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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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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