Felix Janda

Postdoc at University of Michigan (Host: Yongbin Ruan)
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PhD thesis (under R. Pandharipande at ETH Zürich)

Contact information

Felix Janda
Department of Mathematics
University of Michigan
530 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
USA

Email: janda@umich.edu
Office: 1833

Activities

RTG Workshop on Witten's r-spin class and related topics

Research

My general research area is moduli spaces in algebraic geometry. I study aspects of the intersection theory of various Gromov-Witten type moduli spaces. During my PhD, my main focus has been on the study of tautological classes on the moduli space of curves.

Publications/Preprints

"Powers of the theta divisor and relations in the tautological ring" (with Emily Clader, Samuel Grushevsky and Dmitry Zakharov) , arXiv:1605.05425
"Pixton's double ramification cycle relations" (with Emily Clader) , arXiv:1601.02871
"Relations on $\overline M_{g,n}$ via equivariant Gromov-Witten theory of $\mathbb P^1$" submitted, arXiv:1509.08421
"Relations in the Tautological Ring and Frobenius Manifolds near the Discriminant " part of thesis, submitted, arXiv:1505.03419
"The hypergeometric functions of the Faber-Zagier and Pixton relations" (with Alexandr Buryak and Rahul Pandharipande) to appear in the Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly special volume dedicated to Prof. Eduard Looijenga, arXiv:1502.05150
"Comparing tautological relations from the equivariant Gromov-Witten theory of projective spaces and spin structures" part of thesis, not submitted, arXiv:1407.4778
"Gromov-Witten theory of target curves and the tautological ring" , arXiv:1308.6182
"Tautological relations in moduli spaces of weighted pointed curves" part of thesis, not submitted, arXiv:1306.6580
"Socle pairings on tautological rings" (with Aaron Pixton) , arXiv:1304.0026
"Gaussian rational points on a singular cubic surface" (with Ulrich Derenthal) in "Torsors, étale homotopy and applications to rational points", LMS Lecture Notes, Cambridge University Press, arXiv:1105.2807