Pain, pain, go away, come back another day.
I just wanna get one up on life before it kills me.
Ben Barlow, Where do we go when we go

Kenneth Blakey
MIT Room 2-390F
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Email: kblakey [at] mit [dot] edu

I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate in math at MIT, advised by Paul Seidel, supported by an NSF-GRFP.

Here is my CV.

Here is my final project for 18.917 Topics in Algebraic Topology. Here is a list of open problems in Floer homotopy theory, recently discussed at the Homotopy theory and Floer homology conference at IML, which was kindly scribed by Noah Porcelli.

In Summer 2024 I organized a reading seminar on Floer homotopy. In Summer 2025-2026 I am a co-organizer of Kylerec. I am a mentor for GUMMI and PRIMES.

I like to climb. When I was younger, I liked to skateboard.

Research

  1. Ample divisor complements, Floer spectra, and relative Gromov-Witten theory, arXiv:2601.08506
  2. Parameterized Lagrangian Floer homotopy, arXiv:2506.20122, with C.M. Bonciocat, submitted
  3. Floer homotopy theory and degenerate Lagrangian intersections, arXiv:2410.11478, submitted
Earlier undergraduate research
  1. Augmentation varieties and disk potentials III, arXiv:2401.13024, with S. Chanda, Y. Sun, C.T. Woodward
  2. Augmentation varieties and disk potentials II, arXiv:2401.13021, with S. Chanda, Y. Sun, C.T. Woodward
  3. Augmentation varieties and disk potentials I, arXiv:2310.17821, with S. Chanda, Y. Sun, C.T. Woodward, submitted
  4. Stable Morse flow trees, arXiv:2207.00653

Other writings (caveat lector)

Talk notes (caveat auditor)

  • Applications of Floer homotopy theory to degenerate Lagrangian intersections, Institut Mittag-Leffler (notes, video)
  • Bounding Lagrangian intersections using Floer homotopy theory, symplectic zoominar (slides, video)

2026 Travel

2025 Travel