Jonathan Michala's Personal Website

Education

University of Southern California, Ph.D. Mathematics, Provost Fellow (Expected May 2025)

Duke University, B.S. Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude (May 2020), Minor in Computer Science

Research

Broad interests in applying Floer theoretic tools to symplectic and contact geometry. Currently studying symplectic field theory and its applications to embedding problems of toric manifolds via capacities.

Activities

• SFT Zoom Reading Group, Organizer (Fall 2023 - Spring 2024)
• Graduate Colloquium Speaker, University of Southern California (Fall 2023)
• Permutation Patterns Conference, Poster Presenter, Dijon, France (Summer 2023)

Publications

• Ben Gillen and Jonathan Michala. "Characterizing Rothe Diagrams", 2023. Preprint. arXiv:2303.11392.
• Wave-packet propagation in a finite topological insulator and the spectral localizer index, Involve, 2021.

Teaching

• Calculus III, Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California (Spring 2022)
• Calculus II, Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California (Fall 2021)