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Jonathan Mboyo Esole Education Academic APRIL 2016 JONATHAN MBOYO ESOLE HARVARD UNIVERSITY• MATH DEPARMENT • 1 OXFORD STREET • CAMBRIDGE• MA 02138 • USA EMAIL:ESOLE ( AT) MATH.HARVARD.EDU PERSONAL WEBSITE: WWW.MATH.HARVARD.EDU/~ESOLE Jonathan Mboyo ESOLE is a Benjamin Peirce Fellow in the Mathematics Department at Harvard University and a member of the Harvard University Center for the Fundamental Law of Nature. He is interested in the interface of mathematics and physics, especially the study of (algebraic) geometric and arithmetic aspects of string theory. He is currently working on elliptic fibrations, topological invariants of singular varieties and conformal field theories. His research is supported by grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research on the mathematics of elliptic fibrations and its applications to physics. He is a recipient of the Ford Fellowship, and the Marie-Curie Fellowship. EDUCATION n Lorentz Institute, Leiden University November 2006 PhD, Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Supervisor: Professor A. Achúcarro n University of Cambridge, Clare Hall College June 2002 Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics, Cambridge, UK Academic mentor: Professor F. Quevado n Université Libre de Bruxelles September 2001 Master degree in Mathematics, Brussels (Summa Cum Laude) Supervisor : Professor Marc Henneaux (Franqui Prize winner) ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT § Northeastern University (Department of Mathematics) Starting in September 2016 Assistant Professor § Harvard University (Department of Mathematics) July 2013-June 2016 Benjamin Peirce Fellow (Assistant Professor) § Harvard University (Department of Mathematics) October 2009-June 2013 Research Fellow & Lecturer on Mathematics, Academic mentor: Professor S.T. Yau § Harvard University (Physics Department) February 2008- September 2009 Post-Doctoral Fellow. Academic mentor: Professor F. Denef § KU Leuven (Physics Department) January 2007- January 2008 Marie-Curie Fellow. Academic mentor: Professor A. van Proeyen § Stanford University (Physics Department) Spring Semester 2006 Visiting Fellow. Academic mentor: Professor R. Kallosh CURRENT GRANTS § NSF Grant DMS-1406925:``Elliptic Fibrations and String Theory". 2014-2017. § NSF Grant DMS-1603247: ``A Three Workshop Series on the Mathematics and Physics of F-theory". 2016- 2019. SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES § Human Ressources Liaison for the Human Ressources Advisory Committee of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), July 2015-Present § Co-organizer of the Joint Mathematics Colloquium Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern, 2015 § Co-organizer of the FRG Workshop on Generalized Geometry, String Theory and Deformation, Brandeis University, March 2015 § Co-organizer of the Special Session on Singularities and Physics, Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, March 2014 § Co-editor of the Proceedings of the AMS Special Session on Singularities and Physics 2014 § Member of the Graduate Admissions Committee, Harvard University, Department of Mathematics, 2011 and 2013 § Member of the Graduate Qualifying Exam Committee, Harvard University, Department of Mathematics, 2012 and 2014 § Co-organizer of the Seminar of Geometry and Physics at Harvard University, 2013 § Co-organizer of the FRG Workshop on Generalized Geometry, String Theory and Deformations, Harvard University, Cambridge, August 2012 RECENT INVITED TALKS AND SEMINARS § University of Massachusetts in Boston, Physics Colloqiu, April 2016 § Northeastern University, Singularities Seminar, March 2016 § McGill University, Special Math/Physics Seminar, February 2016 § Rutgers University, Mathematics Colloquium, January 2016 § University of California in Davis, January 2016 § String-Math 2015, Sanya, China, December 2015 § Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society, December 2015 § XVIII International Congress of Mathematical Physics, July 2015 § Summer School in Geometric, Algebraic, and Topological Methods of Quantum Field Theory, Villa de Leyva, July 2015 § Seminar of High Energy Physics, Brown University, Providence, October 2015 § Seminar of Geometry, Physics, and Representation Theory, Northeastern University, Boston, October 2015 § University