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Employment
Associate professor |
since September 2010 |
Faculty of Mathematics, Higher School of Economics, Moscow |
Senior researcher |
since 2009 |
Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow |
Postdoctoral fellow |
2008-2009 |
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn |
Postdoctoral fellow |
2007-2008 |
Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn |
James H. Simons Instructor (postdoc) |
2004-2007
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Stony Brook University
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Visiting positions
Guest professor |
winter 2010 |
Freie Universitaet Berlin |
Lecturer |
fall 2009 |
Independent University of Moscow |
Lecturer |
fall 2007, fall 2008 |
Jacobs University Bremen |
Education
PhD |
June, 2004
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University of Toronto
Thesis "A Gauss-Bonnet theorem, Chern classes and an adjunction formula for reductive groups"
Thesis advisor Askold Khovanskii, coadvisor Mikhail Kapranov
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Diploma |
April, 2001 |
Independent University of Moscow
Diploma "The monodromy group of generalized hypergeometric equations"
Diploma advisor Askold Khovanskii |
Mathematical awards
Grants
2013 |
President of the RF grant MK-983.2013.1, ``Polytopes, algebraic torus actions and automorphism groups'' |
2010 |
RFBR grant 10-01-00540-a, ``Newton polytopes and cohomology of spherical varieties'' |
Selected presentations
2014 | August | Seoul ICM 2014 Satellite Conference on Topology of Torus Actions and Applications to Geometry and Combinatorics, Daejeon, Korea |
| May | Oberwolfach mini-workshop on Okounkov bodies and applicationa, Oberwolfach, Germany |
| April | IMPANGA and SMUGA, IMPAN, Warsaw |
| March | Seminar "Riemann surfaces, Lie algebras and Mathematical physics", Independent University of Moscow |
| February | BIRS workshop on Okounkov bodies and representation theory, Banff, Canada |
2013 | November | Seminar of the Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry and its Applications, HSE, Moscow |
| April | Algebra and Geometry Seminar, University of Toronto |
| March | Algebra Seminar, University of Ottawa |
| February | Seminar "Globus" (Globe), Independent University of Moscow |
| February | Mathematical Winter School for students, Golitsyno |
| January | Christmas meetings with Deligne |
2012 | October | Banff workshop on Lie algebras, torsors and cohomological invariants, Banff, Canada |
| July | The 5th MSJ-SI Schubert calculus, Osaka, Japan |
| April | Oberwolfach workshop on toric geometry, Oberwolfach, Germany |
| May | Seminar "Riemann surfaces, Lie algebras and Mathematical physics", Independent University of Moscow |
| May | Mathematical Spring School for students, Sevastopol |
| March | Algebraic Topology Seminar, Moscow State University |
| February | Seminar "Characteristic classes and intersection theory", HSE, Moscow |
| February | Seminar "Geometry, topology and mathematical physics", Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow |
| February | Mathematical Winter School for students, Klyaz'ma |
| January | Christmas meetings with Deligne |
2011 | November | Lie Groups and Invariant Theory Seminar, Moscow State University |
| August | Oberwolfach mini-workshop on Newton-Okounkov bodies, Oberwolfach, Germany |
| April | Seminar "Riemann surfaces, Lie algebras and Mathematical physics", Independent University of Moscow |
| February | Seminar of the Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry and its Applications, HSE, Moscow |
| January | Mathematical Winter School for students, Golitsyno |
| January | Christmas meetings with Deligne |
2010 | November | V.I. Arnold seminar, Moscow State University |
| October | Moscow Mathematical Society meeting |
| August | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India |
| August | ICM2010 Satellite conference on Complex Geometry, Group actions and Moduli spaces, Hyderabad, India |
| April | Oberwolfach workshop on algebraic groups, Oberwolfach, Germany |
2009 | November | Algebra Seminar, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow |
| November | Seminar on Homology and Homotopy Methods in Geometry,
Higher School of Economics, Moscow |
| October | Lie Groups and Invariant Theory Seminar, Moscow State University |
| October | Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Seminar,
Institute of Information Transmission Problems, Moscow |
| July | Topics in Topology, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn |
| May | Representation Theory Seminar, University of Bonn |
| February | Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn |
| January | Representation Theory Seminar, University of Cologne |
| January | Oberwolfach workshop on toric geometry, Oberwolfach, Germany |
2008 | April | Representation Theory Seminar in the University of Bonn |
| February | Algebra and Lie Theory Seminar in Jacobs University Bremen |
| January | Workshop on moduli spaces and tropical geometry, Bonn-Dusseldorf-Essen |
2007 | December | International Conference on Transformation Groups, Moscow, Russia |
| December | Algebra and Geometry Seminar in the University of Rome "La Sapienza" |
| September | Banff workshop on Group Embeddings and Representation Theory, Banff, Canada
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2006 | July | International conference on dynamical systems,
differential equations and singularity theory, Suzdal', Russia |
| April | Algebra, Geometry and Physics Seminar
at Stony Brook University |
| March | Algebra and Geometry Seminar at the University
of Toronto |
2005 | March | Algebraic Geometry Seminar at Columbia University
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2004 | February | Geometry, Symmetry and Physics Seminar
at Yale University |
2003 | October | Geometry Seminar, University of Toronto |
2002 | December | Winter meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society, Ottawa |
| November | Representation Theory Seminar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Teaching
summer 2011
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Summer school "Contemporary Mathematics", Dubna
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course: "Schubert calculus and 3264 conics"
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2010-2011 | Faculty of Mathematics, Higher School of Economics |
| course: Analysis II |
winter 2010 | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| course: Spherical Varieties
(graduate topics mini-course) |
fall 2009 | Independent University of Moscow |
| course: Geometry of Spherical Varieties
(topics course) |
2008-2009 | Jacobs University Bremen |
| courses: Introductory Algebra, Geometry of Flag Varieties
(graduate topics mini-course) |
2007-2008 | Jacobs University Bremen |
| courses: Perspectives of Mathematics, Intersection
Theory (graduate topics mini-course) |
2006-2007
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Stony Brook University
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courses: Intro to Lie groups and algebras (graduate topics course), Mathematical Thinking
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2005-2006
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Stony Brook University
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courses: Algebra (graduate core course), Applied Algebra
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summer 2005
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Summer school "Contemporary Mathematics" for first year
university students and last
year high school students, Dubna
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course: "Constructions using compass and ruler, and Galois theory"
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2004-2005
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Stony Brook University
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courses: Linear Algebra, Applied Complex Analysis
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2001-2002
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University of Toronto
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courses: Teaching Assistant for Differential Equations (for engineers), Advanced Differential Equations, Vector Calculus,
Geometry
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summer 2002
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Summer school "Contemporary Mathematics", Dubna
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course: "Lobachevsky geometry"
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1997-2001 | Teacher of mathematics at High School # 57, Moscow |
Service
| Referee for the Journal of Algebra, Journal of Lie Theory, Amer. Math. Monthly |
2010-2011 | Student Seminar on Symmetric functions, Grassmannians and Flags at the Faculty of Mathematics, Higher School of Economics |
2008-2009 | Algebra and Lie Theory Seminar at Jacobs University Bremen |
fall 2005, 2006
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Preparation sessions for the Putnam competition at Stony Brook University
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2005-2007
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Problem of the Month competition at Stony Brook University
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2005-2006
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WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) workshop at Stony Brook University
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2002 | Jury member, Math Battles for high school students in Toronto |
1996-2001 | Assistant, Organization of the annual Moscow Mathematical Olympiad for high school
students |