Malavika Mukundan


I am a postdoc in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University working in dynamical systems.

Here is my CV.

Contact information

Office:
CDS 307
Email:
mmukunda (at) bu (dot) edu
Mailing address: Boston University
665 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215

Papers

Candidate Moderation under Instant Runoff and Condorcet Voting: Evidence from the Cooperative Election Study (joint with McCune, Jones, Schultz, Graham-Squire, Volic, See, Xiao); arXiv

VoteKit: A Python package for computational social choice research (joint with Donnay, Duchin, Gibson, Glaser, Hong, Wang); Journal of Open Source Software 10(109), 2025; JOSS

Dynamical approximations of postsingularly finite entire maps (joint with Prochorov, Reinke), Accepted at Transactions of the AMS; arXiv

A cell decomposition for marked cycle curves (joint with Davis, Stoll and Tiozzo), Submitted; arXiv

Embedding unicritical connectedness loci, Conform. Geom. Dyn. 28 (2024), 131-164, doi.org/10.1090/ecgd/389

A solution to the degree-d twisted rabbit problem (joint with Winarski), Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems. Published online 2025:1-16. doi:10.1017/etds.2025.137

Dynamical approximation of postsingularly finite exponentials, arXiv


Teaching

I will be teaching MA 871 (Dynamical systems, graduate seminar style) in Fall 2026. The course will be an introduction to arithmetic dynamics. I will also be offering a reading course for one student in Spring 2026. Interested students may reach out via email!