About me

I am a researcher and work as an advanced fellow (a 5-year non-tenure-track position) at the ETH-ITS in Zürich. My field of research is mathematical physics.

Much of my research explores the interplay between moduli spaces and quantum field theory. Moduli spaces are pivotal objects in mathematics, while quantum field theory is the language of physics at the elementary particle level. I am fascinated by the connections between these two domains due to their foundational significance in their corresponding fields.

This article in Quanta Magazine gives a popular scientific account of parts of my research.

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Contact

michael.borinsky@eth-its.ethz.ch


Upcoming events


Publications

PhD and MSc student contributions are marked with grad.

Preprints

Journal articles

Proceedings

Other


Supervision of MSc and BSc theses

Feel free to contact me if you are a MSc or BSc student (preferably at the ETH or the University Zurich) and interested in a thesis project along the lines of my research.


Invited talks

2023/2024

  • A panorama of moduli spaces, Frankfurt - Germany, 28 February flag flag-de

    Talk on 'On the top-weight cohomology of the moduli space of curves' (video)

  • Perimeter Institute Colloquium, Waterloo - Canada, 20 February flag flag-ca

    Talk on 'Algebraic geometry at the limits of perturbative QFT and dark matter in moduli spaces' (video)

  • Particle Physics Seminar, Torino - Italy, 22 November flag flag-it

    Talk on 'Tropical Feynman integration'

  • Purdue Topology Seminar, Lafayette - US, 15 November flag flag-us

    Talk 'On the top-weight cohomology of the moduli space of curves' (online)

  • IAS HEP Seminar, Princeton - US, 6 October flag flag-us

    Talk on 'The Dark-Matter Problem of the Moduli Space of Curves and its (partial) Tropical Solution' (video)

2022/2023

2021/2022

2020/2021

2019/2020

2018/2019

2017/2018

2016/2017

2015/2016

2014/2015

2013/2014

2012/2013