I am a PostDoc at the Physics & Astronomy department at UCLA supervised by Ryan Thorngren. Before that, I was a graduate student at Rutgers advised by Greg Moore. I am a mathematical physicist interested in quantum many-body physics and quantum information.
Here is my CV and Google Scholar
Recent talks:
"Paths to and from Quantum Cellular Automata" at Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, Oct 15, 2025 (video, slides)
"Invertible stabilizer phases", at Quantum field theory and topological phases via homotopy theory and operator algebras at Harvard, July 11, 2025 (video, slides)
Upcoming projects:
A Classification of Quantum Cellular Automata, with Georgii Shuklin
On Lattice Anomalies, with S, Czajka and R. Thorngren
A categorical Triality: Matrix Product Factors, Positive Maps, and von Neumann Bimodules with T. Mainiero and G. W. Moore (draft available upon request).
Preprints:
An Algebraic Theory of Gapped Domain Wall Partons, M. Buican, R. Geiko, M. Moses, B. Shi cond-mat.str-el/2506.22544
Parametrized topological phases in 1d and T-duality, R. Geiko, math-ph/2412.209095
List of Publications:
Homotopy Classification of loops of Clifford unitaries, R. Geiko and Y. Hu (2024), Communications in Mathematical Physics, PDF, Recording of a talk CMSA
When does three-dimensional Chern-Simons theory admits a time-reversal symmetry?, R. Geiko and G. W. Moore (2022), Annales Henri Poincaré, hep-th/2209.04519
Dyson's classification and real division superalgebras, R. Geiko and G. W. Moore, JHEP 299 (2021), hep-th/2010.01675
c-Recursion for multi-point conformal blocks. NS sector, V. Belavin and R. Geiko, JHEP 112 (2019), hep-th/1806.09563
Geodesic description of heavy-light Virasoro blocks, V. Belavin and R. Geiko, JHEP 8 (2018), hep-th/1705.10950
Various semiclassical limits of torus conformal blocks, K. Alkalaev, R. Geiko, V. Rappoport, JHEP 4 (2017), hep-th/1612.05891