Hi, I’m John Cobb

I am a NSF postdoctoral fellow with Hal Schenck at Auburn University. I received my PhD from the mathematics department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 2024, where I was advised by both Daniel Erman and Michael Kemeny. From 2019 to 2022, I was supported by a DoD NDSEG Fellowship. Details are in my CV.

My research interests are primarily within algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. My work involves syzygies, toric varieties, defining equations of curves, and more recently, applications to algebraic statistics.

John Cobb
Semigroup Graded Stillman's Conjecture John Cobb, Nathaniel Gallup, John Spoerl. Journal of Algebra, 2025. Syzygies of Curves in Products of Projective Spaces John Cobb. Mathematische Zeitschrift, 2023.

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Latest News

  • I started a NSF postdoc at Auburn.
  • I graduated with a PhD in Mathematics from UW Madison.
  • I’ve passed my specialty exam.
  • A beer featuring art about algebraic geometry research that I helped design is now being sold in Madison. Check it out.
  • I began my first year in the Mathematics PhD program at UW Madison.

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Latest Travel

Apr 19–24, '26 Regularity in algebra, combinatorics, and geometry, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada
Jul 8–12, '25 2025 AG Summer Research Institute Bootcamp, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
May 12–30, '25 Program Visitor, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada
Apr 19–20, '25 Meeting on Applied Algebraic Geometry 2025, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Apr 14–18, '25 Macaulay2 Workshop, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Mar 8–9, '25 AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Dec 9–13, '24 Joint meeting of the NZMS, AustMS and AMS, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Nov 3–5, '24 Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA

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