Ryan C. Gelnett

PhD Candidate & Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University at Albany, SUNY
📍 Office: HD 268, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222
📧 Email: rgelnett at albany dot edu

📄 Curriculum Vitae

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🎓 Background

I am currently a PhD candidate in mathematics at the University at Albany (SUNY), where I also serve as a Graduate Teaching Assistant.
I received my Bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Oswego.
I grew up in Cleveland, New York, on the shores of Oneida Lake.

📑 Research Materials

• Conference Postcard
• Conf_n(S¹,X) Slides

📚 Publications

Preprints

To appear

• On spaces of embeddings of circles in surfaces
  Michigan Math. J. arXiv:2601.12450 (31 pages, 8 figures)

Published

• Configuration spaces of circles in the plane (with Justin Curry and Matthew Zaremsky)
  J. Homotopy Relat. Struct. Vol. 21 (2026), no. 2, 277–305 arXiv:2411.04800 (28 pages, 13 figures)