Samuel Grushevsky

Current position
Instructor in Mathematics, Princeton University, 2002 - 2006

Education

• Ph.D. in mathematics: Harvard University, June 2002.

Advisor: Professor Yum-Tong Siu. Dissertation title: "Effective Schottky problem".
• M.A. in mathematics: Harvard University, June 1999
• B.A. magna cum laude in mathematics and physics: Harvard University, June 1998
• Work towards B.S. degree in mathematics: Moscow State University, Department of Mathematics, 1994 - 1996
• Work towards joint B.S./M.S. degree in mathematics: Independent University of Moscow, Moscow, Russia Mathematical College, 1993 - 1996
• High school graduation diploma: Moscow State Fifty Seventh School, June 1994

• Moduli spaces of curves and abelian varieties 
• Teichmüller theory
• Schottky problem, theta functions

• NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2002-2006
• Clay Mathematics Institute Liftoff Award, summer 2002
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 1998-2001
• Putnam Graduate Fellowship, 1998-2002
• Phi Beta Kappa: academic honors society membership, June 1998
• Harvard University: John Harvard Academic Merit Scholarship, 1996-1998
• 58th Putnam Competition: Putnam Fellow (top six participants out of 2700); member of the first place winning Harvard team. Boston, MA, December 1997.
• 4th annual Boston Area Undergraduate Physics Competition: third place. April 1997
• 57th Putnam Competition: diploma (top 15 participants). Boston, MA, December 1996
• Soros Foundation: Student Award for Academic Excellence. Moscow, Russia 1994-1996
• World Junior Brains Championship: gold medal in mathematics. Tokyo, Japan, October 1993.
• IBM International Programming Competition: diploma. Minsk, Belarus, August 1993.
• Moscow Math Olympiad: first prize. Moscow, Russia, February 1993.
• Moscow Physics Olympiad: first prize. Moscow, Russia, February 1992.

• Towards the cohomological dimension of the moduli space of smooth curves, in preparation
• (with G. Farkas) Theta divisors and special linear systems on Jacobians, in preparation
• Addition theorem for Prym varieties, in preparation
• (with D. Lehavi) Prym construction for abelian varieties of dimension four, in preparation
• (with R. Salvati Manni) Two generalizations of Jacobi's derivative formula, submitted
• (with R. Salvati Manni) Gradients of odd theta functions, to appear in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal)
• Effective algebraic Schottky problem, submitted
• Cubic equations for the hyperelliptic locus, to appear in Asian Journal of Mathematics (special issue dedicated to Prof. Yum-Tong Siu on his 60th birthday)
• An explicit upper bound for Weil-Petersson volumes of the moduli spaces of punctured Riemann surfaces, Mathematische Annalen 321 (2001) 1, 1-13

• Algebraic geometry seminar, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 2004
• Special analysis seminars, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, May 2004
• Geometry and Topology seminar, Rutgers University, NJ, March 2004
• Conference on Recent Developments in Several Complex Variables, CR geometry, and Complex Algebraic Geometry, celebrating Professor Yum-Tong Siu's 60th birthday, Hong Kong, November 2003
• Algebraic and complex geometry seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October 2003
• Algebraic geometry seminar, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, October 2003
• VBAC (Vector bundles on algebraic curves) 2003, Porto, Portugal, July 2003
• Geometry of Moduli Spaces, Lille, France, June 2003
• Algebraic geometry seminar, Princeton University, March 2003
• Geometry seminar, Università di Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, December 2002
• Algebra and geometry seminar, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, December 2002
• Algebra, Geometry, and Physics seminar, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY, November 2002
• Geometry seminar, Columbia University, New York, NY, November 2002
• Perspectives in classification and moduli theory conference, Cortona, Italy, October 2002
• Komplexe Analysis meeting, Oberwolfach, Germany, August 2002
• ICM 2002 satellite conference on complex analysis, Kyoto, Japan - Shanghai, China, August 2002
• Geometry seminar, Boston University, Boston, MA, April 2002
• Moduli of curves conference, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2002
• Harvard-MIT algebraic geometry seminar, Cambridge, MA, February 2002
• Tamarkin job talk, Brown University, Providence, RI, January 2002
• Geometric analysis seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, December 2001
• AMS Eastern sectional meeting, special session on abelian varieties, Williamstown, MA, October 2001
• Real and Complex Geometry seminar, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 2001
• AMS Eastern sectional meeting, special session on enumerative methods in algebraic geometry, Lowell, MA, March 2000
• Workshop on Riemann Surfaces in honor of Hershel Farkas's 60th birthday, Jerusalem, Israel, June 1999

• JAMI Conference in honor of B. Shiffman's 60th birthday, Baltimore, MD, March 2004
• Complex analysis trimester, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, January 2004
• Unity of Mathematics, in honor of I. Gelfand's 90th birthday, Cambridge, MA, September 2003
• Von Neumann Colloquium, MSRI, Berkeley, CA, August 2003
• Cohomology of Moduli Spaces, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 2002
• Conference on Several Complex Variables and Complex Geometry for the 70th Birthdays of Robert Gunning and Joseph Kohn, Princeton, NJ, September 2002
• ICM 2002, Beijing, China, August 2002
• MSRI Introductory Workshop on Algebraic Stacks, Intersection Theory, and Non-Abelian Hodge Theory, Berkeley, CA, January 2002
• Ahlfors-Bers Colloquium, Storrs, CT, October 2001
• Graphs and Patterns, conference in honor of Dennis Sullivan's 60th birthday, Stony Brook, NY, June 2001
• II Iberoamerican Congress on Geometry, Guanajuato, Mexico, January 2001

• Calculus teaching fellow: Taught introductory calculus: limits, differentiation, integration. Gave lectures held office hours, participated in general course organization, structuring and exam grading. Harvard University, Fall 2001
• Mathematics Course Assistant: Taught sections and graded homework for advanced math classes. Awarded Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, as a course assistant for "Second Course in Real Analysis" with Prof. Kamal Khuri-Makdisi. Harvard University, 1997-1998.
• NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates program: Study of Nielsen conjecture for homeomorphisms of irreducible 3-manifolds, under supervision of Professor Slawomir Kwasik. Tulane University, Summer 1997
• Seminar on dessins d'enfant: Study of groups associated to plane trees-mathematical theory and computer experiments. Results reported at the seminar. Moscow State University 1994-1996
• High school physics and math teaching assistant: Moscow State Fifty seventh school. September 94-June 96.

• Computer: C/C++, Visual Basic, Pascal; Windows, UNIX, DOS; Maple, LaTeX.
• Languages: Russian (native), French (proficient), Spanish (basic).

• Organizer, jury chairman: Supervised grading, proctoring and general organization of Moscow and international high school mathematics competitions, with up to 1000 participants. 1994 - 1996.
• Movie Actor: played the author in the movie "Sunset" of Moscow Film studio (MOSFILM). 1991.