Arun Soor’s Webpage

Since August 2025 I am Donald J. Lewis Research Postdoctoral Assistant Professor at U. Michigan.

Previously (2021-2025) I was a DPhil student at U. Oxford supervised by Prof. Konstantin Ardakov.

You can find my CV here. (Last updated July 2025).

Thesis

Here is my DPhil thesis.

Preprints

• A. Soor. A six-functor formalism for quasi-coherent sheaves and crystals on rigid-analytic varieties, 2024. arXiv:2409.07592.

• A. Soor. Quasicoherent sheaves for dagger analytic geometry, 2023. To appear in Israel J. Math. arXiv:2311.03101.

Publications

• T. Assiotis, B. Bedert, M. A. Gunes, and A. Soor. Moments of generalized Cauchy random matrices and continuous-Hahn polynomials. Nonlinearity, 34(7):4923–4943, 2021. arXiv:2009.04752.

• T. Assiotis, B. Bedert, M. A. Gunes, and A. Soor. On a distinguished family of random variables and Painlevé equations. Probability and Mathematical Physics, 2:613–642, 2022. arXiv:2009.04760.

• T. Assiotis, M. A. Gunes, and A. Soor. Convergence and an explicit formula for the joint moments of the circular Jacobi β-ensemble characteristic polynomial. Mathematical Physics Analysis and Geometry, 2021. arXiv:2110.05406.

• P. Velvaluri, A. Soor, P. Plucinsky, R. Lima de Miranda, R. D. James, and E. Quandt. Origami-inspired thin-film shape memory alloy devices. Scientific Reports, 11(1):10988, 2021.

News Articles

• H. Liu, P. Plucinsky, F. Feng, A. Soor, and R. D. James. Origami and the structure of materials. SIAM news January/February 2022.

Seminars

• In the academic year 2024-2025, I am co-organizing the Oxford Junior Number Theory Seminar, together with Kate Thomas.

Miscellaneous writings

Barr–Beck–Lurie in Families

Talks, inc. study group talks (use notes at your own risk).

• U. Wuppertal Seminar Darstellungstheorie, (July 2025).

• ETHZ-UZh-Sbg Arithmetic and Geometry Research Group Alpbach 2025 workshop (June 2025).

• “Stacky interpretation of D-cap modules”. Algebra seminar, Oxford, (May 2025).

• U. Michigan GLNT seminar (March 2025)

• UT Austin Geometry seminar (March 2025),

• “Gal(\bar{Q}_p/Q_p) as a geometric fundamental group. p-adic geometry study group, Oxford, (March 2025). Notes

• “Six-functor formalisms and derived geometry”. Warwick Junior Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Warwick (January 2025).

• “A six-functor formalism for quasi-coherent sheaves and crystals on rigid-analytic varieties”. Beijing Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA) Algebraic Geometry seminar, Beijing (online), (January 2025). Slides

• “What is a six-functor formalism and how do we construct one?” Hodge Club, Edinburgh Hodge Institute (November 2024).

• “Hodge Structures and Shimura varieties”. Shimura varieties study group, Oxford (November 2024).

• “A six−functor formalism for analytic $𝒟$−modules on rigid−analytic varieties”. Seminario de Geometría No Conmutativa del Atlántico Sur, Universidad de Buenos Aires, (June 2024). Video.

• ”(\varphi, \Gamma)-modules”. Montreal functor study group, Oxford (March 2024). Notes.

• “Galois representation associated to a weight 2 modular form”. Global reciprocity study group, Oxford (March 2024). Notes.

• “Some perspectives on differential operators”. Geometric Langlands study group, Oxford (May 2023). Notes.

• “Localisation of locally analytic representations”. Oxford junior algebra (February 2023).

• “Period morphism and tower”. Rapoport-Zink spaces study group, Oxford (February 2023).

• “Divisors on Y/φ^ℤ”. Fargues-Fontaine curve study group, Oxford (November 2022).

• “Eichler-Shimura isomorphism”. Galois representations and modularity reading group, Oxford (November 2022). Notes.

• I gave a series of talks about locally analytic vectors of completed cohomology from May-June 2022.

• “Joint moments of characteristic polynomials of random unitary matrices”, Oxford junior number theory (March 2022). Slides.

• “Weil groups, Weil-Deligne representations and class field theory”. Langlands reading group, Oxford (February 2022).

• “Hodge-Tate representations”. p-adic Hodge theory reading group, Oxford (February 2022).

• “Origami with conformal and helical symmetry”, a 20-minute talk I gave at the SIAM MS21 conference (May 2021). Slides.

Teaching

Lecturer II, Magdalen college

• HT25: College tutorials (Magdalen) for A5 Topology, Prelims Dynamics.
• MT24: College tutorials (Magdalen) for A2 Metric Spaces & Complex Analysis, Prelims Geometry.
• TT24: College tutorials (Magdalen) for Prelims Constructive Mathematics.
• HT24: College tutorials (Magdalen) for A5 Topology, Prelims Dynamics. Tutor for C2.6 Introduction to Schemes.
• MT24: College tutorials (Magdalen) for A2 Metric Spaces & Complex Analysis, Prelims Geometry
• TT23: College tutorials (Magdalen) for ASO Group theory, ASO Multidimensional Analysis, Prelims Constructive Mathematics
• HT23: College tutorials (Magdalen) for A5 Topology, Prelims Dynamics. Tutor for C2.6 Introduction to Schemes.
• MT22: College tutorials (Magdalen) for A2 Metric spaces & Complex analysis. TA for C3.6 Modular Forms, TA for B3.1 Galois Theory.
• TT22: College tutorials (Magdalen) for ASO number theory, revision classes for A2 Metric Spaces & Complex Analysis
• HT22: TA for B3.4 Algebraic Number Theory.
• MT21: TA for B2.1 Introduction to Representation Theory.

Conferences attended

• The Automorphic Side of the p-adic Langlands Programme 31 July 2023-4 August 2023, Wuppertal, Germany.
• Number theory meets p-adic representations, A conference on the occasion of Peter Schneider’s 70th birthday, 13-17 February 2023, Münster, Germany.
• Topology and Arithmetic around the Langlands Programme, 7-11 June 2022, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Arizona Winter School 2022, Automorphic forms beyond GL_2, 5-9 March 2022, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

Experience

• From 2020-2021 I was the president of the Invariants, Oxford’s student maths society.

Miscellaneous

Origami: Lion, Collie, Spiral.