{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:20:09","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\"><div class=\"container px-0\"><div class=\"row align-items-start\"><div class=\"col-12\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/files\/IMG_5717-2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo of a manta ray taken at Georgia Aquarium.\" class=\"wp-image-646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/files\/IMG_5717-2-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/files\/IMG_5717-2-300x112.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/files\/IMG_5717-2-1024x384.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/files\/IMG_5717-2-768x288.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/files\/IMG_5717-2-1536x576.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/files\/IMG_5717-2-2048x768.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/files\/IMG_5717-2-414x155.jpeg 414w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/files\/IMG_5717-2-940x352.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/files\/IMG_5717-2-1440x540.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourth-year PhD student<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teaching Assistant (Fall 2023-Spring 2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructor of Record (Summer 2026-current)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Areas of Interest\/Research<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Topology, Discrete Morse Theory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strong Discrete Morse Theory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Background<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>MS in Mathematics<br>\nUniversity of Florida 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BA in Mathematics and Philosophy with Honors<br>\nCarson-Newman University 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Contact Information<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: aowens2@ufl.edu<br>\nOffice: LIT 457<br>\nMath Department: (352) 294-2350<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Office Hours (LIT 457)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Mondays 3-4pm<br>Thursdays 12:30-1:30pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or by appointment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1337,"featured_media":646,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/aowens2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}