
Current Member
Jo Nelson
Stacy and James Sarvis Founders’ Circle Member
Affiliation
Mathematics
Field of Study
Mathematics
Home Institution
Rice University
Website
Jo Nelson studies symplectic and contact geometry. She develops Floer theories that capture dynamical information about Hamiltonian and Reeb vector fields. At IAS, she plans to explore connections between area-preserving diffeomorphisms of surfaces with boundary and contact geometry.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Mathematics
– current
Spring
Member
School of Mathematics
–
Visitor
School of Mathematics
–
Degrees
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ph.D.
2013
Honors
2022
NSF CAREER Award