I'm an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I received my PhD from the University of Chicago in June 2000, under the direction of Kevin Corlette. In 2000--2004 I was an assistant professor and NSF postdoctoral fellow at Michigan with Bill Fulton as my NSF supervisor. In spring 2002 I visited MSRI as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2007-2008 I was a Beckman Fellow in UIUC's Center for Advanced Study. Click here for some rudimentary information on the department's espresso machine. This semester I'm teaching a graduate course (Math 595) on D-modules and Beilinson-Bernstein localization. I also plan to give a series of very informal lectures, roughly once per week, on "Basics of Hecke algebras." These Hecke lectures are intended to explain, very much from an algebraic geometer's perspective, some of the context for the Kazhdan-Lusztig conjectures (the main application to be covered in the course). We are running a working seminar on the Fundamental Lemma. You can find a little bit of information here. Click here for the Workshop on D-Bundles and Integrable Hierarchies in Ann Arbor (May, 2007, devoted to my paper with Ben-Zvi with the same title). In December, 2008 I was an NAS-Cinvestav Lecturer in Mexico City. In March, 2009, David Ben-Zvi and I organized a session of the AMS sectional meeting on Algebraic Geometry, Representation Theory, and Topological Field Theories. Notes are here. In 2009-2010, I'll be a Helen Corley Petit Scholar in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Illinois. ``The motivation for a physicist to study 1-dimensional problems is best illustrated by the story of the man who, returning home late at night after an alcoholic evening, was scanning the ground for his key under a lamppost; he knew, to be sure, that he had dropped it somewhere else, but only under the lamppost was there enough light to conduct a proper search." --F. Calogero Click here for the on-line repository of mathematics, i.e. BZ's notes page. Click here to access my mathematical genealogy. Students: start clicking on "advisor" and trace it back to Leibniz! |
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Dept. of Mathematics
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