Sylvain Carpentier

BK21 Postdoctoral Fellow
Seoul National University

Integrable Systems · Mathematical Physics · Algebra

I am currently a BK21 Postdoctoral Fellow at Seoul National University. Previously, I was a Simons Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Mathematics Department of Columbia University. I received my PhD from MIT in 2017 under the supervision of Victor Kac .

My research is in mathematical physics, with a focus on integrable systems and their underlying algebraic structures. I am particularly interested in Lax operators, W-algebras, Hamiltonian structures, and quantization of integrable systems.

News

July 2026
New preprint: Integrable Volterra hierarchies over nonabelian algebras with J.P. Wang and A.V. Mikhailov.

June 2026
New preprint: Arithmetic supports of Lax difference hierarchies .

Beyond Mathematics

An interview with the Simons Society of Fellows discussing my research and the connections between mathematics, creativity, and music can be found here .