Jesse Ratzkin

Institut für Mathematik, Universität Würzburg, Emile-Fischer-Straße 40, 97074 Würzburg, Germany, jesse.ratzkin@uni-wuerzburg.de

I support Federico Ardila's axioms: 

1. Mathematical potential is distributed equally among different groups, irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.

2. Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences.

3. Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.

4. Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.

I study problems at the interface of geometry and analysis. I've previously worked on mean curvature, scalar curvature, eigenvalues of the Laplacian, and isoperimetric problems in the spirit of Pólya and Szegö. Most recently I've been studying Q-curvature. You can find all my work on arxiv and on mathscinet (subscription required for mathscinet).