I'm an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2009-2010, I'm also a Helen Corley Petit Scholar in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Illinois. 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. 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. ``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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