Professor & Walker Family Professor Contact Information jarod@uw.edu (206) 543-9352 PDL C-549 Personal Website Fields of Interest Algebra Algebraic Geometry Geometry Biography PhD, Stanford University, 2008 Courses Taught Spring 2025MATH 480 B: Advanced Topics in Undergraduate Mathematics MATH 509 A: Algebraic Structures Winter 2023MATH 510 A: Seminar in Algebra MATH 510 B: Seminar in Algebra MATH 582 A: Special Topics in Mathematics News & Events Related News Jarod Alper receives Frontiers of Science Award (June 5, 2026) UW Lean Hackathon 2026 (May 20, 2026) 2023 Simons Fellow (March 7, 2023) Jarod Alper appointed Associate Professor (March 1, 2016) Related Events Math AI Seminar: Math AI Lab poster session - March 16 2026, 4pm Math AI Seminar: Verifiable PDE Reasoning and Modeling with Neurosymbolics - January 23 2026, 3:30pm Math AI Seminar: Geometry and Expressivity of Neuromanifolds: Where Algebraic Geometry Meets Neural Networks - December 5 2025, 12:30pm Math AI Seminar: Machine Learning for Accelerating Mathematical Discovery in Algebraic Combinatorics - November 21 2025, 12:30pm Math AI Seminar: Proving and Improving: Language Models for Theorem Proving and Proof Shortening in Lean - October 31 2025, 12:30pm Math AI Seminar: Lean Together - October 24 2025, 1:30pm Math AI Seminar: CayleyPy - Artificial intelligence methods for group and graph theories - October 24 2025, 12:30pm Math AI Seminar: Seed-Prover: Deep and Broad Reasoning for Automated Theorem Proving - October 17 2025, 12:30pm UW-PIMS Colloquium: Evolution of Moduli - May 2 2025, 3:30pm Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Student AG Seminar: The Picard group of the moduli of vector bundles on a curve - April 11 2025, 3:30pm Math AI Seminar: Math AI Lab Winter 2025 Projects - March 14 2025, 2:30pm Math AI Seminar: Formalizing mathematics in the eXperimental Lean Lab - December 3 2024, 4:30pm Current Topics Seminar: Session 2 - October 22 2020, 4:30pm Current Topics Seminar: A tale of two polynomials - March 9 2017, 4pm