Michael T. Schultz

Interests: Calabi-Yau varieties, mirror symmetry & quantum cohomology, geometry surrounding Picard-Fuchs equations, and Seiberg-Witten theory. Lately, I've also been interested in integrable systems associated to the differential geometry of projective surfaces and connections to (2,3,5)-distributions on 5-manifolds. I'm currently a VAP at Virginia Tech working with Leonardo Mihalcea. I finished my PhD in 2021 at Utah State University with Andreas Malmendier. 

With several VT math colleagues I am a co-organizer of the regular Virginia Tech Geometry & Topology seminar. With both VT physics and math colleagues I am a member of the local organizing committee for String Math 2027. 

I wrote an introductory linear algebra book that emphasizes the geometric perspective. I intend this approach to be a runway for students that later need differential geometry or representation theory. Please feel free to use it. Let me know if you do (and when you find the inevitable typos!). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license. 

Email me: michaelschultz at vt dot edu

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