Matt DeLand's Homepage

Welcome to my home page! Check back for updates often!

Contact Info

• Office: 408 Mathematics
• Phone: (212)-854-5886
• Email: deland@math.columbia.edu

Math Links

• IGAGS
• Elementary Methods Seminar
• Columbia Math Department Home Page

Teaching

• SUMMER 2009: Calculus II
• Fall '07: Undergraduate Seminar on Plane Curves
• Summer '07: Linear Algebra
• Spring '07: TA for Algebraic Geometry
for Professor deJong and Calculus 1 for Professor Stein
• Fall '06: TA for Commutative Algebra
for Professor deJong and Calculus 1 for Professor Stein.
• Summer '06: Linear Algebra
• Spring '06: TA for Calculus 3, Professor Cao
• Fall '05: Knot Theory Seminar
• Summer '05: Calculus 4
• Fall '04 - Present: Columbia Math Helproom Employee
• Spring '03 - Spring '04: Yale University CORE Mathematics Tutor

Publications and Preprints

• Complete Families of Linearly Non-Degenerate Rational Curves in Projective Space Paper Version as of November 13, 2008
• Cubic Hypersurfaces and Strong Rational Simple Connectedness Paper In Preparation - Version as of January, 2009
• A Study of Conics on Hypersurfaces Without Using Bend and Break Paper In Preparation - Version as of March 6, 2009

Mathematical Interests

• Algebraic Geometry:
• My research focuses on studying the geometry of spaces of Rational Curves on Algebraic Varieties. These spaces may mean the Hilbert Scheme, the Chow Variety, or the the Kontsevich Mapping Space depending on the situation.
• I'm also interested in curves, questions of rationality, birational geometry, etc.