After graduating from Imperial College London in 2024, I began my PhD studies at Aalto University under the supervision of Oscar Kivinen. During my undergraduate studies at Imperial, I got interested in algebraic geometry, as it bridges together so many important fields of pure mathematics, such as topology, commutative algebra, differential geometry and complex analysis. For me, the most exciting part is being able to utilise visual intuition to solve various kinds of problems with the help of the algebro-geometric machinery.
If you want to have a chat in person, you can find me in room M330b.
I am mainly intersted in deformations, moduli, and singularities. In addition, I have some background in birational geometry from my undergraduate studies. My current research is centred around studying versal deformation spaces of plane curve singularities and the relations to compactified Jacobians and Hilbert schemes.
This site is hosting all my publicly available writings and a blog,
where I 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 and animations.
When I am not doing mathematics, I spend time with my wife, listen to classical music, or work on my programming projects. 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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Some articles on my homepage math.aalto.fi/~miika.rankaviita that are also published on GitHub are available under the attached license, if there is one. All rights are reserved on the content, which is not published on GitHub under a more permissive license.