Anna Medvedovsky
http://people.brandeis.edu/~medved
[email protected]
(updated May 19, 2015)
Employment
2015–2016
(scheduled) Postdoctoral Institute Fellowship, ICERM, Providence, RI
2016-2018
(scheduled) visitor, Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany
Education
2008–2015
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Ph.D. in number theory. Advisor: Jo¨el Bella¨ıche. Dissertation:
“Lower bounds on dimensions of mod-p Hecke algebras: The nilpotence method”
2006–2007
Independent University of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Math in Moscow program.
1996–2001
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
AB cum laude in mathematics, 2001.
Senior thesis project on the Chebotarev density theorem. Advisor: Matt Baker.
Selected research talks
2015 April 21 Five College Number Theory Seminar
“Lower bounds on dimensions of mod-p Hecke algebras: the nilpotence method”
2015 April
Upstate Number Theory Conference (contributed talk)
“Lower bounds on dimensions of mod-p Hecke algebras: the nilpotence method”
2015 Mar 17
Brandeis University Everytopic Seminar (department seminar)
“Nilpotent recursion operators + applications to mod-p Hecke algebras”
2015 Feb 21
AMS Graduate Student Math Conference, Brown University
“Recursion operators and applications to Hecke algebras”
2015 Feb 8
Univeristy of Connecticut Algebra Seminar
“Recursion, nilpotence, and dimensions of mod-p Hecke algebras”
2014 Dec 8
Boston University Number Theory Seminar
“The nilpotence method: lower bounds for dimensions of Hecke algebras”
Awards and honors
2015
Jerome Levine Thesis Prize (department award for best dissertation)
2008–2010
GAANN Fellowship
2006 & 2007
Math in Moscow Scholarship (NSF/AMS)
1998 & 2000
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (Derek Bok Center award)
? Math 122: Abstract algebra, Fall 2000 (course assistant)
? Math 25a: Real analysis, linear algebra, Fall 1998 (course assistant)
Workshop and conference participation
2015 May
p-adic Methods in Number Theory, UC Berkeley (scheduled)
2015 Mar
p-adic methods in the theory of classical automorphic forms, CRM Montr´eal
2015 Jan
Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Antonio, TX
2014 Feb
MSRI Hot Topics: Perfectoid Spaces and their Applications
2013 March
Arizona Winter School: Modular forms and modular curves.
Project group: Congruences between modular forms (Frank Calegari)
2012 Jan
Joint Mathematics Meeting in Boston, MA
2011 May
Workshop on L-functions, Galois representations, and Iwasawa theory in Ann Arbor
2011 March
Arizona Winter School, Stark-Heegner points.
Project group: Stark-Heegner points (Henri Darmon, Victor Rotger)
2010 May
Program for Women and Mathematics at IAS, p-Adic Langlands Program
2009 Summer PCMI Summer Session, Arithmetic of L-functions
Teaching experience
2008–present
Brandeis University Mathematics Department, Waltham, MA
? Instructor of record in coordinated course (separate lectures, joint hw and exams)
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Fall 2009
Calculus
Calculus
Calculus
Calculus
II
I
I
I
? Grader, section leader. Differential equations, algebra, multivariable calculus, etc.
2007 & 2000
PROMYS, Boston University, Boston, MA
? Teacher counselor. Summer 2007.
? Counselor for flagship high-school student program. Summer 2000.
2001
Ross Young Scholars Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Seminar instructor & Counselor. Summer 2001.
1997–2000
Harvard University Mathematics Department, Cambridge, MA
Course assistant: Led weekly review sections, graded problem sets
1999–2000
Coll`
ege J. Vall`
es, Ecoles J. Mac´
e, V. Hugo, Choisy-le-Roi, France
Foreign assistant. Taught English as a foreign language in the suburbs of Paris.
Additional experience
2002–2006
SparkNotes LLC, New York, NY
Editor, writer at educational publishing company. Published works include:
? For Whom the Bell Tolls SparkNote, 2003 (writer).
Personal
? US citizen. Immigrated from Russia in 1988. Fully bilingual.
? Fluent in French. Proficient in German.