August 21, 2013 - With the start of every new academic year comes a new group of ICERM postdocs. We're pleased to welcome our newest Institute and Semester postdoctoral fellows for 2013-2014:

Postdoctoral Institute Fellows:

Giulio Tiozzo completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Harvard University under the supervision of Prof. C. McMullen. Dr. Tiozzo's primary research focus is on dynamical systems and their relations with complex analysis, Teichmüller theory, and group theory and probability. He is particularly interested in random walks on groups, especially the mapping class group, and entropy and Hausdorff dimension in one-dimensional families. As an Institute postdoc, Dr. Tiozzo will be at ICERM for the 2013-14 academic year. After ICERM, he will be at Yale University.

Grigory Yaroslavtsev completed his Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science at Pennsylvania State University under the supervision of Professor Sofya Raskhodnikova. Dr. Yaroslavtsev's research interests include efficient combinatorial algorithms for sparsification, summarization and testing properties of large data. He focuses on understanding the role of concise representations in approximation algorithms, learning theory and property testing, communication complexity and differential privacy. As an Institute postdoc, Dr. Yaroslavtsev will be at ICERM for the 2013-14 academic year.

Fall 2013 Postdoctoral Fellows:

Ryan Greene completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at The Ohio State University under the supervision of Professor Mike Davis. Dr. Greene's research focuses on convex projective structures on orbifolds, especially Coxeter orbifolds, and actions of reflection groups on projective spaces. He is also interested in low dimensional topology and applications of character variety techniques to questions about knots, links, and their invariants. After serving as a Summer@ICERM Teaching Associate, Dr. Greene will stay at ICERM at a postdoc from September through December 2013.

BoGwang Jeon completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Professor Nathan Dunfield. Dr. Jeon's research focuses on the topology and geometry of 3-manifolds. In particular, he is interested in various invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds such as volume and trace field. He will be at ICERM from September through December 2013. After ICERM, Dr. Jeon will join Columbia University.

Rodolfo Rios-Zertuche completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Princeton University, where he was supervised by Professor Andrei Okounkov. Dr. Rios-Zertuche's research draws on analogies with mathematical physics and probability to solve problems in algebraic geometry. It is heavily charged with representations of the infinite symmetric group and of Kac-Moody algebras, and their connections to combinatorics, symmetric functions, arithmetic, and quantum field theory. Before coming to ICERM, Dr. Rios-Zertuche was a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton. He will be at ICERM from September through December 2013. After ICERM, Dr. Rios-Zertuche will be a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.

Anastasiia Tsvietkova received her Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Tennessee under the supervision of Professor Morwen Thistlethwaite. Dr. Tsvietkova's research interests include knot theory and low-dimensional topology, with a particular emphasis on hyperbolic 3-manifolds. She also is interested in geometric group theory. Before coming to ICERM, Dr. Tsvietkova was a VIGRE Postdoc at Louisiana State University. She will be at ICERM from September through December 2013. In January 2014, Dr. Tsvietkova will begin her position as the Krener Assistant Professor at UC-Davis.

Spring 2014 Postdoctoral Fellows:

Kyle Fox received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Jeff Erickson. Dr. Fox's main research interests lie in algorithms and theory as well as combinatorics. In particular, problems in data structures and computational topology (looking at graphs drawn on donuts) as well as problems in scheduling. Dr. Fox will be at ICERM from January 2014 through May 2014.

Danupon Nanongkai received his Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization (ACO) from Georgia Tech under the supervision of Professor Richard J. Lipton. Dr. Nanongkai's research interest lies in the area of theoretical computer science in general and the study of communication involved in processing big graphs in particular. Before coming to ICERM, he was a postdoc at the University of Vienna, Austria, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Nanongkai will be at ICERM from January 2014 through May 2014. After ICERM he will continue his previous postdoctoral position in Singapore.

Amanda Redlich received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT under the supervision of Dr. Peter Shor. Dr. Redlich's research interests include combinatorics, probability, and algorithms, and their mutual interactions. This includes research on random graphs, randomized algorithms, graph decomposition, and random natural processes. Before coming to ICERM, Dr. Redlich was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University. She will be at ICERM from January 2014 through May 2014..

Charalampos Tsourakakis received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Professor Alan Frieze. His research interest lies at the intersection of data science and theory: network science and efficient algorithm design. Dr. Tsourakakis will be at ICERM from January 2014 through May 2014.