Dr. Jonathan Novak

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Biography

Jonathan Novak received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Queen's University, Canada in 2010. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in 2010 and served as an instructor of Applied Mathematics at MIT from 2011 to 2015, before joining the faculty at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His research employs tools from algebraic combinatorics to comprehend the exact enumerative structure and the approximate high-dimensional behavior of multivariate special functions that arise in areas such as random matrix theory, representation theory, and mathematical physics.

Research Interests

Special Functions Mathematical Physics

Requirements for University of California, San Diego

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:85
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:120
Overall
Required:120
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in physical, biological, or earth sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Differential and integral calculus. One year of calculus-based physics with laboratory. One year of chemistry with laboratory.
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Specialization Notes

Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).