CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Olga Maleva

Work address: School of Mathematics, Watson Building, University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Telephone: +44(0)121 414 6584
Fax:
+44(0)121 414 3389
E-mail: o.maleva@bham.ac.uk
URL: http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/malevao

Education and posts held

August 2008 now: Lecturer in Analysis at the University of Birmingham.
September 2006 July 2008: Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK.
October 2005 September 2006: College Teaching Officer and Director of Studies
in Pure Mathematics, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, UK.
December 2003 November 2005: EU Marie Curie post-doctoral research fellow
at University College London, UK.
October 1998 December 2003: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of
Science, Israel.
Thesis supervisor: Professor Gideon Schechtman
Thesis title: Nonlinear quotient mappings and other classes of regular mappings
between finite-dimensional Banach spaces
1998: M.Sc. equivalent (with Distinction), Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.
B.Sc. studies under a joint program of the University and the Steklov Institute of
Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 19931995

Awards and scholarships

2012: EPSRC Developing Leaders Grant Grant value 17,540.
2010: Research grant Geometry of Lipschitz Mappings, awarded by Engineering
and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK. Grant value 124,641.
2009: UK Royal Society International Travel Grant to support invited attendance and
presentation at the conference The State of Geometry and Functional Analysis held
in Tel Aviv. Grant value 1,400.
2003: Two year Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship Nonlinear Quotients and
Geometry of Banach Spaces. Grant value: e 163,696.
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19982003: Full scholarship covering the studies towards the Ph.D. degree at the
Weizmann Institute of Science.
2002: Recipient of The Sam Cohen Windhoek Scholarship.
19931998: Scholarship for excellence in studies at the Saint Petersburg University.
1994, 1995: Two special awards of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society for
Excellence in Studies.

Research interests

Differentiability of Lipschitz mappings

Null sets
Geometric measure theory
Nonlinear quotient mappings
Geometry of Banach spaces
Regularity of mappings in Banach spaces

Invited talks at seminars and conferences

20002010: Invited seminars in University Paris VI and University of Lille,
France; University of Cambridge, Queens University Belfast, University of
Warwick, University of Birmingham, University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, UK; Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University,
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; Texas A&M University, USA.
Gave talk Null sets which are not Lipschitz negligible, The State of Geometry
and Functional Analysis conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2430 June, 2009
Gave talk Exceptional sets of Lipschitz functions, British Mathematical Colloquium, Galway, Ireland, 69 April, 2009
Gave talk Unavoidable sigma-porous sets, Banach spaces and their applications in Analysis, conference in honor of Nigel Kaltons 60th birthday, Miami
University, Oxford, OH, USA, 2227 May, 2006
Gave talk Bi-Lipschitz invariance of the class of cone null sets at the conference on Contemporary Ramifications of Banach Space Theory, Institute for
Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2024 June, 2005
Gave talk Curves in `1 -trees and porosity, Geometric Aspects of Infinite
Dimensional Banach Space Theory Nonlinear Methods in Linear Functional
Analysis workshop, Erwin Schrodinger Institute, Vienna, Austria, 25 May 5
June, 2005
Gave talk The class of sets which are null on curves is invariant under a
Lipschitz mapping with all one-sided derivatives, Winter School in Abstract
Analysis, Lhota nad Rohanovem, Czech Republic, 1522 January, 2005
Gave talk Lipschitz quotient mappings, Functional Analysis Workshop, Joensuu, Finland, 2024 June, 2004

Gave talk Regularity of nonlinear quotient mappings, Spring School on Analysis, Paseky, Czech Republic, 1824 April, 2004
Gave talk Lipschitz quotient mappings between finite-dimensional spaces,
British Mathematical Colloquium, Belfast, UK, 58 April, 2004
Gave talk Level sets of nonlinear quotient mappings from R2 to R, International Workshop on Small Sets in Analysis, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 2530
June, 2003
Gave talk On ball non-collapsing mappings of the plane, International Conference in Functional Analysis, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1922 May, 2002
Gave talk Point preimages under Lipschitz quotient mappings, Workshop in
Linear Analysis and Probability, SUMIRFAS Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, 9 July16 August, 2001
Gave talk On regularity of Lipschitz quotient mappings with small constants,
Israel Mathematical Union annual meeting 2000, University of Haifa, Israel, 17
May, 2000

PhD theses examining:

October 2012: External examiner of a doctoral thesis in the University of Pisa, Italy.
March 2012, Dec 2009: Internal examiner of two doctoral theses in the Univ. of Birmingham, UK.

Advising
PhD student: Michael Dymond (University of Birmingham, 2011now)
Postdoctoral advisee: Dr Michael Dore (University of Birmingham, 20102012)

Other professional activities

Refereed papers for a number of research journals.

