{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:12:30","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\"><div class=\"container px-0\"><div class=\"row align-items-start\"><div class=\"col-12\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/files\/alhambra-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/files\/alhambra-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-254\" style=\"width:252px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/files\/alhambra-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/files\/alhambra-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/files\/alhambra-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/files\/alhambra-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/files\/alhambra-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/files\/alhambra-414x552.jpg 414w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/files\/alhambra-940x1253.jpg 940w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/files\/alhambra-1440x1920.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am a third-year graduate student and teaching assistant from the state of Delaware. My current research is concerned with the relationship between dynamics and geometry on manifolds, particularly possible connections between properties of the geodesic flow and L^2-Betti number bounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Outside of mathematics, I enjoy running, swimming, biking, and playing tennis. I also spend my free time reading books and learning languages. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest\/Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Riemannian Geometry, Geometric Analysis, Geometric Topology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">M.S. in Mathematics &#8211; University of Florida, Spring 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">B.S. in Mathematics &#8211; University of Florida, Spring 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">B.A. in Physics &#8211; University of Florida, Spring 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email: shuteerik@ufl.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Office: LIT 431<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Office Hours: Tuesday Period 6 (12:50pm &#8211; 1:40pm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and Wednesday Period 5 (11:45am &#8211; 12:35pam)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/erik-shute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}