june lo

Hi. My name is June Lo / Lo̍h Ka-tsùn / Lo Chia-Chun.

I am a PhD student in Pure Mathematics at King's College London under the supervision of Jean Lagacé. Before this, I studied at Imperial College London.

Publications

Homogenisation for the Robin eigenvalue problem on manifolds and flexibility of optimal Schrödinger potentials. preprint. November 2024. link
Diffusion enhancement and Taylor dispersion for rotationally symmetric flows in discs and pipes. Joint with Michele Coti Zelati and Michele Dolce. Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics. 26, 12 (2024). January 2024. link

Talks, teaching & related activities

I am helping to organise the 2025 cycle of the KCL Analysis Seminar.

I have delivered a few talks about my research. Since 2022 I have also been working as a graduate teaching assistant in the department. See details here.

Programming

I write code from time to time.

Lean mathlib contributions. From around 2018–2021 I learnt about the Lean theorem prover and made some contributions to the community math library, including some results about normed vector spaces and topological dynamics.
The pgf-easing package. In 2019 I put together a cursed contraption for animating in TeX for a summer project; some of the code eventually made its way onto CTAN.

I have migrated away from github, but some of my old projects can still be found on my profile page there.

Other activities

I was editor for the Imperial College Sci-Fi & Fantasy Society for two years, and helped produce the newsletter and annual fanzine for an additional year in 2021. I don't know if the publications page will ever be back up at icsf.org, but there is a copy of the archives here.

Miscellaneous

What's with the name(s)?
I am Taiwanese. The family name is Lo, the given name is Chia-Chun. My personal preference is to give them in that order, except when appearing in a list that already adopts the opposite convention. Sometimes the name is rendered instead as Lo̍h Ka-tsùn, with or without the diacritics; this is the romanisation of the Taigi, rather than Mandarin, pronunciation of the same characters.

After moving to London, I took an English-language name, hoping that it would be easier to remember and pronounce for English speakers. Besides, the romanisation situation was a bit of a mess anyway and I thought this was an opportunity to choose a name that approximated the pronunciation better. These days I spell it June, though some older material—such as my mathlib contributions and editor's comments for Wyrmtongue—was written under the name Jean Lo.