Research interests
Geometric group theory and related subjects: hyperbolic groups, various (co)homology
of groups, bounded cohomology, the Hanna Neumann conjecture and its generalizations, the Atiyah problem, CAT(0)- and CAT(-1)-spaces,
group actions on metric spaces, metric conformal structures, 3-manifolds, ...
Grants
- NSF CAREER Award, DMS 0228910, 2002-2008.
- NSF research grant DMS 0706876, 2008-2011.
- NSF grant DMS 0737851. Support for G3 conference, 2007-2011.
- NSF grant DMS 1104098. Support for G3 conference, 2011-2013.
- NSF research grant DMS 1206472, 2012-2015.
Approved by INS
I am happy to announce that I was qualified by (now non-existing) INS as
an Outstanding Professor and Researcher.
Essential skills
- I can compose and sing songs in Russian playing guitar
at the same time.
- I can lie on the couch and concentrate on the ceiling
for many hours without falling asleep.
Inverse scientific biography
(with non-empty intersections)
- June 2007 - now:
- Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- April-July 2012:
- Visiting RIMS, Kyoto, Japan.
- December 2011-March 2012:
- A member of Max-Planck-Institut, Bonn, Germany.
- September-November 2011:
- Visiting MSRI, Berkeley, CA.
- June 2002 - 2007
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- 2003-2004:
- A member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
- June-August 2003:
- A member of Max-Planck-Institut, Bonn, Germany.
- June-July 2002:
- Visiting MSRI, Berkeley, CA.
- Aug 1999 - May 2002:
- Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
and Statistics, University of South Alabama.
- Sept 1998 - Aug 99 (except January):
- Grant holder in Max-Planck-Institut
für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany.
- January 1999:
- Visiting I.H.É.S., Paris, France.
- 1993-98:
- Graduate student
and Teaching Fellow, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.
Ph.D. received in June 1998.
Scientific advisor: Stephen M. Gersten.
Thesis title: Exotic homology theories and geometry
of groups.
- 1986-87 and 1989-93:
- A student in the Department of Mathematics,
Novosibirsk State Univ., Russia.
Scientific advisor: V. N. Gerasimov.
Diploma of Higher Education with Honors received in June 1992.
My GPA was 5.0 if you know what I mean.
- 1984-86:
- Specialized Physics-Mathematics School,
Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia.
- Before 1984:
- Diplomas for olympiads in physics and mathematics.
Two mathematical schools by correspondence.
First love. Mathematics.
Teaching experience
- 1993-1998:
- a whole bunch of undergraduate courses, University of Utah.
- 1999-2002 :
- analogously, University of South Alabama.
- 2002-...
- still quite a few, graduate and undergraduate, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Organizer of
- G3 conference in Pensacola, Florida, April 5-8, 2012.
- G3 conference in Panama City, Florida, March 24-27, 2011.
- G3 conference in Pensacola, Florida, March 25-28, 2010.
- G3 conference in South Padre, Texas, April 2-5, 2009.
- G3 conference in Pensacola, Florida, March 20-23, 2008.
- G3 conference in New Orleans, LA, January 9-12, 2007.
- G3 conference in Mobile, Alabama, March 16-19, 2006.
- G3 conference in Destin, FL, November 11-14, 2004.
- G3 conference in Mobile, Alabama, February 5-8, 2004.
- G3 conference
in Pensacola, FL, November 8-10, 2002. I organized the fishing too.
- G3 conference in New Orleans, March 15-17, 2002.
- Special Session Geometric Group Theory of the AMS meeting
in New Orleans, LA, January 10-13, 2001.
- G3 = Geometric Groups on the Gulf coast conference,
Mobile, Alabama, March 4-5, 2000.
- Seminar on Geometric Group Theory,
University of South Alabama, 1999-2000.
- Max Dehn seminar on Geometric Group Theory,
University of Utah, 1997-98.
Plans, ideas, dreams, projects,
and prospects.
- Unfortunately, this homepage is too little to accommodate
all of my ideas. I keep producing (and forgetting) them
very fast. At present I am thinking
of proving... Let's see... Wait a sec... I'll check my notes
and write it here later.
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