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Curriculum Vitae ARTAN SHESHMANI Office Address, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Room 2-247 182 Memorial drive, Cambridge, MA, 02139 Office Phone, +1 (614) 565-1659 Homepages, https://people.math.osu.edu/sheshmani.1/Welcome.html http://db.ipmu.jp/member/personal/2970en.html Date of CV, August 2015 Research interests Algebraic Geometry, Enumerative Geometry (Gromov-Witten theory, Donaldson-Thomas theory) Mirror symmetry, Mathematics of String theory Employment 2016 { Visiting Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MA 2015 { Project researcher (Adjunct Assistant Professor), Kavli IPMU 2013 { Zassenhaus Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University 2012 { 2013 Member, Max Planck Institut f¨urMathematik 2011 { 2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia (Mentors, Jim Bryan and Kai Behrend) 2010 { 2011 Postdoctoral research affiliate Member at Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cam- bridge (Mentor, Richard Thomas) 2006 { 2010 Research and Teaching assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Visiting positions 2016 (Jun { Jul) Member, Institut Henri Pinar´e,Paris, France 2015 (Apr { May) Senior Visiting Fellow, Mathematics Institute at University of Warwick, UK 2013 (May { May) Visiting Scientist, Erwin Schr¨odingerInt. Inst. Math. Phys., Austria 2009 (Jan { May) Visiting Graduate Student, MSRI, Berkeley, CA 2008 (Mar { Mar) Visiting Graduate Student, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, NJ 2007 (Nov { Nov) Visiting Graduate Student, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, NJ Education 2011 Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA (Advisors: Sheldon Katz and Tom Nevins) 2008 M.Sc. Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA 2004 M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IRAN 2003 B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IRAN 2003 B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IRAN 1999 Diploma Mathematics and Physics, National Organization of Development of Exceptional Tal- ents (NODET), Tabriz, IRAN, Scientific/Academic honors and awards 2009 , 2010 James D. Hogan and university of Illinois Fellowships 2010 University of Illinois Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2009 David G. Bourgin Fellowship ARTAN SHESHMANI CURRICULUM VITAE 2 2009 Phi Kappa Phi national honor society 2007 , 2009 R.E.G.S 2 Fellowship 2006 , 2008 Department of Mathematics internal Fellowship 2006 { 2009 Outstanding instructor at the University of Illinois (4 consecutive years) 2006 { 2010 NSF graduate student travel awards (5 consecutive years) 2004 Ranked 1'st place in M.Sc. level in M.E. 2003 Brilliant talent award by IRAN's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. M.Sc. entrance without nationwide exam 2003 Ranked 3'rd place in B.Sc. level (out of 152) in M.E. 2000 Brilliant talent award by IRAN's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Per- mission to double major in M.E. and C.E. 1999 Ranked 61'st place in IRAN's nationwide university entrance exam among 500000+ participants Publications Submitted and under review papers 5. Vertical D4-D2-D0 bound states on K3 fibrations and modularity, (with Vincent Bouchard, Thomas Creutzig, Emanuel Diaconescu, Charles Doran, Callum Quigley), 54 pages, (2016), arXiv: 1601.04030. 4. Equivariant Gromov-Witten Invariants of Algebraic GKM Manifolds, (with Melissa Liu), 22 pages, Under review, arXiv:1407.1370. 3. Stable pairs on nodal K3 fibrations, (with Amin Gholampour and Yukinobu Toda), 29 pages, Under review, arXiv:1308.4722. 2. Donaldson-Thomas Invariants of 2-Dimensional sheaves inside threefolds and modular forms, (with Amin Gholampour), 49 pages, Under review, arXiv:1309.0050. 1. Direct calculation of higher rank invariants of stable pairs using the Joyce machinery of stack functions, 49 pages, Under review, arXiv:1107.0295. Published and accepted papers 13. Intersection numbers on the relative Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces, (with Amin Gholampour), 11 pages, Asian J. Math., To Appear (2016), arXiv:1504.01107. 12. Wall-crossing and invariants of higher rank stable pairs, 31 pages, Illinois J. Math., Vol 59, 1, 55-83 (2016), arXiv:1101.2252. 11. Higher rank stable pairs and virtual localization, 40 pages, Comm. Anal. Geom., Vol 24, 1 (2015), arXiv:1011.6342. 2 10. Generalized Donaldson-Thomas Invariants of 2-Dimensional sheaves on local P , (with Amin Gholampour), 29 pages, Adv. Theor. Math. Phys., Volume 19, Number 3, 673-699 (2015), arXiv:1309.0056. ARTAN SHESHMANI CURRICULUM VITAE 3 9. Counting curves on surfaces in Calabi-Yau threefolds, (with Amin Gholampour and Richard P. Thomas), 10 pages, Math. Annalen , Volume 360, Issue 1-2, pp 67-78 (2014), arXiv:1309.0051. 