Teaching
20092013:

Linear Analysis (Autumn term)

Measure and Integration (Spring term)

20082009:

Lectured the following courses to undergraduate students at the University of Birmingham:

Foundation and Abstraction
History of Mathematics
Topics in Analysis

20072008:

Lectured Analysis I to first year undergraduates (a

class of 300 students). Taught Analysis small class
(35 students) twice a week.

20052006:

Supervised part IA, IB and II students at the University of Cambridge. The topics covered included: Analysis I; Numbers and Sets; Probability; Algebra and
Geometry; Groups, Rings and Modules; Linear Algebra; Metric and Topological Spaces; Topics in Analysis; Linear Analysis.

December 2005:

Admission interviews for Emmanuel College.

Autumn 2004:

Lectured the course Real Analysis to undergraduate

students at University College London. I also prepared
the course work and the final examination.

2003/4, 2004/5:

Taught tutorials in analysis and algebra to first year

undergraduate students at University College London.

Autumn 2001,
Autumn 2002:

Lectured (in English) to a class of 60 students as a

teaching assistant in the course Mathematical Models in Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Conducted help sessions and marked homework.

Spring 2001,
Spring 2002:

Teaching assistant in the courses Mathematics for

Chemists and Mathematics for Biologists.

Summer 1999:

Lectured (in English) to overseas pre-college students

as an Instructor of the Summer Science Institute at
the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Autumn 1997:

Conducted exercise sessions with undergraduate students for the course Analysis I, Saint Petersburg University, Russia.

19931998:

Taught Mathematics to talented high school students

in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Professional Development
I participated in the following staff training workshops:

E-learning at Birmingham, University of Birmingham, 2010

Supervising Students, University of Birmingham, 2010
Evaluating your teaching practice, University of Birmingham, 2010
WebCT and interactive tools for lectures, University of Birmingham, 2010
Induction course for lecturers new to teaching mathematics and statistics in
UKHE, University of Birmingham, 2008
Student Selection Interviewing - Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University of Cambridge, 2005
Supervision skills training course, University of Cambridge, 2005

Introduction to Small Group Teaching, UCL, 2004

PhD Supervision Workshop, UCL, 2004

Languages and other skills

English; Hebrew; Russian (mother tongue); French (basic)
Excellent computing and IT skills

List of Publications
(1) Chain-rule formula for locally Lipschitz functions on Banach spaces (with D.
Preiss), in preparation
(2) A compact universal differentiability set with Hausdorff dimension one (with
M. Dore), Israel Journal of Mathematics, 191 (2012), 889900.
(3) A universal differentiability set in Banach spaces with separable dual (with M.
Dore), Journal of Functional Analysis, 261 (2011), no. 6, 16741710.
(4) A compact null set containing a differentiability point of every Lipschitz function (with M. Dore), Mathematische Annalen, 351 (2011), no. 3, 633663
(5) Metric derived numbers and continuous metric differentiability via homeomorphisms (with J. Duda), de Gruyter Proceedings in Mathematics (2007), 307
330
(6) Unavoidable sigma-porous sets, J. London Math. Soc., 76, no. 2 (2007), 467
478
(7) Metric characterization of pure unrectifiability (with G. Kun and A. Mathe),
Real Analysis Exchange, 31, no. 1 (2006), 195214
(8) On Lipschitz ball non collapsing functions and uniform co-Lipschitz mappings
of the plane, Abstract and Applied Analysis, no. 5 (2005), 543562
(9) Components of level sets of uniform co-Lipschitz functions on the plane, Proceedings of the AMS, 133, no. 3 (2005), 841850
(10) Point preimages under ball non-collapsing mappings, Geometric Aspects of
Functional Analysis, Lecture Notes in Math., 1807 (2003), 148157
(11) Lipschitz quotient mappings with good ratio of constants, Mathematika, 49
(2002), no. 1-2, 159165
(12) A pathological example of a uniform quotient mapping between Euclidean
spaces, Israel Journal of Mathematics, 123 (2001), 211220

(13) Nonlinear quotient mappings and other classes of regular mappings between
finite-dimensional Banach spaces, Ph.D. Thesis, The Weizmann Institute of
Science, 2003
(14) Twisted sum of Hilbert spaces, Operator approach, M.Sc. Thesis, Saint Petersburg University, 1998

Names of Referees
(1) Professor David Preiss FRS
Mathematics Institute, Department of Mathematics, University of Warwick,
Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
E-mail: d.preiss@warwick.ac.uk, tel.: 024 76574828, fax: 024 76524182
(2) Professor Gideon Schechtman
Department of Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot,
76100, ISRAEL
E-mail: gideon.schechtman@weizmann.ac.il, tel.: +972 8 9343155,
fax: +972 8 9342945
(3) Professor William B. Johnson
Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
77843-3368, USA
E-mail: johnson@math.tamu.edu, tel.: +1 979 8452722,
fax: +1 979 8456028