Curriculum Vitae of Vladlen Timorin Personal Information: • Date of Birth

Curriculum Vitae of Vladlen Timorin Personal Information: • Date of birth: June 21, 1978 • Place of birth: Moscow, Russia • Family status: married, 1 child • Citizenship: Russia

Current Position: Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics, Moscow (since Fall 2009)

Positions previously held: • Post-Doc at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany (2007–2009) • Lecturer (Post-Doc) at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, SUNY at Stony Brook (2004–2007)

Research Interests: • Complex dynamics, dynamics of rational functions. • Quadratic forms. • Projective diﬀerential geometry of curves. • Geometry and combinatorics of convex polytopes.

Education: 2004, PhD: University of Toronto, Department of Mathematics, ”Rectiﬁable families of conics”, Advisor: Askold Khovanskii 2003, PhD: Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, ”Combinatorial Analogues of the Cohomology Algebras for Convex Polytopes” 2000, Diploma: Moscow State University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, ”An analog of the Hard Lefschetz theorem for polytopes simple in edges” 2000, Diploma: Independent University of Moscow, ”Small resolutions of polytopes and the generalized h-vector”

Mathematical Honors and Awards: • M¨obiusPrize, http://www.moebiuscontest.ru • Ontario Graduate Scholarship • Connaught Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto

Published research papers:

(1) The external boundary of M2, Fields Institute Communications Vol. 53: “Holomorphic Dynamics and Renormalization, A Volume in Honour of John Milnor’s 75th Birthday”, 225–267 (2) Rectifiable pencils of conics, Moscow Mathematical Journal 7 (2007), no. 3, 561–570 (3) On binary quadratic forms with semigroup property, (joint with Francesca Aicardi), Pro- ceedings of Steklov Institute 258 (2007), the volume dedicated to the 70th birthday of V. Arnold (4) Maps That Take Lines To Circles, in Dimension 4, Functional Analysis and its Applica- tions 40 (2006), no. 2, 108–116, (5) Circles and quadratic maps between spheres, Geometriae Dedicata 115 (2005), pp. 19–32, (6) Circles and Clifford algebras, Functional Analysis and its Applications, 38 (2004), No. 1, 45–51, (7) Kählermetrics whose geodesics are circles, Proceedings of the Conference “Fundamental Mathematics Today”, Ed. S.K. Lando and O.K. Sheinman, pp. 284–293 1 (8) Rectification of circles and quaternions, Michigan Mathematical Journal, 51 (2003), 153– 167 (9) On polytopes that are simple at the edges, Functional Analysis and its Applications, 35, No. 3 (2001), 189–198 (10) An analogue of the Hodge-Riemann relations for simple polytopes, Russian Mathematical Surveys, 54, No.2 (1999), 381–426 (11) Mixed Hodge-Riemann relations in linear context, Functional Analysis and its Applications, 32, No. 4 (1999), 268–272

Preprints:

(1) Topological regluing of holomorphic functions, to appear in Inventiones Mathematicae (2) Moore’s theorem. (3) Powerful facets (joint with Dusa McDuﬀ and Susan Tolman), an Appendix to Polytopes with mass linear functions, part I, by D. McDuﬀ and S. Tolman (4) On partial semi-conjugacies of quadratic polynomials, (5) Variations on the Tait-Kneser theorem (joint with Sergei Tabachnikov),

Books and popular articles:

(1) Book: Quadratic arithmetic in problems (joint with F. Aicardi), in preparation (2) Sylvester’s problem [in Russian] (joint with S. Tabachnikov), to appear in Kvant. (3) Arithmetic triangles [in Russian], Kvant, 6 (2008) (4) Quadratic mathematics [in Russian], draft of a short book based on lecture notes from a Summer School in Dubna. (5) Book: Combinatorics of Convex Polytopes [in Russian], MCCME Moscow, 2002

Research grants: “Combinatorics and dynamics of rational functions” (joint with D. Schleicher and Y. Mikulich), DFG grant SCHL-670/2-1 (2009 - )

2 Selected lectures: 2009 June Conference “Advances in Low-Dimensional dynamics”, Stony Brook April Marburg University Boston University January Institut Henry Poincaré,Paris 2008 October Workshop “Trends and Developments in Complex Dynamics”, Oberwolfach June Second Canada–France congress, Montreal February Mini-conference on dynamical systems, Hamburg 2007 November Conference of winners of the Moebius prize, Moscow October Workshop on symbolic dynamics, Soeminestationen, Denmark June University of Liverpool November University of Liverpool May Workshop on complex dynamics, Zacatecas, Mexico 2006 October Pennsylvania State University July Conference “Differential equations, dynamical systems and singularity theory”, Suzdal June Conference “Low-dimensional mathematics”, St. Peterburg June Dynamical systems seminar, Moscow May University of Chicago April University of Toronto, Fields Institute, Toronto 2005 September University of Massachusetts at Amherst June The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste June Gauss-Dirichlet conference, Goettingen April Pennsylvania State University 2003 December Conference ”Hilbert 16”, IUM - Moscow June St. Petersburg Mathematical Society Seminar on Low-Dimensional Mathematics, St. Petersburg April Workshop ”Theory of Webs and Differential Equations”, Luminy, Marseille 2002 December Winter meeting of Canadian Mathematical Society, Ottawa 2001 December Conference ”Fundamental Mathematics Today”, IUM - Moscow December Winter meeting of Canadian Mathematical Society, Toronto 2000 April Conference of young mathematicians, Moscow 1998 November Moscow Mathematical Society Teaching: 2008/2009: General mathematics and computational science II, Multivariable calculus and ODE (Jacobs University Bremen) 2007/2008: Linear algebra and stochastic processes; Perspectives in mathematics, General mathematics and Computational Science (Jacobs University Bremen) 2006/2007: Problem Solving in Mathematics, Graduate Problem Seminar, Undergraduate research project, Putnam training sessions (SUNY at Stony Brook) 2005/2006: Calculus III: Vector Calculus, Geometric Structures (geometry for prospective high school teachers), Putnam training sessions (SUNY at Stony Brook); Quadratic Math- ematics (Dubna summer school) 2004/2005: Graduate Topology, Graduate Topology and Differential Geometry (SUNY at Stony Brook) 2001: Convex Polytopes (Dubna summer school) 1999/2000: Convex bodies and convex polytopes (IUM)

Service: 2009: organizer: Geometry and Dynamics seminar, Jacobs University Bremen 3 2007–2008: mini-courses on dynamics, Math Battles, Jacobs University Bremen 2006–2007: Dynamical Systems Seminar, Putnam training, SUNY at Stony Brook 2004–2006: IMS preprint series, SUNY at Stony Brook 2005–2007: Problem of the Month, SUNY at Stony Brook 2000–2001 and 2003: Geometry Seminar, University of Toronto 1997: Team supervisor, International Conference for high-school students, Izmir, Turkey 1996: Team supervisor, International Olympiad for high-school students, Ankara, Turkey 1995–1999: Member of the Organization Committee, International Conference for gifted high-school students, Chernogolovka, Russia