8. Introduction to higher rank theory of stable pairs, 11 pages, AMS Proc. Symp. Pure Math. Vol 85, Amer. Math. Soc. (2012), arXiv:1210.4202. 7. Towards studying the higher rank Pandharipande-Thomas theory of stable pairs, 207 pages. Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2011). 209 pp. ISBN, 978- 1267-16462-9. 6. Structure and Dynamics of Neutrally Buoyant Rigid Sphere Interacting with Thin Vortex Rings, (with Banavara Shashikanth, Scott David Kelly and Wei Mingjun), 18 pages, J. Math. F. Mech. Vol 12, Issue 3, 335-353, Birkh¨auser-Verlag. (2008). 5. Hamiltonian structure and dynamics of a neutrally buoyant rigid sphere interacting with thin vortex rings, 18 pages, Proc. ECI conf. inter. Trans. Phen. V, F., Therm., Bio., Mat. Space Sci. (2007). 4. Hamiltonian structure for a neutrally buoyant rigid body interacting with N vor- tex rings of arbitrary shape, the case of arbitrary smooth body shape, (with Banavara Shashikanth, Scott David Kelly and Jerrold Marsden), 28 pages. Theor. Comput. F. Dyn. Vol 22 Issue 1, 37-64. (2006). 3. Objectivity of rates of deformation tensors in nonlinear continuum mechanics,(with Reza Naghdabadi), Proc. ASME Conf. (2004). 2. General derivation for conjugate strains of Eshelby-like stress tensors,(with Kambiz Be- hfar and Reza Naghdabadi), Proc. ASME (2004). 1. A thermo elastic solution for functionally graded beams using stress function, (with Mohsen Asghari), Proc. ICCES Conf. (2004). Work in preparation 3. Wallcrossing of stable pairs and torsion sheaf invariants over Quintic threefold, (with Amin Gholampour, Davesh Maulik, Yukinobu Toda and Richard Thomas), 17 pages, In preparation. 2. Global Heterotic/F-theory duals with Wilson line symmetry breaking surfaces, (with Herb Clemens, Stuart Raby and Tony Pantev), 52 pages, In preparation. 1. DT invariants of Linear systems in threefolds and modularity, (with Amin Gholampour), 10 pages, In preparation. Selected invited talks 2016 Apr. Oberwolfach, Germany (MFO), Conference on Moduli Spaces and Modular forms || Feb. Piscataway, New Jersey (Rutgers U.), Geometry, Symmetry and Physics Seminar || Feb. Cambridge, Massachusetts (Harvard), (SMCA), Mathematical Physics Seminar || Jan. Aarhus, Denmark (Center for Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces), Seminar (QGM) 2015 Dec. Seoul, Korea (KIAS), Algebraic Geometry lectures I,II,III,IV ARTAN SHESHMANI CURRICULUM VITAE 4 || Dec. Clear Water bay, Hong Kong (HKUST), Algebraic Geometry lectures I,II,III || Nov. Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo U.), Algebraic Geometry Seminar || Oct. Luminy, France (CIRM), Conference on Moduli Spaces in Geometry || Oct. Kyoto, Japan (Kyoto U.), Algebraic Geometry Seminar || Oct. Tokyo, Japan (Kavli IPMU), GTM seminar || July Salt lake city, Utah (U. Utah), AMS Algebraic Geometry Mega Conference || Apr. Oxford, UK (Mathematical Institute), Derived categories and applications symposium || Apr. Warwick, UK (Mathematics Institute), Algebraic Geometry seminar || Mar. Urbana, Illinois (UIUC), Algebraic Geometry Seminar || Feb. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (UPenn), Math-Physics Joint Seminar || Feb. Columbus, Ohio (OSU), Representations and Lie theory Seminar || Feb. Columbus, Ohio (OSU), Algebraic Geometry Seminar 2013 Oct. New York City, New York (Columbia U.), Gromov-Witten Theory Seminar || Sept Urbana, Illinois (UIUC), Algebraic Geometry Seminar || June Trieste, Italy (SISSA), Conference on Hilbert schemes, sheaves and representations || May Vienna, Austria (Erwin Schr¨odingerInternational Institute for Mathematical Physics), Con- ference on Birational Geometry and Geometric Invariant Theory || May Bonn, Germany (Max Planck Inst.), Seminar on Algebra, Geometry and Physics || Apr. Zurich, Switzerland ( Institut f¨urMathemathik, U. Zurich), Algebraische Geometrie || Feb. Zurich, Switzerland (ETH), Seminar on Algebraic Geometry and Moduli || Feb. Tokyo, Japan (Kavli IPMU), Seminar on Derived category, McKay correspondence and Mirror symmetry 2012 Dec. Piscataway, New Jersey (Rutgers U.), Geometry, Symmetry and Physics Seminar || Dec. College Park, Maryland (U. Maryland), Seminar on Algebra and number theory || Oct. Paris, France (Ecole´ Normale Sup´erieure),Darboux Seminar || Oct. Warwick, UK (Mathematics Institute, U. Warwick), Conference on Homological Projective Duality and Noncommutative Geometry || July Bonn, Germany (Hausdorff center for Mathematics), String-Math 2012 2011 Nov. Cambridge, Massachusetts (Harvard), Harvard/MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar || Nov. Palo Alto, California (Stanford U.), Algebraic Geometry Seminar || Nov. Berkeley, California (UC Berkeley), Rep. Theory/Geometry/Combinatorics Seminar || June Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Upenn), String Math 2011 || Apr. Warwick, UK (Mathematical Institute, U.