KO HONDA
Professor of Mathematics
Office Location: MS 7919
Mailing Address: UCLA Department of Mathematics, 520 Portola Plaza, Box 951555, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555
E-mail: honda at math dot ucla dot edu
Office Hours for Fall 2024: TBA
Teaching
Fall 2024
Math 226B: Symplectic Geometry
Math 290F: Participating Topology Seminar
Spring 2024
Math 225C: Algebraic Topology
Schedule
Math 290F: Participating Topology Seminar
Winter 2024
Math 121: Introduction to Topology
Schedule
Math 290F: Participating Topology Seminar
Fall 2023
Math 226B: Fukaya Categories
Math 290F: Participating Topology Seminar
Spring 2022
Math 226B: Symplectic Geometry
Math 290F: Participating Topology Seminar
Winter 2022
Math 121: Introduction to Topology
Schedule
Math 290F: Participating Topology Seminar
Fall 2021
Math 225A: Differentiable Manifolds
Math 290F: Hilbert schemes on surfaces (Wed seminar)
Math 290F: Topology seminars on Fridays
Winter 2021
Math 235: Fukaya Categories
Math 290F: Participating Topology Seminar
Fall 2020
Math 115A: Linear Algebra
Schedule
Math 225A: Differentiable Manifolds
Math 290F: Participating Topology Seminar
Spring 2020
Math 115A: Linear Algebra
Schedule
Math 290F: Participating Topology Seminar
Winter 2020
Math 225B: Differentiable Manifolds
Math 290F: Participating Topology Seminar
Winter 2019
Math 234: Contact Geometry
Notes for first half (3-dimensional part) of the course
Notes for second half of the course (h-principles, etc)
Joe Breen's talk on Liouville & Weinstein domains
Austin Christian's talk on symplectic fillings & Lefschetz fibrations
Math 290F: Participating Topology Seminar
Research
Preprints and Papers
Graduate students:
David Crombecque (Ph.D. 2006)
Roman Golovko
(Ph.D. 2009)
Sandra Ritz (Ph.D. 2010)
Supap Kirtsaeng (Ph.D. 2010)
Yang Huang (Ph.D. 2012)
Russell Avdek (Ph.D. 2013)
Yin Tian (Ph.D. 2014)
Andrew Williams (Ph.D. 2015)
Bahar Acu (Ph.D. 2017)
Michael Menke (Ph.D. 2018)
Bin Tian (Ph.D. 2018)
Jacob Rooney (Ph.D. 2018)
Sangjin Lee (Ph.D. 2019)
Austin Christian (Ph.D. 2021)
Tianyu Yuan (Ph.D. 2021)
Joe Breen (Ph.D. 2022)
Eilon Reisin-Tzur (Ph.D. 2023)
Roman Krutowski
Jung Joo Suh
Course Notes
Differential geometry course notes (first semester)
Homework for the course
Differential geometry course notes (second semester)
3-dimensional contact geometry course notes
Complex analysis course notes
Topological quantum field theory (TQFT) course notes (i.e., guide to reading Kohno's book)
Last modified: August 8, 2024.