Thomas Murff is a 2023 Vassar College graduate with a BA in Mathematics. Although struggling with basic math growing up, physics kindled an interest in the subject during his freshman year of college. He began to spend lots of independent study hours on two open problems in pure mathematics (Rota’s basis conjecture and the finite lattice representation problem), which led to a deep interest and the development of extensive skills in several areas. Some of his favorite topics are Stone-type dualities, Galois connections, and Boolean hypercubes. His current interests are in the emergent pockets of algebraic symmetry within spatial hypergraphs and the potential physics that arises from them. Apart from work, Thomas loves music (Scriabin, Michael Brecker, and Future are his current favorites) and spending time with friends.
