Michael T. Schultz

Interests: Calabi-Yau varieties and their period domains, differential geometry of Picard-Fuchs equations, mirror symmetry, semisimplicity of quantum cohomology / K-theory, and Seiberg-Witten theory. Lately, I've also been interested in differential geometric aspects of bracket generating 2-plane distributions on both 5-manifolds and 6-manifolds, and connections to problems in classical differential geometry such as projective surfaces and the local isometric embedding problem. I love all of the hypergeometric friends I meet in connections to and applications of all of these areas. 

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 math & physics 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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Other interests: languages (Deutsch, 中文, 日本語), music (🎸, 🎤), weightlifting, dogs