Curriculum Vitae of Sergey Fomin

Present Position:  Robert M. Thrall Collegiate Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan

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

Education

• Math and Science Boarding School #45, Leningrad, 1971-1974.
• St.Petersburg State University (LGU), M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1982) in Mathematics.
  Advisors: A.M.Vershik, L.V.Osipov.

Employment

• Math and Science Boarding School #45
  • Mathematics Teacher (part-time), 1976-1983.
• 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.
  • Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, 2008-present.

Visiting Appointments

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

Invited Lecture Series

• Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, 2003 (2 lectures) and 2008 (3 lectures).
• Sophus Lie Conference Center, Nordfjordeid, 2003 (8 lectures).
• Euler Institute for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, Eindhoven, 2003 (10 lectures).
• IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute, Park City, UT, 2004 (5 lectures).
• American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA, 2005 (2 lectures).
• Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, Luminy, 2005 (4 lectures).
• Teichmüller Theory and Cluster Algebras, Leicester, 2006 (3 lectures).
• Representation Theory and Combinatorics, Beijing, 2009 (4 lectures).
• Center for the Topology and Quantization of Moduli Spaces, Århus, 2010 (20 lectures).

Invited Talks (selected)

• Current Developments in Mathematics, Cambridge, MA, 2003.
• Harvard Colloquium, 2005.
• 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.
• Cluster Algebras and Related Topics, Mexico City, 2008.
• W. J. Spencer Lecture, Manhattan, KS, 2009.
• The Abel Symposium, Voss, Norway, 2009.
• Tropical Geometry in Combinatorics and Algebra, MSRI, Berkeley, 2009.
• International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, 2010.

Editorial Appointments (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.
• Journal of the AMS, 2009-present.

Organization of Conferences and Other Professional Service

• Permanent Program Committee, FPSAC, 1998-present.
• FPSAC Annual Program Committees: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008, 2009.
• 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.

Graduate students:  Alexander Yong (2003), Kelli Talaska (2010), Luis Serrano (2010), Florian Block (2011), Max Glick (2012).

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, 2709-2757.
• S.Fomin and A.Zelevinsky, Cluster algebras IV: Coefficients, Compos. Math. 143 (2007), 112-164.
• S.Fomin, M.Shapiro and D.Thurston, Cluster algebras and triangulated surfaces. Part I: Cluster complexes, Acta Math. 201 (2008), 83-146.

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, 530 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Email: fomin@umich.edu
Phone: (734) 764-6297
Homepage: http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~fomin/