Caelan Ritter

My name is Caelan Ritter, and I am entering the Department of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University this fall as a Postdoctoral Scholar. I received my Ph.D. in 2026 at the University of Washington under Farbod Shokrieh. I am interested broadly in algebraic and tropical geometry, with a focus on the intersection theory of tropical abelian varieties.

For the moment, you can reach me by email at critter1@uw.edu; I have an OpenPGP key.

Research

• The Ceresa period from tropical homology.
  Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, Volume 13, 2025, e112, arXiv, accepted version, BibTeXcopied!.
• Prym–Brill–Noether loci of special curves (with Steven Creech, Yoav Len, and Derek Wu).
  International Mathematics Research Notices, Volume 2022, Issue 4, February 2022, Pages 2688–2728, arXiv, accepted version, BibTeXcopied!.

Teaching

• Fall 2026: Math 3800, Theory of Numbers
• Spring 2024: Math 224, Advanced Multivariable Calculus