My name is Joshua Nauman, a sophomore at Michigan State University in the Honors College working towards a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics, Advanced and a second Bachelors of Science in Computational and Applied Mathematics with a minor in Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering. I am an undergraduate research assistant at MSU and also work as a tutor.

As an undergraduate research assistant, my research lies at the intersection of functional analysis and differential geometry, focusing on variational problems arising in the theory of elasticity. I use tools from the calculus of variations and differential equations to study the bending energy of curves under geometric constraints, seeking energy-minimizing configurations of thin elastic rods.

I have research interests in Functional/Harmonic/Real Analysis, Fractional Calculus, Partial Differential Equations, Fractional Partial Differential Equations, and Differential Geometry.