Mathematics · UL Lafayette

Omar Dennaoui

I study finite groups locally at a prime p, and the higher-categorical structures that encode them: partial groups, fusion systems, Segal conditions, and nerve theorems.

Omar Dennaoui dennaoui@louisiana.edu Maxim Doucet Hall 315 CV ↓
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Research

I'm a graduate student advised by Justin Lynd and Philip Hackney. My thesis has two connected threads:

Localities & higher Segal

The higher Segal degree of localities of symmetric and alternating groups at the prime 2.

Nerve theorems

Nerve theorems for higher categorical structures via monads, including cyclic multicategories.

More broadly, I think about fusion systems and their homotopy theory and homological algebra, and modular representation theory.

Articles

Contractibility of the orbit space of a saturated fusion system after Steinberg
with Jonathon Villareal · J. Algebra 677 (2025), 267–277

Talks

Higher Segal Conditions and Localities of Symmetric and Alternating Groups at the Prime 2
Representations of Finite Groups and Related Structures, UC Santa Cruz · Aug 2026
A Nerve Theorem for Cyclic Multicategories
International Category Theory Conference (CT26), Johns Hopkins · Jul 2026
Higher Segal Conditions and Localities of Symmetric and Alternating Groups at the Prime 2
Southern Regional Algebra Conference, Southeastern Louisiana · Mar 2026
Earlier talks on the orbit space of a fusion system (4)
SRAC & Lloyd Roeling Conference, UL Lafayette · Apr 2025
South Central Topology Conference IV, Texas A&M · Mar 2025
Zassenhaus Groups and Friends, Texas State · Oct 2023
South Central Topology Conference III, New Mexico State · [date]

Teaching

Math 109/109S · Pre-Calculus Algebra · Spring 2024
Math 105/105S · Applied College Algebra Fundamentals · Fall 2023, Fall 2024
Math 105 · Applied College Algebra · Spring 2023
Math 103/104 · Applied College Algebra Fundamentals · Fall 2022

Education

Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette · 2021–present
B.S. Mathematics with honors, University of Balamand, Lebanon · 2017–2020