I am an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow jointly at Princeton and IAS. My interests include symplectic topology, dynamical systems, smooth manifolds and symplectic field theory.

I will be a tenure track Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California starting in Fall 2023.

I received my PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 2021 under the supervision of Michael Hutchings

I was previously awarded the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Herb Alexander Prize for outstanding thesis, the NSF Graduate Fellowship, the UC Chancellor's Fellowship, and the Rose Hills Foundation Fellowship.

• PU/IAS Symplectic Seminar (Fall 2021-Spring 2023)
• Princeton courses: Fall 2022
• Wrapped Floer Theory Seminar (Fall 2019)
• Monopole Floer Seminar (Spring 2019)
• Legendrian Floer Homology Reading Group (Fall 2018)
• Berkeley Geometry Undergrad Program (Summer 2018)
• Floer Analysis Learning Seminar (Fall 2018)
• Gauge Theory Seminar (Fall 2017)
• UC Berkeley courses: Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
• Pre 2015: MathRoots and HSSP Topics In Pure Math

• Solutions to Characteristic Classes by John Milnor & James Stasheff (~90% of Exercises) [pdf]
• Solutions to Introduction To Symplectic Topology (2nd Ed.) by Dusa McDuff & Dietmar Salamon (~95% of Ch. 1-5 Exercises) [pdf]

• J. Chaidez, S. Tanny. Elementary SFT Spectral Gaps And The Strong Closing Property For Near Periodic Flows. In Preparation.
• J. Chaidez, J. Cotler, X. Cui. Combed Trisections Diagrams And Non-Semisimple 4-Manifold Invariants. In Preparation.
• J. Chaidez, O. Edtmair, L. Wang, Y. Yuan, Z. Zhao. Legendrian Embedded Contact Homology. [arxiv]
• J. Chaidez, B. Wormleighton. Newton-Okoukov Bodies And Symplectic Embeddings Into Non-Toric Rational Surfaces. [arxiv]
• J. Chaidez, I. Datta, R. Prasad, S. Tanny. Contact Homology And The Strong Closing Lemma For Ellipsoids. [arxiv]
• J. Chaidez, O. Edtmair. The Ruelle Invariant And Convexity In Higher Dimensions. [arxiv]
• J. Chaidez, B. Wormleighton. Lattice Formulas For Rational SFT Capacites. [arxiv]
• J. Chaidez, O. Edtmair. 3D Convex Contact Forms And The Ruelle Invariant. Inventiones mathematicae. (2022) [arxiv, journal]
• J. Chaidez, M. Hutchings. Computing Reeb Dynamics On 4d Convex Polytopes. Journal of Computational Dynamics. 8(4) (2021) p. 403-445 [arxiv, journal]
• J. Chaidez, B. Wormleighton. ECH Embedding Obstructions For Rational Surfaces. [arxiv]
• J. Chaidez, J. Cotler, X. Cui. 4-Manifold Invariants From Hopf Algebras. Algebraic & Geometric Topology 22 (2022), p. 3747-3807 [arxiv]
• J. Chaidez, C. Munteanu. Essential Tori In Spaces Of Symplectic Embeddings. Algebraic & Geometric Topology 21 (2021) p. 2489–2522 [arxiv, journal]
• Note: Preprints marked with ■ are submitted or published.