Hi, I’m John Cobb

I’m a third year graduate student in the mathematics department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am supported by a DoD NDSEG Fellowship and am a current WISCIENCE Public Service Fellow. My current research interests lie somewhere in the intersection of homological algebra and algebraic geometry. In 2019, I received my B.S. from the Honors College of Charleston, where I was advised by Alex Kasman and Amy Langville. Details are in my CV.

John Cobb
Directed Reading Program

The DRP is a math mentoring program that pairs undergraduate students with graduate student mentors, for a semester-long independent study project.

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The Rising Sea

The Red Rising Sea is a set of notes by Ravi Vakil. This page organizes the Summer 2021 reading schedule.

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Quarternion-Valued Breather Soliton, Rational, and Periodic QKdV Solutions John Cobb, Alex Kasman, Albert Serna, Monique Sparkman. Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics, 2020. Aggregate Dispersions to Enhance the Intrachain Order in Surfactant-Stabilized Aqueous Colloids of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) McKenna Andrews, Anna Smirnova, Devin Sharp, Sarah Taylor, John Cobb, David Boucher. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2019.

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News

  • A beer featuring art about algebraic geometry research is now being sold in Madison. Check it out.
  • I began my first year in the Mathematics PhD program at UW Madison.
  • The College Today published an article on the Scott Ward Award.
  • I won a DoD NDSEG Fellowship.
  • The College Today published an article on the Quaternionic Soliton project.
  • I won a Goldwater Scholarship.

Travel

Jul 27–31, '20 WARTHOG 2020 (Infinite-dimensional methods in commutative algebra), University of Oregon
Apr 18–19, '20 CA+ Conference, Ames, IA
Jan 16–19, '19 Joint Mathematical Meetings, Baltimore, MA