Quoc Anh Tran

You might know me as Anh Tran. I am a fifth-year PhD student working with Ben Bakker. I will be on the job market this Fall 2026.

My broad interest is Algebraic Geometry. My research so far has been on application of nonabelian Hodge theory, as well as extending known projective results to the quasi-projective setting. Some other topics I have spent time on are Hodge-theoretic moduli spaces, and positivity coming from Hodge theory.
Here is my CV (Sep 2026).

Some seminars/reading groups I (co-)organized at UIC.

Contacts

Office:
Email: quocanh (at) uchicago (dot) edu

Papers

• On the nilpotent residue non-abelian Hodge correspondence for higher-dimensional quasiprojective varieties
  submitted (pdf, arXiv)


• Perverse Euler Characteristics of Hermitian Locally Symmetric Spaces
  with Mert Akdenizli, preprint (pdf, arXiv)


• The nonabelian Hodge correspondence for extensions on quasiprojective curves
  in preparation

Notes

• Smooth degeneration of projective space.

Below are some informal notes made for talks. Any originality lies in errors!

• Introduction to Mumford-Tate group.
• Generic Torelli for hypersurfaces. Based on Voisin's volume 2.
• General curve of genus 6.
• Decompositions in derived categories. Based on Huybrechts' book.
• Deligne's finiteness theorem.
• Introduction to Intersection Cohomology.
• Hodge modules over curves.

Teaching

• Fall 2025 - Spring 2026: TA for MATH 160.
• Fall 2022 - Summer 2024, Spring 2025: TA for MATH 125.
• Fall 2024: TA for MATH 210 - Calculus 3.
• Rice University: TA for Honors Linear Algebra, Group Theory, Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry, Algorithms.