Hi, I’m Jon Hillery
I’m a PhD student in the UCLA Department of Mathematics, interested in representation theory. I was previously a student at UC Berkeley and Cambridge University. More info about me is in my CV.
- hillery@math.ucla.edu
- MS 2350
For Fall 2024, I’m a TA for Math 33A Linear Algebra and Applications. My office hours are Thursdays 10-11 in MS 2350.
Featured Projects
Unitary Dual of Some Lie Groups
Class project (Berkeley 252/261A) on the unitary representations of SU(2) and SL(2, R).
Unitarizability of Representations of Kac-Moody Algebras
Class project (Berkeley 261B) on the unitarizability of highest-weight representations of Kac-Moody and other Lie algebras.
The Brauer Group of a Nonarchimedean Local Field
Class project (Berkeley 254A) on the computing the Brauer group of local fields.
Topological Quantum Computation and Fusion Categories
Class project (Berkeley CS C191) on the the mathematical formulation of topological quantum computing.