Dan Christensen

I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, with a cross appointment to the Department of Applied Mathematics, and an affiliation with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. The Departments of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics are part of the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences.

I am a Managing Editor of Homology, Homotopy and Applications.

My papers, preprints and talks.

Contact information is below.

Research

My research interests include algebraic topology (especially stable homotopy theory and model categories), homotopy type theory and univalent foundations, category theory (especially higher categories), derived categories, modular representation theory, mathematical physics (quantum gravity), and computation.

Research group

Dan Christensen (faculty)
Jarl Taxerås Flaten (Ph.D. student, Sept 2019 until present)
Chirantan Mukherjee (Ph.D. student, Sept 2022 until present)
Jacob Ender (NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award, summer 2022)

Graduate students: I am looking for new graduate students in the areas of homotopy theory, homotopy type theory and topology, broadly construed. If you are interested, please contact me and send an application to our department mentioning my name. To be sure your application can be evaluated fully, please have at least three people submit detailed letters of reference.

Postdocs: I encourage eligible people to apply for an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, an NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (domestic and international applicants eligible), any other NSERC postdoc, an NSF PDF, or similar to be held at Western. The standard NSF postdocs can be held in Canada, and there are other eligible NSF postdocs, e.g. an International Research Fellowship Program postdoc or a Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships.

Students and postdocs: The Canadian Government has many scholarships and fellowships that are available for people from many different countries.

Group photo, July 2021

Links:

My papers, preprints and talks.
My curriculum vita.
I can supervise graduate students in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Physics at Western.
I am an affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics which is located in Waterloo, about a 75 minute drive from Western. Talks at Perimeter.
I am a managing editor of Homology, Homotopy and Applications.
I am a co-organizer of the Homotopy Type Theory Electronic Seminar Talks.
Information on topology at Western
Western is part of SHARCNet, Canada's largest academic supercomputer. A profile of my research, written by SHARCNet staff.
Departmental Math Department Events, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Events.

What's this?

Recent Teaching

Fall 2022	Mathematical Structures, Math 2155F.
Winter 2022	Algebraic Topology, Math 4152b/9052b.
Fall 2021	Mathematical Structures, Math 2155F.
Summer 2021	Mathematical Computation, Math 9171a.
Full list of courses taught at UWO.

Other

I'm on Mathstodon/Mastodon.

SAGE is a wonderful program which interfaces to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and MATLAB, and the free programs Axiom, GAP, GP/PARI, Macaulay2, Maxima, Octave, and Singular. It is freely available and open source.

If you find math fun, consider becoming a math major. Talk to me or anyone else in the department if you're curious.

Here are some photos from trips I have been on.

How to get to London, Ontario, and where to stay.

I've produced plots of roots of polynomials, some of which appeared in a Scientific American article.

Contact information

Dan Christensen
Department of Mathematics
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario N6A 5B7
Canada

Office: MC130
Office phone: (519) 661-2111 x86530
Fax: (519) 661-3610 (include my full name)

E-mail: j d c at u w o . c a

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