Java Darleen Villano

I'm Java, and I work in mathematical logic, mostly computability theory.Starting summer 2025, I will be a postdoc at the University of Toronto. Previously, I was at University of Connecticut, advised by Reed Solomon and Damir Dzhafarov.My email is javavill (at) uconn (dot) edu.Note: My entire first name is Java Darleen, but please feel free to just call me Java.

About me

I was born in the Philippines and moved to California when I was young. I grew up in California, and did most of my school there. I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Mathematics and a Logic minor in Spring 2019. I started at the University of Connecticut in Storrs as a mathematics Ph.D. student in Fall 2019, and graduated with my Ph.D. in Spring 2025.I recently attended the ASL North American Annual Meeting in New Mexico.Outside of math, some of my hobbies include makeup, fashion, collecting cute items (stationary, plushies, etc.), and playing video games.

CV

My CV is available here.---If you were wondering, I use the RenderCV sb2nov Theme template, which can be imported easily into an Overleaf project.

Publications and preprints

Publications

  1. Normality, relativization, and randomness
    with W. Calvert, E. Gruner, E. Mayordomo, and D. Turetsky.
    Theory of Computing Systems, to appear.

  2. Computable categoricity relative to a c.e. degree
    Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, to appear.

  3. The Ginsburg-Sands theorem and computability theory
    with H. Benham, A. DeLapo, D. Dzhafarov, and R. Solomon.
    Advances in Mathematics, vol. 444, 109618, 2024.

Preprints

PhD Thesis

Slides from talks

This is where I will put links to my slides from talks I've given at conferences or in seminars. Please note there may be some minor errors in some of them.

  • Here are my slides for my Ph.D. Oral/General Exam, taken in Fall 2022. If you are currently a UCONN graduate student, please be aware that I took this exam before they clearly established the official guidelines for oral/general exams, so the content of these slides is more than is expected.

  • Here are my slides for a talk based on the point-to-set principle which I gave in a SIGMA Seminar in Fall 2023.

  • Here are my slides for a contributed talk on computable categoricity relative to a c.e. degree which I gave at the 2024 North American Annual ASL Meeting. Here is a version which has more details on the construction that I gave as part of an invited talk at CSTI 2024.

  • Here are my slides from dissertation defense from Spring 2025. They largely contain the same content covered in previous talks I've given on my work on categoricity relative to a degree.

---If you were wondering, I use the Metropolis Beamer Theme for my beamer talks. This theme can be used in Overleaf.

Teaching

For Spring 2025, I am a TA for Math 2110Q (Multivariable Calculus). My office hours are Tuesdays from 11AM-12PM and Wednesdays from 2:30-3:30PM.Below is a list of my previous teaching posts at the UConn Storrs campus since Fall 2019.

  • Fall 2024 — Instructor, Math 1071Q (Calculus for Business and Economics)

  • Spring 2024 — Instructor, Math 1071Q (Calculus for Business and Economics)

  • Fall 2023 — Instructor, Math 1071Q (Calculus for Business and Economics)

  • Spring 2023 — Instructor, Math 1071Q (Calculus for Business and Economics)

  • Fall 2022 — Teaching Assistant, Math 1132Q (Calculus II)

  • Spring 2022 — Teaching Assistant, Math 1132Q (Calculus II)

  • Fall 2021 — Teaching Assistant, Math 1131Q (Calculus I)

  • Spring 2021 — Teaching Assistant, Math 1132Q (Calculus II)

  • Fall 2020 — Teaching Assistant, Math 1132Q (Calculus II)

  • Summer 2020 — Course Tutor with Student Support Services, Math 1070Q (Mathematics for Business and Economics)

  • Spring 2020 — Teaching Assistant, Math 1132Q (Calculus II)

  • Fall 2019 — Teaching Assistant, Math 1131Q (Calculus I)

Outreach

I was a President of the UConn Chapter for the Association for Women in Mathematics.I was a speaker at the Mathematics Continued Conference in Fall 2022. The MCC seeks to give undergraduate students interested in math an opportunity to learn about graduate school and current research done by graduate students and faculty.