My Students
John Baez
May 25, 2019
Here's a picture of my grad students as of the summer of 2004.
From left to right they are:
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Derek Wise, who
wrote about p-form electromagnetism
on discrete spacetimes, exotic statistics for
strings, and MacDowell-Mansouri gravity and
Cartan geometry. While a student here he created beautiful notes
for our Quantum Gravity Seminar, from Fall
2003 to Spring 2007. In the
spring of 2007 he finished his thesis and went on to a postdoc at
U. C. Davis.
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Jeffrey Morton,
who wrote about
categorified algebra
and quantum mechanics and the
role of
cobordisms with corners in topological quantum field theory,
especially the Dijkgraaf-Witten model. In the spring of 2007 he finished
his thesis and
went on to a postdoc with Dan Christensen at the University of Western Ontario.
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Alissa Crans, who worked
on aspects of higher gauge theory, namely
Lie 2-algebras and their relation to topology. We wrote a paper together on this
stuff. In June 2004 she gave a nice lecture on higher linear algebra
at the Institute for
Mathematics and its Applications - check out her lecture notes. In August of 2004 she finished
her PhD thesis. She then started a
tenure-track job at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. This
was close enough that we could easily keep on collaborating, so we
wrote a paper on loop
groups and 2-groups with a couple of friends.
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Toby Bartels, who wrote many
expository papers including especially nice ones
on quaternionic quantum mechanics
and the theory of
properties, structure and stuff. In June 2006, he finished his thesis on higher gauge theory.
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Miguel
Carrión Álvarez,
who found a beautiful generalization of the
Gelfand-Naimark
theorem. Miguel typed up detailed notes of
the Fall
2000 and Winter 2001 sessions of the
quantum gravity seminar, which dealt with spin
networks and topological field theory. In December 2004, he finished his
thesis on Wilson loop dynamics for
the quantized electromagnetic field. In the process he became a bit
of an expert on analysis on noncompact Riemannian manifolds. Now
he's in London working in mathematical finance.
If you think they're so cute you want an even bigger picture, click
here.
If you want to learn more about their research, click
here.
Here is a picture of Miguel, Jeffrey and Derek taken in London in
2008:
Here is a picture of my former student Brendan Fong and my postdoc
Christina Vasilakopoulou at CT2018 in the Azores in July 2018:
Here is a picture of many of my students taken on June 12, 2018:
From left to right you see me, Brandon Coya, Joe Moeller, Christian
Williams, Jade Master, Christina Vasilakopoulou, and Kenny Courser.
All of them were students of mine at the time except for Christina, who
was my postdoc.
Here is a photo taken at a party in honor of Joe Moeller passing
his oral exam, on April 16, 2019:
The people here, from left to right, are my students Christian
Williams, Jade Master and Joe Moeller, my postdoc Christina
Vasilakopoulou, me — and James Alcala and Joshua Meyers,
who were not my grad students.
Here is a photo taken at the Fourth
Symposium on Compositional Structures at Chapman University
on Mary 22, 2019:
From left to right are Jason Erbele, Daniel Cicala, Christina Vasilakopoulou,
John Baez, Jeffrey Morton, Joe Moeller and Christian Williams.
© 2019 John Baez
baez@math.removethis.ucr.andthis.edu