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Maryam Mirzakhani
General
Information
Born: May 1977, Tehran, Iran.
Citizenship: Iranian
Education Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ph.D. in Mathematics, expected graduation: June 2004.
Thesis Advisor: Curtis T. McMullen.
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
B.S. in Mathematics, 1999.
Research
Interests
Teichm¨uller theory, Hyperbolic geometry, Ergodic theory, Symplectic geometry
Papers/
Publications
Growth of the number of simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. Preprint, 2003.
Simple geodesics and the Weil-Petersson of Moduli spaces of bordered
Riemann surfaces. Preprint, 2003.
Weil-Petersson volumes and the Witten-Kontsevich formula. Preprint, 2003.
Ergodic theory of the earthquake flow. In preparation.
A simple proof of a theorem of Schur. Amer. Math. Monthly 105 (1998 no. 3,
260–262.
A small non-4-choosable planar graph. Bull. Inst. Combin. Appl. 17 (1996), 15–18.
Decomposition of complete tripartite graphs into 5-cycles. In combinatorics advances,
pages 235-241. Math. Appl., Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrecht, 1995.
Elementary number theory, challenging problems (Farsi), Roya Beheshti,
Maryam Mirzakhani, Fatemi Publishers, Tehran, Iran, 1999.
Recent talks
Wasatch Topology Conference,University of Utah
Spring 2004
Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Spring 2004
Berkeley-Stanford Joint Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Spring 2004
Fellowship of the Ring, Brandeis University
Spring 2004
Geometry Seminar, Boston University
Spring 2004
Geometry Seminar, Rice University
Spring 2004
Conference on Teichmuller space and moduli space, University of Illinois at Chicago
Fall 2003
Geometry Seminar, University of Chicago
Fall 2003
Topology Seminar, Yale University, Fall 2003
Geometry, Representation Theory, and Moduli Seminar, Princeton University,
Fall 2003
,
Ergodic Theory and Statistical Analysis Seminar, Princeton University,
Fall 2003
,
Geometry seminar, Indiana University, Spring 2003.
Geometry seminar, Brown University, Spring 2003.
Awards /
Honors
Clay Mathematics Institute Research Fellow
2004-
Harvard Junior Fellowship
Harvard University, 2003.
Merit fellowship
Harvard University, 2003.
IPM Fellowship
The Institute for theoretical Physics and Mathematics,
Tehran, Iran, 1995-1999.
International Mathematical olympiad (Canada 1995)
Gold medal.
International Mathematical Olympiad (Hong Kong 1994)
Gold medal.
Information
Born: May 1977, Tehran, Iran.
Citizenship: Iranian
Education Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ph.D. in Mathematics, expected graduation: June 2004.
Thesis Advisor: Curtis T. McMullen.
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
B.S. in Mathematics, 1999.
Research
Interests
Teichm¨uller theory, Hyperbolic geometry, Ergodic theory, Symplectic geometry
Papers/
Publications
Growth of the number of simple closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces. Preprint, 2003.
Simple geodesics and the Weil-Petersson of Moduli spaces of bordered
Riemann surfaces. Preprint, 2003.
Weil-Petersson volumes and the Witten-Kontsevich formula. Preprint, 2003.
Ergodic theory of the earthquake flow. In preparation.
A simple proof of a theorem of Schur. Amer. Math. Monthly 105 (1998 no. 3,
260–262.
A small non-4-choosable planar graph. Bull. Inst. Combin. Appl. 17 (1996), 15–18.
Decomposition of complete tripartite graphs into 5-cycles. In combinatorics advances,
pages 235-241. Math. Appl., Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrecht, 1995.
Elementary number theory, challenging problems (Farsi), Roya Beheshti,
Maryam Mirzakhani, Fatemi Publishers, Tehran, Iran, 1999.
Recent talks
Wasatch Topology Conference,University of Utah
Spring 2004
Harvard-MIT Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Spring 2004
Berkeley-Stanford Joint Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Spring 2004
Fellowship of the Ring, Brandeis University
Spring 2004
Geometry Seminar, Boston University
Spring 2004
Geometry Seminar, Rice University
Spring 2004
Conference on Teichmuller space and moduli space, University of Illinois at Chicago
Fall 2003
Geometry Seminar, University of Chicago
Fall 2003
Topology Seminar, Yale University, Fall 2003
Geometry, Representation Theory, and Moduli Seminar, Princeton University,
Fall 2003
,
Ergodic Theory and Statistical Analysis Seminar, Princeton University,
Fall 2003
,
Geometry seminar, Indiana University, Spring 2003.
Geometry seminar, Brown University, Spring 2003.
Awards /
Honors
Clay Mathematics Institute Research Fellow
2004-
Harvard Junior Fellowship
Harvard University, 2003.
Merit fellowship
Harvard University, 2003.
IPM Fellowship
The Institute for theoretical Physics and Mathematics,
Tehran, Iran, 1995-1999.
International Mathematical olympiad (Canada 1995)
Gold medal.
International Mathematical Olympiad (Hong Kong 1994)
Gold medal.
.
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