• Education
  • Math and Science Boarding School #45, Leningrad, 1971-1974.
  • St.Petersburg State University (LGU), M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1982) in Mathematics.

• Employment
  • St.Petersburg Electrotechnical University (LETI), Department of Mathematics
    • Assistant Professor, 1982-1985.
    • Docent, 1985-1991.
  • St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, Russian Academy of Sciences
    • Senior Research Fellow, 1991-2005 (on leave 1992-2005).
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics
    • Visiting Assistant Professor, 1992-1993.
    • Assistant Professor, 1993-1996.
    • Associate Professor, 1996-2000 (on leave 1999-2000).
  • University of Michigan, Department of Mathematics
    • Associate Professor, 1999-2001.
    • Professor, 2001-2007.
    • Robert M. Thrall Collegiate Professor, 2007-present.

• Visiting Appointments
  • Mittag-Leffler Institute, 1992 and 2005.
  • MSRI, 1997 and 2008.
  • Erwin Schrödinger Institute, 2000.
  • Isaac Newton Institute, 2001 and 2009.
  • IRMA, Université Louis Pasteur, 2006.

• Invited Talks and Lecture Series (selected)
  • Geometric Aspects of Representation Theory, Sydney, 2002.
  • Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, 2003 (2 lectures).
  • Sophus Lie Conference Center, Nordfjordeid, 2003 (8 lectures).
  • Euler Institute for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, Eindhoven, 2003 (10 lectures).
  • Current Developments in Mathematics, Cambridge, MA, 2003.
  • IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute, Park City, UT, 2004 (5 lectures).
  • American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA, 2005 (2 lectures).
  • Harvard Colloquium, 2005.
  • Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, Luminy, 2005 (4 lectures).
  • Teichmüller Theory and Cluster Algebras, Leicester, 2006 (3 lectures).
  • Geometric and Topological Combinatorics, Alcalá de Henares, 2006.
  • Leonhard Euler and Modern Combinatorics, St. Petersburg, 2007.
  • Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics, Tianjin, 2007.
  • MSRI-Evans Lecture, Berkeley, 2008.
  • Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, 2008 (3 lectures).
  • Combinatorics of Moduli Spaces, Hurwitz Numbers, and Cluster Algebras, Moscow, 2008 (2 lectures).
  • Cluster Algebras and Related Topics, Mexico City, 2008.
  • The Abel Symposium, Voss, Norway, 2009.

• Editorial Boards (selected)
  • Transactions of the AMS and Memoirs of the AMS, 2001-2006.
  • Electronic Research Announcements of the AMS, 2004-2007.
  • Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 2006-present.

• Organization of Conferences and Other Professional Service
  • Representation Theory and Symmetric Functions, MSRI, 1997.
  • Permanent Program Committee, FPSAC, 1998-present.
  • FPSAC Annual Program Committees: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008.
  • University of Michigan Combinatorics Seminar, 2000-present.
  • Director, NATO Advanced Study Institute Symmetric Functions 2001, Cambridge, 2001.
  • Math in Moscow Committee of the AMS, 2004-2007 (Chair, 2006-2007).
  • Committee of Visitors for the Division of Mathematical Sciences, NSF, 2007.
  • Topics in Combinatorial Representation Theory, MSRI, 2008.

• Research Interests: Combinatorics, its applications, and its interactions with other areas of mathematics.

• Graduate students: Alexander Yong (2003), Kelli Talaska, Luis Serrano.

• Recent Publications (selected)
  • S.Fomin and A.Zelevinsky, Cluster algebras I: Foundations, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (2002), 497-529.
  • S.Fomin and A.Zelevinsky, Y-systems and generalized associahedra, Ann. of Math. 158 (2003), 977-1018.
  • S.Fomin and A.Zelevinsky, Cluster algebras II: Finite type classification, Invent. Math. 154 (2003), 63-121.
  • S.Fomin, W.Fulton, C.-K. Li, and Y.-T.Poon, Eigenvalues, singular values, and Littlewood-Richardson coefficients, Amer.J. Math., 127 (2005), 101-127.
  • A.Berenstein, S.Fomin, and A.Zelevinsky, Cluster algebras III: Upper bounds and double Bruhat cells, Duke Math. J. 126 (2005), 1-52.
  • S.Fomin and N.Reading, Generalized cluster complexes and Coxeter combinatorics, IMRN 2005:44, 2709-2757.
  • S.Fomin and A.Zelevinsky, Cluster algebras IV: Coefficients, Compos. Math. 143 (2007), 112-164.

• Personal: Born 1958. Married 1979. Two children (1981, 1984). Dual citizen of Russia and the USA.

• Contact Information
  Address: Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
  Email: fomin@umich.edu
  Phone: (734) 764-6297
  Homepage: http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~fomin/

Last modified: April 2008.