Commutative and Homological Algebra Market Presentations
showcasing early-career commutative algebraists
The main goal of CHAMPS is to give graduate students and other early career researchers on the academic job market a platform to showcase their research. CHAMPS started as a weekly virtual seminar in Fall 2020, created by Eloísa Grifo and Keri Sather-Wagstaff and based on an idea by Keri and Hugh Geller. In the first two years we had weekly seminars. Since Fall 2022, we profile early-career researchers on our website and release elevator pitch videos on our YouTube channel.
CHAMPs from previous years: 2025-2026 profiles, 2024-2025 profiles, 2023-2024 profiles, 2022-2023 profiles, 2021-2022, and 2020-2021.
All past videos can be found on our YouTube channel.
CHAMPs from previous years: 2025-2026 profiles, 2024-2025 profiles, 2023-2024 profiles, 2022-2023 profiles, 2021-2022, and 2020-2021.
All past videos can be found on our YouTube channel.
If you are an early-career researcher in commutative algebra or a related field and would like to be profiled at CHAMPS, please contact us.
Graduate students on the 2026/2027 academic job market: Dorian Kalir
Profiles of graduate students on the 2025-2026 academic job market
Dorian Kalir is a sixth-year graduate student at Syracuse University, advised by Josh Pollitz. His research uses homological, derived-categorical, and operadic methods to study algebraic structures on free resolutions and invariants of modules over local rings. In particular, he is interested in extending phenomena witnessed over complete intersection and Golod rings to more general rings and dg algebras. As an educator, he is passionate about creating welcoming and interactive classrooms and incorporates inquiry-based learning into his teaching. He has served as instructor of record for a variety of calculus courses, co-organized a weekly learning seminar for graduate students, and is excited to supervise an undergraduate directed reading program in Fall 26.