of Pennsylvania, Physics Seminar, Philadelphia, 2015 § Physics and Geometry of F-theory, Max-Plank Institute for Physics, February 2015 § Theoretical Physics Seminar, CUNY, October 2014 § Physics Graduate Student Seminar, Harvard University, October 2014 § Strings 2014, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, June 2014 § Conference for African American Researchers in Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS 2014), Princeton University, Princeton, June 2014 § University of Pennsylvania, Math-Phys Join Seminar, Philadelphia, May 2014 § University of Massachusetts, Boston, Colloquium in Mathematics, December 2013 § Harvard University, String Theory Family Talk, Cambridge, October 2013 § Boston University Geometry and Physics Seminar, Boston, September 2013 § Yau’s students seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, April 2013 § FRG Workshop 2012: Generalized Geometry, Harvard, Cambridge, August 2012 § Taida Institute, Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2012 § UNH, New Hampshire, Particle Physic Seminar, March 2012 § MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, String seminar, Cambridge, March 2012 § TAMU, Higher Energy Theory Seminars, College Station, Texas, June 2012 § American Mathematical Society Fall Eastern meeting 2011, Cornell University, Ithaca (NY), September 2011 § String-Math Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, July 2011 § Caltech University, High Energy Physics seminar, Pasadina, May 2011 § UCSB, High Energy Physics seminar,Santa-Barbara, April 2011 HONORS AND AWARDS n Invited Speaker at String-Math 2015, Sanya, December 2015 n Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics, Santiago, July 2015 n Invited Lecturer at the 2015 Summer School on Geometric, Algebraic, and Topological Methods in Quantum Field Theory, Villa de Leyva, July 2015 n Invited Speaker at Strings 2014, Princeton, June 2014 n Invited Speaker at CAARMS 2014, Princeton, June 2014 n Nominated by the Department of Mathematics at Harvard for the 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship in Mathematics, September 2013 n Benjamin Peirce Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 2013 n Nominated for the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 2011 n Colloquium Speaker, DTZ Asset Management, Brussels, 2009 n Colloquium Speaker, Math Department, Florida State University, 2008 rd n Delegation Speaker at the 3 Marie-Curie Research Training Network Workshop, Valencia (Spain), 2007 n Marie-Curie Fellow, (European Commission), 2006-2008 n Ford Fellow, AIMS, South Africa, 2004 n A.Sc.Br Prize, Best Thesis in the Faculty of Sciences, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, 2001. n Board of Honor, University of Brussels, 2001 n Philippe Wiener-Maurice Anspach Foundation Grant for Cambridge University, 2001 n Albert de Barquin Grant, 1998-2001 n Prize for Top Academic Achievement (“Prix d’ Excellence”) of the Association of Congolese Journalists for Progress, 1997 n Vice Laureate, 1997 Baccalaureate of the Republic of Zaire TEACHING § Graduate Courses: § Math 232b (Algebraic Geometry II: Classification of Algebraic Surfaces): Harvard University, Math Department,Spring 2015-2013. § Math 232a (Algebraic Geometry I: Introduction): Harvard University, Math Department, Fall 2015-2013. § Math 255y (Spin Geometry and SuperSymmetry): Harvard University, Math Department, Fall 2013. § Math 237 (Aspects of Elliptic Fibrations in F-theory): Harvard University, Math Department, Fall 2012 § Series of lectures on elliptic fibrations at the Seminar of Algebraic Geometry (Taida Institute, Taipei, Taiwan) Spring 2012 § Undergraduate Courses: § Math 101 (Set Theory, Group Theory, and Topology): Harvard, Fall 2015,Spring 2015 § Math S-AB (calculus): Harvard University, Summer 2014 § Math S-AB (calculus): Harvard University, Summer 2013 § Math1B (calculus) : Harvard University, Spring 2013 § Math Ma (calculus) : Harvard University, Math Department, Spring 2012 § Math 1B (calculus) : Harvard University, Math Department, Fall 2011 § PhD students: Several years of experience working with PhD students (Harvard, MIT, Leuven University, Florida State University) on research projects both in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics published in high impact journals. .
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