Jarod Alper

I am a Walker Family Endowed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington. My research lies in algebraic geometry and specifically in the study of stacks and moduli (see the visualization of the moduli stack of genus 3 curves to the right). I am also interested broadly in theoretical computer science and the emerging field of Artificial Intelligence for Mathematics.

I am a 2026 invited ICM speaker. My research is partially funded by NSF grants DMS-2100088 (Foundations of Moduli Theory) and NSF DMS-2502114 (Moduli, Stacks, and Beyond). During 2024, I was funded by a Simons Fellowship. From 2012-16, I was a lecturer/senior lecturer at Australian National University in Canberra, Australia where I was a recipient of an ARC DECRA grant. From 2011-12, I was a (tenure-track) assistant professor at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. From 2013-14 I was a Alexander von Humboldt fellow at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Beforehand, I was an NSF postdoc from 2008-11 at Columbia University working with Johan de Jong. I completed my Ph.D. in 2008 under the supervision of Ravi Vakil at Stanford University.

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