Jonathan
Wahl
I am a Professor in
the UNC Mathematics Department, on the
faculty since 1973.
Education
B.S.
Yale 1965
M.A. Yale 1965
Ph.D. Harvard 1971 (Adviser : David Mumford)
How to find me:
- My office is in Phillips Hall 304A. My office phone
number is: (919) 962-9610.
- My best e-mail address is jmwahl@email.unc.edu.
- Spring 2012 Office Hours are MW, 2:00-3:15.
- You can send me mail at the Department of Mathematics,
UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3250.
- You can fax me at 919-962-8160, or talk to the DMJ
assistant at 919-962-8159.
My Fall 2012
teaching schedule:
Math 771 (Commutative Algebra) Tu-Th 9:30-10:45; Math 233H
(Honors Multivariable Calculus) Tu-Th 11-12:15.
My research
interests:
Algebraic geometry; topology and geometry of surface
singularities; algebraic curves and surfaces.
I am Managing
Editor of the Duke Mathematical Journal:
The DMJ office is located in Phillips 368, and is staffed by
the DMJ Assistant, Marisa Meredith. The phone number there is 919-962-8159, and
the fax is 919-962-8160. The e-mail address of the Journal is dmj@math.unc.edu. Important information is
found on the Journal homepage, at
http://www.dukeupress.edu/dmj/index.shtml.
I am a member of
the American Mathematical Society.
Recent Publications
and Preprints
1. Log-terminal
smoothing of graded normal surface singularities, preprint, arXiv:1110.2979 here
2. On rational homology disk
smoothings of valency 4 surface singularities, Geom.
Topol.15 (2011), 1125-1156 here
3. The End Curve Theorem for
normal complex surface singularities (with Walter Neumann), J. Eur. Math. Soc. 12 (2010), 471-503 here .
4. Rational blow-downs and
smoothings of surface singularities (with A. Stipsicz and Z. Szabo), Journal of Topology
1 (2008), 477-517 here.
5. Topology, geometry, and
equations of normal surface singularities, in Singularities and Computer Algebra,
LMS Lecture Note Series (No. 324), Camb. Univ. Press (2006) here.
6. Complete intersection
singularities of splice type as universal abelian covers (with Walter Neumann), Geom.
Topol. 9 (2005), 699-755 here
.
7. Complex surface singularities
with integral homology sphere links (with Walter Neumann), Geom. Topol. 9 (2005),
757-811 here .
8. Universal abelian covers of surface
singularities
(with Walter Neumann), Trends on Singularities, A. Libgober and M.
Tibar, eds. (Birkhauser Verlag, 2002), 181-190 here .
9. Universal abelian covers of
quotient-cusps
(with Walter Neumann), Math. Ann. 326 (2003), 75-93 here .
10. Hyperplane sections of
Calabi-Yau varieties,
J. Reine Angew. Math. 544 (2002), 39-59 here .
11. On cohomology of the square
of an ideal sheaf,
J. of Alg. Geom. 8 (1997), 481-512 here .
12. Miyaoka-Yau inequality for
normal surfaces and local analogues, Contemp. Math. 162 (1994), 381-402.
Here
is a Complete
publication list.
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modified: 4 April 2012