Assistant University

Jack Huizenga

Department of Math, Stats and CS 857-***-****

University of Illinois at Chicago ********@****.***.***

http://math.uic.edu/ huizenga/

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Chicago, IL 60607

Employment

University of Illinois at Chicago 2012-Present

Research Assistant Professor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow

Education

Harvard University 2012

Ph.D. in Mathematics

Harvard University 2008

S.M. in Mathematics

The University of Chicago 2007

B.A. with Honors in Mathematics

Research Interests

I am primarily interested in classical algebraic geometry. My research focuses on the geometry of

curves and surfaces, with a particular emphasis on interpolation-type problems over surfaces.

These problems deal with particular types of zero-dimensional subschemes, as well as the

geometry of vector bundles. Combinatorics also tends to play a major role in my research.

Awards and Honors

Awarded an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2012

Awarded the Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching 2011

This is the first time a member of the math department has won this award

Awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 2007

Awarded the Paul R. Cohen memorial prize for mathematics 2007

Awarded the Barry M. Goldwater scholarship for science and mathematics 2005

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Illinois chapter 2006

Appointed Student Marshal at the University of Chicago 2006

Publications

J. Huizenga, Restrictions of Steiner bundles and divisors on the Hilbert scheme of points in the

plane, Int. Math. Res. Not., to appear.

J. Huizenga, Restrictions of Steiner bundles and divisors on the Hilbert scheme of points in the

plane, Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University.

D. Arcara, A. Bertram, I. Coskun, and J. Huizenga, The minimal model program for the Hilbert

scheme of points on P2 and Bridgeland stability, submitted.

J. Huizenga, Interpolation on surfaces in P3, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., to appear.

J. Huizenga and K. Tapp, Invariant metrics with nonnegative curvature on SO(4) and other Lie

groups, Michigan Math. J. 55 (2007), 609-630.

J. Huizenga, The minimum size of complete caps in (Z/nZ)2, Elec. J. Comb. 13 (2006) R58.

J. Huizenga, Chromatic capacity and graph operations, Discrete Math. 308 (2008), 2134-2148.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Math 320, Linear Algebra I, at UIC Fall 2012

Taught Math 21a, Multivariable Calculus, at Harvard Fall 2010

Taught Math 21a, Multivariable Calculus, at Harvard Fall 2009

Recitation leader for Math 232a & 232b, Algebraic Geometry I & II, at Harvard 2009-10

Received a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for both semesters

Attended teacher training seminar Fall 2007

Course assistant for Math 204-5, Analysis II & III, at the University of Chicago 2007

Course assistant for Math 161-3, Honors Calculus I, II & III, at U of Chicago 2004-5

Expository Articles and Presentations, available on the web

J. Huizenga, Steiner bundles and divisors on the Hilbert scheme of points in P2 . Poster presented

at Joe Harris 60th birthday conference.

J. Huizenga, Interpolation on Surfaces in P3 . Slides.

J. Huizenga, Rationally connected varieties. This was my minor thesis at Harvard.

J. Huizenga, The Noether-Lefschetz theorem.

Talks

Texas A&M workshop on applications of algebraic geometry to science April 2012

University of Michigan Algebraic Geometry Seminar April 2012

Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar September 2011

Rice University Algebraic Geometry Seminar April 2011

University of Illinois at Chicago Algebraic Geometry Seminar March 2011

Harvard-MIT Baby Algebraic Geometry Seminar February 2011

Invited special session speaker at the Joint Meetings of the MAA/AMS January 2011

Informal problems in algebraic geometry seminar October 2009

Harvard-MIT Baby Algebraic Geometry Seminar September 2009

Harvard Trivial Notions Seminar September 2009

Harvard Trivial Notions Seminar November 2008

Conferences Attended

Texas Algebraic Geometry Symposium April 2012

Joe Harris 60th birthday conference at Harvard August 2011

Joint meetings of the MAA/AMS in New Orleans January 2011

MRC workshop on Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces at Snowbird, Utah June 2010

Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces summer school at University of Utah June 2010

References

Joe Harris, Harvard University (thesis advisor)

Izzet Coskun, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago

Aaron Bertram, University of Utah

Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois at Chicago

Jameel Al-Aidroos, Harvard University (teaching reference)

Wilfried Schmid, Harvard University (teaching reference)

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