Hi, I’m John Cobb

I am an NSF postdoctoral fellow with Hal Schenck at Auburn University. During Spring 2027, I will be a long-term visitor at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics at Brown University for the program Metric Algebraic Geometry: Going Global. After that, I will be a senior fellow at the Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics at UCLA for the program Numerical Algebraic Geometry and Correlated Electrons.

My research interests are primarily within algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, as well as their applications to data science and physics. 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.

I am on the job market for positions beginning in Fall 2027.

John Cobb

Featured Publications

Inverse Eigenvalue Problems, Floquet Isospectrality and the Hilbert-Chow Morphism John Cobb, Matthew Faust, Andreas Kretschmer. Submitted, 2026. Weighted Syzygies of Pointed Curves Maya Banks, John Cobb, Mahrud Sayrafi. Submitted, 2026. 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. See the archived announcement.
  • I began my first year in the Mathematics PhD program at UW Madison.

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Latest Travel

May 3–7, '27 Computational and Applied Algebraic Geometry, Palazzone, Cortona, Italy
Mar 30–Jun 11, '27 Numerical Algebraic Geometry and Correlated Electrons, IPAM, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Feb 22–26, '27 Macaulay2 Workshop, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Feb 8–12, '27 Commutative Algebra, Representation Theory, and Other Interactions, SLMath, Berkeley, CA
Jan 20–Apr 23, '27 Semester Program in Metric AG, ICERM, Brown University, Providence, RI
Jan 12–15, '27 Joint Mathematics Meetings, Chicago, IL
Oct 30–Nov 1, '26 TX-LA SIAM Sectional Meeting, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Oct 11–16, '26 New Homological Methods in Toric Geometry, MFO, Oberwolfach, Germany

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