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Welcome!

I am an Associate Professor at the School of Mathematics at University of Minnesota. Before coming here I was an Associate Professor at MIT. Previously I was a Gibbs Instructor at Yale University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at MSRI. I got my Ph.D. from Harvard University. I did my undergraduate studies at Moscow State University.

Research

I work in Discrete Mathematics. More specifically, my research spans the following topics:

Probability and Computations on Groups
Enumerative Combinatorics
Discrete and Polyhedral Geometry

My undergraduate advisor was Alexandre Kirillov (currently at UPenn). My graduate advisor was Persi Diaconis (currently at Stanford). As a postdoc at Yale, I was working with László Lovász (currently at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary). At MIT, I was working with Richard Stanley (still at MIT).

Here are some of my papers.

Here is my book: Lectures on Discrete and Polyhedral Geometry

Teaching:

Math 4707 (Fall 2007): Syllabus and course materials

Math 5248 (Fall 2007): Syllabus and course materials

Links to old MIT Courses:

Combinatorial Analysis (18.314, Fall 2006)
Geometric Combinatorics (18.319, Spring 2006)
Introduction to Probability and Statistics (18.05, Spring 2007)
Combinatorial Theory (18.315, Fall 2005) Brief lecture notes are available from the MIT OCW website.
Convex Polytopes and Combinatorial Geometry (18.318, Topics in Combinatorics)
Probability and Computation on Groups (18.317, Fall 2001) Brief lecture notes of the same class in 2006 are available from Petar Maymounkov website.

Links to some old lecture series:

Resume:

I have a short (.pdf file, 2 pages) and an extended (.pdf file, 24 pages) versions of the resume.
I also have a (rather dated) list of my coauthors with their web pages (if available).

Contact information:

Igor Pak
School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota,
206 Church St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Office: Vincent Hall 258
Phone: (612) 625-3855 (no message service)
Fax: (612) 626-2017
E-mail: my last name AT my university.edu

Last updated: 6/25/2008

The picture is courtesy Tsuneo Tamagawa, Yale University. It was made in 1998.