Mak Pehar

Hi there!

I'm Mak (they/them), a second year PhD student at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Martin Gallauer. Before that, I was at the University of Edinburgh, where I did my Bachelor's and Master's between 2020 and 2025.

Overall, my interests lie in the intersections between algebraic geometry and homotopy theory. Currently this entails a major interest in étale and equivariant homotopy theory, but I'm also interested in derived/spectral algebraic geometry, and various other relevant aspects of homotopy theory (chromatic & motivic for instance).

Feel free to get in touch with me at !

Writing

• Hochschild homology, differential forms, and S¹-equivariance (2025) - Master's thesis.

Teaching

• TA for MA4J8-15 Commutative Algebra IILink opens in a new window (Winter term 2026/27).

Seminars

• Organising a reading group on condensed mathematicsLink opens in a new window in the winter term of 2026/27;
• Co-organising the algebraic topology portion of the Junior Algebra seminarLink opens in a new window in summer term of 2025/26 and throughout 2026/27.

Travel

• 39th British Topology Meeting (October 1st - 2nd 2026), University of Oxford;

• Motivic Midlands (September 7th - September 11th 2026), University of Nottingham;

• Young Topologists Meeting (June 29th - July 3rd 2026), University of Copenhagen;

• Motives, equivariant topology, and tt-geometry (September 1st-5th 2025), University of Warwick.

Select talks & presentations

• Introductions, motivation, overview, reading seminar on condensd mathematics (October - December 2026);
• Geometries and locality, reading seminar on Higher Zariski Geometry (October - December 2025)