry, crepant resolutions, holomorphic anomaly equations, Hilbert schemes of points, and certain tools to study these. Recently, I also started to be interested in combinatorial-geometric aspects of moduli spaces of curves, Newton-Okounkov bodies and their implications in optimization.

Before coming to UIUC, I completed my Ph.D. at the Ohio State University under the supervision of Hsian-Hua Tseng. Before that, I completed my M.Sc. thesis under the supervision of Sergey Finashin at Middle East Technical University.

If you would like more details, you can have a look at my CV.

I am a co-organizer of

UIUC Algebraic Geometry Seminar, co-organizing with Sheldon Katz,
UIUC Algebraic Geometry Preprint Seminar, co-organizing with Lena Ji.

I also co-organized the following workshops:

Workshop on Tevelev Degrees and Related Topics, co-organized with Felix Janda,
Workshop on Combinatorics and Geometry of Moduli of Curves, co-organized with Ian Cavey and Felix Janda.

I was the faculty mentor two IML (Illinois Mathematics Lab) research projects with undergraduate students in Spring 2025 and Spring 2026. Here is the poster of my group from Spring 2025.

Here, you can learn more about my research.

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