Watts, Jordan
Assistant Professor
FACULTY
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Publications & Presentations
- Derek Krepski and Jordan Watts, Differential cocycles and Dixmier-Douady bundles, J. Geom. Phys., Vol. 130 (2018), 168-183.
- Jean-Pierre Magnot and Jordan Watts, The diffeology of Milnor's classifying space, Topol. Appl., Vol. 232 (2017), 189-213.
- Susan Tolman and Jordan Watts, Tame circle actions, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 369 (2017), 7443-7467.
- Jordan Watts, The differential structure of an orbifold, Rocky Mountain J. Math., Vol. 47 (2017), 289-327.
- Yael Karshon and Jordan Watts, Basic forms and orbit spaces: a diffeological approach, SIGMA Symmetry Integrability Geom. Methods Appl., Vol. 12 (2016), 026, 19 pages
- Jiayong Li and Jordan Watts, The orientation-preserving diffeomorphism group of S^2 deforms to SO(3) smoothly, Transformation Groups, Springer, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2011, pp. 537-553.
- Tsasa Lusala, Jędrzej Śniatycki, and Jordan Watts, Regular points of a subcartesian space, Canad. Math. Bull., Vol. 53 (2), 2010, pp. 340-346.
Education
- B.Sc., University of Calgary, 2004
- M.Sc., University of Calgary, 2006
- M.Sc., University of Toronto, 2007
- Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2012
Research Interests
- Differential Topology
- Generalisations of Smooth Structures
- Lie Group Actions
- Symplectic Geometry
- Hamiltonian Group Actions
- Orbifolds
- Data Analysis, especially applied to data concerning drought
Membership in Professional Organizations
- Member of the American Mathematics Society
Courses Taught
- Geometry
- Topology
- Analysis
- Complex Analysis