Jeffrey Streets

Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine

Biography

Jeffrey Streets, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine. A scholar in geometric analysis, Streets has focused his research on geometric evolution equations and the geometry of string theory. He has been a Simons Fellow in Mathematics and a Sloan Research Fellow, and received an NSF CAREER award for his work on geometric flows and four-dimensional geometry.

Streets received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Duke University in 2007, where he studied Ricci Yang-Mills flow under the supervision of Mark Stern. He held an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and a Clay Foundation Liftoff Fellowship. Before joining UC Irvine in 2011, he was an Instructor at Princeton University. His research has been continuously supported by the National Science Foundation since 2010.

Streets is the co-author with Mario Garcia-Fernandez of the book "Generalized Ricci Flow," published in the AMS University Lecture Series in 2020. He has published over 60 research articles in journals including Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Advances in Mathematics, and Journal of the European Mathematical Society. Streets has supervised six Ph.D. students to completion and has been an active organizer of conferences and workshops in geometric analysis, including multiple iterations of the Southern California Geometric Analysis Seminar.

Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics, Duke University, 2007
M.A. in Mathematics, Duke University, 2003
B.A. in Mathematics, The University of Chicago, 2002

Distinctions

Simons Fellow in Mathematics, Simons Foundation, 2022-2023
Clay Foundation Liftoff Fellowship, Clay Mathematics Institute, 2007
Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2013-2015
NSF CAREER Award, 2015-2022
NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2007-2010
UCI Mathematics Department Faculty Mentor Award, 2020-2021

Areas of Expertise

Differential Geometry
Ricci Flow
Ricci Curvature with Torsion
Generalized Geometry
Yang-Mills Theory
Optimal Transport

Recent Publications

Streets J., Strickland-Constable C., Valach F., “Ricci flow on Courant algebroids” (opens in new tab), Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 28, 2026.
Garcia-Fernandez M., Gonzalez Molina R., Streets J., “Pluriclosed flow and the Hull-Strominger system” (opens in new tab), Advances in Mathematics, vol. 485, 2026.
Apostolov V., Barbaro G., Lee K.-H., Streets J., “Rigidity results for non-Kähler Calabi–Yau geometries on threefolds” (opens in new tab), Mathematische Annalen, vol. 393, pp. 3609-3637, 2025.
Apostolov V., Streets J., Ustinovskiy Y., “The Riemannian and symplectic geometry of the space of generalized Kähler structures” (opens in new tab), Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, vol. 100, pp. 147-223, 2025.
J. Streets, G. Tian, “Kähler stability of symplectic forms”, J. Geom. Anal., 2024.
E. Kopfer, J. Streets, “Optimal transport and generalized Ricci flow” (opens in new tab), Symmetry Integrability and Geometry Methods and Applications Sigma, vol. 20, 2024.
S. Gindi, J. Streets, “Four-dimensional generalized Ricci flows with nilpotent symmetry” (opens in new tab), Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 25, no. 07, 2023.
V. Apostolov, J. Streets, Y. Ustinovskiy, “Variational structure and uniqueness of generalized Kähler-Ricci solitons”, Peking Math. Journal, vol. 6, pp. 307-351, 2023.
X. Fu, A. Naber, J. Streets, “Codimension four regularity of generalized Einstein structures” (opens in new tab), Mathematische Annalen, vol. 387, pp. 2001-2059, 2023.
J. Streets, “Scalar curvature, entropy, and generalized Ricci flow” (opens in new tab), International Mathematics Research Notices, vol. 2023, no. 11, pp. 9481–9510, 2023.
E. Kopfer, J. Streets, “Bochner formulas, functional inequalities and generalized Ricci flow” (opens in new tab), Journal of Functional Analysis, vol. 284, no. 10, 2023.
M. Garcia-Fernandez, J. Jordan, J. Streets, “Non-Kähler Calabi-Yau geometry and pluriclosed flow” (opens in new tab), Journal Des Mathematiques Pures Et Appliquees, vol. 177, pp. 329-367, 2023.
J. Streets, “Ricci-Yang-Mills flow on surfaces and pluriclosed flow on elliptic fibrations” (opens in new tab), Advances in Mathematics, vol. 394, 2022.
V. Apostolov, J. Streets, Y. Ustinovskiy, “Generalized Kähler-Ricci flow on toric Fano varieties” (opens in new tab), Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 375, pp. 4369-4409, 2022.
J. Streets, Y. Ustinovskiy, “The Gibbons-Hawking ansatz in generalized Kähler geometry” (opens in new tab), Communications in Mathematical Physics, vol. 391, pp. 707-778, 2022.
Streets J., Tian G., “Kähler Stability of Symplectic Forms” (opens in new tab), Journal of Geometric Analysis, vol. 32, 2022.
M.C. Lee, J. Streets, “Complex manifolds with negative curvature operator” (opens in new tab), International Mathematics Research Notices, vol. 2021, no. 24, pp. 18520-18528, 2021.
S. Gindi, J. Streets, “Structure of collapsing solutions of generalized Ricci flow” (opens in new tab), Journal of Geometric Analysis, vol. 31, pp. 4253-4286, 2021.
J. Streets, Y. Ustinovskiy, “Classification of generalized Kähler-Ricci solitons on complex surfaces” (opens in new tab), Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. LXXIV, pp. 1896-1914, 2021.
V. Apostolov, J. Streets, “The nondegenerate generalized Kähler Calabi-Yau problem” (opens in new tab), Journal Fur Die Reine Und Angewandte Mathematik, vol. 777, pp. 1-48, 2021.

Most Cited Publications

J. Streets, G. Tian, “A parabolic flow of pluriclosed metrics” (opens in new tab), International Mathematics Research Notices, vol. 2010, no. 16, pp. 3101-3133, 2010.
J. Streets, G. Tian, “Hermitian curvature flow” (opens in new tab), Journal of the European Mathematical Society, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 601-634, 2011.
J. Streets, G. Tian, “Regularity results for pluriclosed flow” (opens in new tab), Geometry and Topology, vol. 17, pp. 2389-2429, 2013.
J. Streets, G. Tian, “Generalized Kähler geometry and the pluriclosed flow” (opens in new tab), Nuclear Physics B, vol. 858, no. 2, pp. 366-376, 2012.
J. Streets, “Regularity and expanding entropy for connection Ricci flow” (opens in new tab), Journal of Geometry and Physics, vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 900-912, 2008.
S. Lan, J. Streets, B. Shahbaba, “Wormhole Hamiltonian Monte Carlo”, Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 3, pp. 1953-1959, 2014. Presented at AAAI 2014.
J. Streets, “Classification of solitons for pluriclosed flow on complex surfaces” (opens in new tab), Mathematische Annalen, vol. 375, pp. 1555-1595, 2019.
J. Streets, “Generalized geometry, T-duality, and renormalization group flow” (opens in new tab), Journal of Geometry and Physics, vol. 114, pp. 506-522, 2017.
J. Streets, “Pluriclosed flow, Born-Infeld geometry, and rigidity results for generalized Kähler manifolds” (opens in new tab), Communications in Partial Differential Equations, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 318-374, 2016.
J. Streets, “Long time existence of minimizing movement solutions of Calabi flow” (opens in new tab), Advances in Mathematics, vol. 259, pp. 688-729, 2014.

Contact Information

Website: https://www.math.uci.edu/~jstreets

Email: jstreets@uci.edu

Address: 440C Rowland Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-3875

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Last updated on 10/2/2026.