Joe Macula

Department of Mathematics
2300 Colorado Avenue
Boulder, CO, 80309

Office: MATH 328

Email: joseph.macula@colorado.edu

About Me

I am curently a PhD candidate in mathematics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I study elliptic curves in the context of isogeny-based cryptography. My advisor is Katherine E. Stange . Previously, I worked as a Program Analyst at the US Environmental Protection Agency and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Georgia.

Research

Preprints

Teaching

CU Boulder

In Fall 2024, I will be an instructor for Calculus III.

Peace Corps

I taught English to primary and secondary school students in grades 3-11 from 2014 to 2016.

Miscellaneous

Living in Colorado has rekindled my skiing hobby. This past winter, I started to dip my toes into backcountry skiing. Having to work for your turns isn't so bad when you find snow like this:

I've spent time the last couple summers exploring Olympic National Park. If you haven't been there, I cannot recommend it highly enough. I've been lucky enough to visit many national parks; Olympic is by far my favorite. Here a few photos from these adventures:

Skyline Ridge, near Lake Beauty.
The depth of these colors was from wildfire smoke.
Eleven Bull Basin, Bailey Range.
The heavily glaciated peak in the distance is Mount Olympus.
Ferry Basin, Bailey Range.
If you squint, you can see a herd of Roosevelt Elk.

This summer, I have more trips to the Olympics scheduled. The goal is make it into Queets Basin.

I try to always have some non-math reading material at hand, to occupy me when I need a break. My current read is Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler. Some of my other recent reads: