I started my PhD studies at Aalto University in autumn 2024 after
graduating from Imperial College London. I got interested in
algebraic geometry
during my undergraduate studies at Imperial, because
it bridges together so many important fields of pure mathematics,
such as topology, complex analysis, ring theory and Galois theory.
What I find the most exciting is the way how visual intuition can be
applied in, say, elementary number theory questions.
If you want to have a chat in person, you can find me in room M330b.
My main research interests lie in deformation theory and moduli theory and birational geometry. I am currently trying to understand ways of combining methods from these fields to study the birational geometry of certain schemes. Also, I have always been a big category theory fan.
This site is hosting all my publicly available writings and a blog,
where I log my progress through the PhD and write down small bits of
information I find worth sharing.
I have written the page in pure HTML, CSS and JavaScript
and I used Figma for prototyping the UI.
The blog is generated from MarkDown files using a generator written
in Haskell and based on the Pandoc library.
My aim was to make the site fully functional without any scripts.
The scripts are there only for performance improvements, animations
and the tag filter in the blog section.
When I am not doing mathematics, I am either spending time with my wife, or probably playing or listening to classical music, or programming something. I also go bouldering every once in a while. I take great interest in Christian theology, so I study the Bible daily, and I am currently learning Ancient Greek to better understand the New Testament.
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math.aalto.fi/~miika.rankaviita
that are also published on GitHub are published under
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the content, which is not published on GitHub under
a more permissive license.