I am...

to borrow from Stephen Hawking, a mathematician, a musician, and something of a dreamer. 

My research interests include algebraic and arithmetic geometry, number theory and topology. For my dissertation, I gave a description of wildly ramified covers of curves in the language of algebraic stacks. I am also highly motivated by the analogies between algebra, number theory and topology (e.g. the ideas behind étale cohomology and A¹-homotopy theory). 

As of July 2024, you can find me in one of the following ways:

Email: ajkobinmath (at) gmail (dot) com

Phone: (858) 622-5473

Outside of math, I enjoy music, reading, languages, tennis, running, skiing, hiking and good food. Here's a photo of me playing piano at an open mic event hosted by University Records while a grad student at University of Virginia. (Dave Matthews looks impressed)

Also while at UVA, I recorded an album with local recording artist Riley Timmer and I helped found Marti, a Charlottesville-based indie band. Here’s a photo from a WXTJ house show we played in 2019.