My name is Jiajun Yan. I graduated from the University of Virginia in August 2023 with a Ph.D. degree in mathematics under the supervision of Thomas Mark. I am currently a Lovett Instructor (postdoc) working with Jo Nelson at Rice University. For my research, I study gauge theory and explore its interactions with low-dimensional topology, representation theory, and singularity theory. Here is my CV.
A theorem I spent a long time penetrating
(N. J. Hitchin, The Self-Duality Equations on a Riemann Surface, 1987)
A painting I spent a long time scrutinizing
A book I spent a long time hopscotching
An album I spent a long time fixating