New Faculty in the Department

The department has experienced an unprecedented influx of new faculty this fall, with twelve new faculty arriving.

Dennis Gaitsgory will begin his appointment as an associate professor this fall. His research interests lie on the border between algebraic geometry and representation theory, and include the geometric Langlands program. Gaitsgory comes to the University of Chicago from Harvard University, where he was a member of the Society of Fellows, and holds a Long-Term Prize Fellowship from the Clay Mathematics Fellowship. In the summer of 2000, he was awarded a Prize of the European Mathematical Society at the Third European Congress of Mathematics in Barcelona. These prizes are meant to recognize excellent contributions in mathematics by young researchers not older than 32 years They are presented every four years.

There are two new assistant professors in the department this year. Yu Yuan is a visiting assistant professor who comes the the department from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are in the area of partial differential equations and differential geometry. Andrzej Zuk is an assistant professor who comes to the department from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyons, France. His research is in analysis and geometry on groups.

There are nine new instructors in the department this year. Pramod Achar was a graduate student at MIT, and works in representation theory. James Borger holds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, and comes to Chicago after spending a year at MIT. He works on arithmetic algebraic geometry. Christopher Connell also holds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, and comes to Chicago after spending a year at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests relate to the geometry and topology of nonpositively curved spaces. Jesper Grodal was a graduate student at MIT, and works in homotopy theory. Sharon Hollander was also a graduate student at MIT, and works on algebraic topology and the theory of stacks. Kenneth Koenig holds an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship. His research interests lie in several complex variables, harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations. Nicolas Monod was a student at the ETH in Zurich, and has research interests in geometric group theory and rigidity theory. David Nadler's research interests relate to the topology of algebraic spaces arising in representation theory. Vadim Vologodsky was a graduate student at Harvard, and works on arithmetic algebraic geometry.

More detailed information on the research interests of new faculty can be found here.