Jo Nelson
Graduate Student
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Department of Mathematics
822 Van Vleck Hall
480 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706
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Jo NelsonGraduate Student University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Mathematics 822 Van Vleck Hall 480 Lincoln Drive Madison, WI 53706 |
I'm at MIT for the Spring 2012 semester. You can find me in 2-130.
about me: I'm a graduate student and teaching
assistant
in the
mathematics department at
UW
Madison. My research involves the interactions between
symplectic, contact and complex geometry, and my advisor is Mohammed Abouzaid. I'm
currently
working on
computing cylindrical contact homology for links of
simple singularities and figuring out when one can
boldly claim that this is indeed a well-defined homology theory for my
thesis.
Before my 'life'
as a graduate
student I spent a year
as a foreign exchange student at the Technische Universität Berlin. I
earned
my bachelors degree in mathematics and minored in German
at
the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. A long time ago I went to the Illinois
Mathematics and
Science
Academy. Among
other things I enjoy the color purple, knitting,
speaking german (poorly at this point), vegetarian food, and travelling. I am running the
Women in Mathematics
at Wisconsin group this year. See my cats do
manifolds!