Jesse

Jesse Kass

Jesse Leo Kass

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

Office: 4835

Phone: (734) 764-6495

Email: lastname (at) math.harvard.edu

I am an RTG Assistant Professor in mathematics at the University of Michigan. I work in algebraic geometry. My current work focuses on abelian varieties, compactified Jacobians, moduli of sheaves, and related topics. My notes (located under "Writing") provide a reasonable overview of my mathematical interests.

During college, I worked at the Ross Mathematics Program at the Ohio State University for several summers. The program is an eight week long residential program for high school students. I highly recommend the program! It is an excellent experience for talented students interested in mathematics.

Job Application

I am no longer applying for jobs as I have accepted a position at the University of South Carolina. If you are curious, my application materials were:

Teaching

I am currently teaching Math 590. The course website can be found on cTools.

Are you thinking of asking me for a letter of recommendation? Check out these pages for guidelines to making a request: Conrad, Pollack, Roby.

Previously at Michigan I taught Math 115, 116, 316, 425, and 731 (Topics on Riemann Surfaces). As a graduate student, I had the honor of being a course assistant for the 7th most ridiculous-sounding math class offered at a liberal-arts college. The movie trailer for the class can be found here.

Students who have attended my classes have gone to have successful careers in law, medicine, science, and professional football.

Events

These conferences that I attended recently or will be attending soon.

  • MAGIC 2010, April 23-25.
  • Frobenius Splitting, May 17-22.
  • School on Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces, June 1-11.
  • Course on Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces, June 12-18.
  • 10th ALGA Meeting, July 5-9.
  • Components of Hilbert Schemes, July 19-23.
  • Compact Moduli and Vector Bundles, Oct 21-24.
  • 2011 Joint Math Meetings, Jan 6-9.
  • Moduli spaces and moduli stacks , May 23-27.
  • A Celebration of Algebraic Geometry, August 25-28.
  • AGNES 2011, Oct 29-30.
  • Derived Algebraic Geometry RTG Workshop , May 17-19.
  • Georgia Algebriac Geometry Symposium, May 21-June 1.
  • Algebraic and Complex Geometry, Sept 10-Sept 14.