Northeastern University 567 Lake Hall 360 Hungtington Avenue Boston, MA, 02115 H +1-857-928-2234 Andrea Appel B [email protected] Í mathserver.neu.edu/ aappel Curriculum Vitae Skype: andrea_appel Personal Information First Name Andrea Last Name Appel Date of Birth 07/14/1984 Nationality Italy Research Interests Representation Theory, Category Theory, Generalized Braid Groups, Quantum Affine Al- gebras, Braided Monoidal Categories, quasi-Hopf Algebras, quasi-Coxeter Algebras. (Future) Appointments Jan. 2014 - Aug. (NTT) Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. 2016 Aug. - Dec. 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Visiting Positions June-July 2015 IHES, Paris, France. June-Aug. 2014 Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Jerusalem, Israel. Education Ph.D. in Mathematics June 2013 Northeastern University, Boston, Thesis title: Monodromy theorems in the affine setting. (expected) Advisor: Prof. V. Toledano Laredo M.Sc. in Mathematics July 2008 University of Rome La Sapienza, Thesis title: Triangulated categories and perverse sheaves. Advisor: Prof. C. De Concini B.Sc. in Mathematics July 2006 University of Rome La Sapienza, Thesis title: About p-groups.. Advisor: Prof. M.J. de Resmini Visiting Scholar Sept.-Dec. 2012 Columbia University, New York, NY. June, 2012 ETH, Forschungsinstitut Für Mathematik, Zurich, Switzerland. Fellowships and Awards Spring 2013 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Northeastern University. 2009 - 2012 Research Assistantship, Northeastern University. 26 months between Sept. 2009 and Aug. 2012 Flat Connections, Irregular Singularities and Quantum Groups, NSF Grant DMS- 0707212, Principal Investigator: Valerio Toledano Laredo. Quantum Cohomology, Quantized Algebraic Varieties, and Representation Theory, NSF Grant DMS-0854792., Principal Investigator: Valerio Toledano Laredo. May-June, 2011 Ling-Ma Fellowship, Northeastern University. 2008-present Teaching Assistantship, Northeastern University. 2008-present University Excellence Fellowship, Northeastern University. Feb-Aug, 2007 Erasmus Fellowship, Universitè de Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. 2006 Graduation Award, Guido Castelnuovo, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy. Teaching Experience Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant, MATH2331-Linear Algebra, Northeastern University. Fall 2012 Teaching Assistant, MATH3175-Group Theory, Northeastern University. Spring 2012 Teaching Assistant, MATH2331-Linear Algebra, Northeastern University. Spring 2011 Instructor, MATH1215-Mathematical Thinking, Northeastern University. Spring 2011 Instructor, MATH1216-Recitation for MATH1215, Northeastern University. Spring 2010 Teaching Assistant, MATH2331-Linear Algebra, Northeastern University. Spring 2009 Instructor, MTHU241-Calculus I for Science and Engineering, Northeastern University. Fall 2008 Instructor, MTHU342-Recitation for MTHU341 Calculus III, Northeastern University. July 2010 Instructor, Remedial Courses in Mathematics and Physics, L.G.S. Aristofane, Roma, Italy. Publications Submitted on A. Appel, V. Toledano Laredo, Quasi–Coxeter categories and a relative Etingof–Kazhdan arxiv.org quantization functor. Dec. 30th 2012 Available at arXiv:1212.6720 in preparation A. Appel, V. Toledano Laredo, A rigidity theorem for quasi–Coxeter quasitriangular quasibialgebra structure on affine Kac–Moody algebras. Preliminary version available at www.math.neu.edu/aappel/Andrea_Appel/Preliminary.html in preparation A. Appel, V. Toledano Laredo, Monodromy theorems in the affine setting. Academic Activities 2011-2012 Coorganizer, Graduate Student Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Northeastern U. 2011-2012 President and Cofounder, Mathematics Graduate Student Association, Northeastern U. Spring 2012 Member, Outstanding Graduate Student Awards Committee, Northeastern University. 2008-present Member, American Mathematical Society. Selected Talks March 2013 Quasi-Coxeter categories, Graduate Seminar, Northeastern University Dec. 2011 Quantization of Lie bialgebras, Incontro Natalizio, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma La Sapienza Feb. 2011 Tensor Categories and Tannaka-Krein duality, Graduate Student Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University Schools and Workshops May 14-26, 2012 Spring School in Microlocal Analysis. Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. Sept. 16-20, Workshop on equivariant quantum differential equations. Columbia University, New York, 2011 NY. June 20 - July 2, School on D-modules and applications in Singularity Theory. Mathematical Research In- 2011 stitute of the University of Sevilla, Sevilla, and Mathematical Sciences Institute of CSIC, Madrid, Spain. May 21-22, 2011 Workshop on Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and their Representations. University of California, Riverside, CA. May 25-29, 2010 NSF/CBMS conference on Quiver varieties and crystal bases of quantum affine algebras. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. July 26 - Aug. 1, Summer School on Geometry of Representations. Cologne, Germany. 2009 Language Skills English Proficient French Fluent Italian Native Computer Skills OS Windows, Mac OS, Linux Text Editor LATEX Programming C, C++, Fortran, Unix Computing Matlab, Mathematica Software Microsoft Office (ECDL) Microsoft.