Michael Joyce
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Tulane University



Contact Information

Address: Department of Mathematics
Tulane University
Gibson Hall 424
6823 St. Charles Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70118
Office:Gibson 421
Phone:(504)-862-3444
Fax:(504)-865-5063
Email:mjoyce@math.tulane.edu


Teaching

  • Math 221 Section 03 (Spring 2006)
  • Math 311 Section 01 (Spring 2006)
  • Geometry of Del Pezzo surfaces (Lagniappe 2006)
  • Math 221 Section 07 (Fall 2006)
  • Math 221 Section 04 (Spring 2007)
  • Introduction to Lie Groups and Lie Algebras (Summer 2007)
  • Math 131 Section 02 (Fall 2007)
  • Math 131 Section 03 (Fall 2007)
  • Math 398 Section 01 (Fall 2007)
  • Math 221 Section 01 (Spring 2008)
  • Math 305 Section 01 (Spring 2008)
  • Math 399 Section 01 (Spring 2008)


    • Research

    Research interests:
  • Manin's conjectures for almost Fano varieties
  • Cox rings of generalized del Pezzo surfaces
  • Algebraic geometry and number theory


    • Publications and Preprints

  • The Nef Cone Volume of Generalized Del Pezzo Surfaces,
    with U. Derenthal and Z. Teitler, Algebra and Number Theory 2 (2008),
    no. 2, 157--182 .
  • A First Glimpse at the Minimal Model Program,
    with C. Cadman, I. Coskun, K. Jabbusch, S. Kovacs, M. Leiblich,
    F. Sato, M. Szczesny and J. Zhang, 2005.
  • A Transformation of Rational Functions,
    with G. Boros and V. Moll, 2003.



    • "The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."
    -- David Hilbert