Jonathan Kirby

2006 - present: I am a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

I have extracted my mathematical genealogy from the mathematics genealogy project.

My Erdös number is 4:

Jonathan Kirby - Boris Zilber - Ehud Hrushovski - Saharon Shelah - Paul Erdös

For more information on Erdös numbers see the Erdös number project website.

More mundane facts about me follow.

Education

2002 - 2006: Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

DPhil in Model Theory, supervised by Prof. Boris Zilber
Thesis: The Theory of Exponential Differential Equations

2001 - 2002: University of Manchester

MSc in Mathematical Logic, passed with distinction
Dissertation: A new look at Counterexamples in Topology

1997 - 2001: Queens' College, University of Cambridge

2001: Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics, known as "Part III", passed with distinction
Dissertation: Coherence and higher categorical structures
2000: BA, Mathematics IIB, 1st class honours
(BA converted to MA, 2004)
1999: Mathematics IB, 1st class honours
1998: Mathematics with Physics IA, 1st class honours

Prizes and Awards

College Exhibition, Foundation Scholarship and Bachelor Scholarship of Queens' College
The Edward Gibbon Prize of Magdalen College for the best research presentation of the year, 2004
The Edward Chapman Research Prize of Magdalen College, 2005
The Peter Davies Scholarship 2005/06

Seminars / Invited Talks

Algebraic Geometry / Number Theory seminar, UIC, Intersecting varieties with algebraic groups, 8th November 2006
Model Theory seminar, UIC, The theory of exponential differential equations, 31st October 2006
Model Theory seminar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 20th October 2006
Model Theory seminar, UIC, The model theoretic geometry of exponentiation, 31st October 2006
Logic seminar, University of Notre Dame, 28th September 2006
Model theory seminar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 5th April 2006
Pure mathematics colloquium, University of Haifa, 4th April 2006
Differential equations seminar, Weizmann Institute, 2nd April 2006
Leeds Logic seminar, 22nd February 2006
Dimension theory and differential equations, Séminaire de théorie des modèles, Lyon 1, 2nd February 2006
Dimension theory and differential equations, Séminaire : structures algébriques ordonnées, Paris 7, 31st January 2006
Model theory of some differential equations, Séminaire général de Logique, Paris 7, 30th January 2006
Model theory of some differential equations, Oxford Logic seminar, 27th January 2006
Closure operators and Grothendieck topologies, Oxford junior logic seminar, 8th November 2005
Exponential and Weierstrass equations (Categoricity), given at the British Logic Colloquium 2005, Bristol, 2nd September 2005
Exponential and Weierstrass differential equations, given at the Logic Colloquium 2005, Athens, 31st July 2005
Amalgamation constructions II, given the to junior logic seminar, 3rd May 2005
Exponential and Weierstrass equations, given at the workshop "An Introduction to Recent Applications of Model Theory", Isaac Newton Institute, 8th April 2005
Exponential and Weierstrass equations, given to the Oxford logic group, 22nd March 2005
Amalgamation constructions, given the to junior logic seminar, 8th March 2005
Model theory and Geometry, two talks given to the Calf algebraic geometry seminar, Oxford, 7th December 2004
Topological structures, part of the junior logic seminar series on the model theory of analytic structures, 3rd November 2004
Schanuel conditions for Weierstrass functions, three further classes continuing from the six listed below, Michaelmas 2004
To Infinity and Back, given to a non-mathematical audience at the Magdalen Research Forum, 20th May 2004
This talk won me the Edward Gibbon prize for the best research talk of the year.
Forking in differentially closed fields, given to the junior logic seminar, 19th May 2004
Algebraic properties of forking, part of the junior logic seminar series on Forking in simple theories, 18th February 2004
Simplicity and extension, also part of Forking in simple theories, 28th January 2004
Schanuel conditions for Weierstrass functions, a series of six classes given to the Oxford logic advanced class, Michaelmas 2003
Closed differentials of the third kind, given to the junior logic seminar, 6th June 2003
Stone duality, given to the junior logic seminar, 4th February 2003
Quantifier elimination for differentially closed fields, given to the junior logic seminar, 5th December 2002
The Lawvere-Tierney correspondence, given to the mathematical foundations group, Manchester, May 2002