About Me

Current Position
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT (2024-2027)
Previous Position
CRM-ISM Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill University (2022-2024)
Contact
JLFLYNN@MIT.EDU
All are welcomed to contact me, especially regarding mathematics, collaboration or by students/early career researchers interested in pursuing academia.
Curriculum vitae
Here (updated Aug 2024)
Research Interests
Currently I am working in the direction of geometric analysis and geometric measure theory. I am also interested in various directions of CR geometry, conformal geometry, geometric flows, harmonic analysis and sharp functional and geometric inequalities.
Activities
Association for Women in Mathematics Mentor Network (consider becoming a mentor!)
Geometric and Functional Inequalities and Applications (virtual and worldwide, since 2020)
Spectra: the Association for LGBT Mathematicians (consider joining!)
CRM Equity-Diversity-Inclusion Committee (committee member 2022-2024)
Co-organizing an AMS Special Session for students (Oct 2025)
Geometric Analysis Seminar (McGill University, 2022-2024, co-organized)
Postdocs at CRM Seminar (CRM/UdeM, 2023-2024, co-founded)
Undergrad Harmonic Analysis Reading Group (McGill, Summer 2024, co-founded)
Co-supervised a Department Undergraduate Research Award (funded undergrad research project at McGill, Summer 2024)
Co-supervised undergrad research project (McGill University/MIT, Summer 2025)
Misc. Links (unaffiliated)
Hello World! (Video series for early career mathematicians; consider participating!)
About me
I started studying mathematics at Tacoma Community College by taking Math 90 Elementary Algebra. Initially, I enrolled in the biology program at TCC, became interested in microbiology and helped sequence the DNA of a bacteria species (mostly an exercise). However, I switched to physics a day before the program’s “cadaver lecture.” Having completed the physics program, I transferred to the University of Washington as a physics and mathematics double major. Interested in theoretical physics, I enrolled in a particle physics graduate course, but dropped it and shifted focus to math after finding my mathematical background was insufficient for pursuing theoretical physics.

After UW, I enrolled in the mathematics graduate program at the University of Connecticut. Here is where I began focusing on analysis. I graduated in May 2022 with a PhD in mathematics at UConn under the supervision of Prof. Guozhen Lu. My thesis is on sharp geometric inequalities on rank one symmetric spaces (the hyperbolic spaces) and their boundaries (the Heisenberg groups).

After UConn, I was awarded the CRM-ISM Postdoctoral Fellowship in Montréal and registered at McGill University, which started in 2022 and ended in 2024. There, I worked under the supervision of Alina Stancu (Concordia University), Galia Dafni (Concordia University), Jérôme Vétois (McGill University) and Pengfei Guan (McGill University). Now, I am a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow registered at MIT and working under the supervision of David Jerison.

I am from a (once) small harbor town in Washington state and I always welcome any mathematical or general discussions (email correspondence or otherwise). On my free time I write music, game and work on hobby electronics.