Vivek Dhand Curriculum Vitae

Contact vivek.dhand@gmail.com
Information
Personal Data Date of Birth: 28 November, 1980 Birthplace: Chandigarh, India
Citizenship: United States of America

Research Combinatorics and representation theory: especially geometric structures associated

Interests to algebraic groups, crystal bases for quantum groups, and chain decompositions of
posets.

Education Northwestern University

Ph.D. Mathematics (December 2007)
• Dissertation Title: Geometric Langlands Duality and Forms of Reductive Groups
• Advisor: Kari K. Vilonen

University of Chicago
S.B. Mathematics (June 2003)

Employment September 2013 – Present

Instructor, Art of Problem Solving
August 2011 – Present
Independent mathematician and software developer
August 2008 – August 2011
Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan State University
December 2007 – June 2008
Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University

Publication List Tropical decomposition of Young’s partition lattice. Journal of Algebraic Combina-
torics DOI 10.1007/s10801-013-0467-4.
Symmetric chain decomposition of necklace posets. Electronic Journal of Combina-
torics 19 (2012) P26.

Preprints and A combinatorial proof of strict unimodality for q-binomial coefficients.

In progress http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1199
Rank-unimodality of Young’s lattice via explicit chain-decomposition.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2536
Unimodal and Spener ideals in Young’s lattice. In progress.
An order-preserving version of Stanley’s (P, ω)-partition lemma. In progress.
Chains in lattices of semi-standard Young tableaux and crystal graphs. In progress.
Explicit matchings on L(m, n). In progress.

Software Epicycloid: an animated visualization of real powers of n-th roots of unity.

Graph Theory: a touch interface for exploring graph planarity and crossing number.

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Teaching Spring 2011 Lecturer: Abstract Algebra and Number Theory
Experience Fall 2010 Lecturer: Linear Algebra, Discrete Math I
Spring 2010 Lecturer: Abstract Algebra and Number Theory, Discrete Math II
Fall 2009 Lecturer: Discrete Math I
Summer 2009 Lecturer: Abstract Algebra and Number Theory
Spring 2009 Lecturer: Discrete Math I, Discrete Math II
Fall 2008 Lecturer: Discrete Math I
2003 – 2007 Teaching Assistant: Multivariable Calculus, Differential Geometry,
Applied Analysis, Abstract Algebra, Chaotic Dynamical Systems,
Linear Algebra

Honors projects Brandon Long: Dynamics of the squaring map in modular arithmetic.
supervised Lovelesh Chawla: First-order logic and the field with two elements.
Rebecca McCormack: Graph coloring and Sudoku.
Sherwood Wang: Combinatorics of cluster algebras.
Adam Sadjak: Matrices, partitions, and Chomp.

Honors and 2006 Top 12 finalist for Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship
Awards 2006 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Northwestern University
2004 Preliminary Exam Award, Northwestern University
2003 Sigma Xi Honor Society
1999–2003 Viola Bower Scholarship, University of Chicago

Presentations Unimodal and Spener ideals in Young’s lattice, Combinatorics Seminar, University of
Minnesota (April 2014)
An order-preserving analogue of O’Hara’s structure theorem for Young’s lattice, Joint
Mathematics Meetings (January 2014)
Tropical decomposition of Young’s partition lattice, Algebraic Lie Theory Seminar, Uni-
versity of Colorado–Boulder (December 2012)
Discrete dynamical systems, Colorado Math Circle (January 2012)
Topics in number theory, Colorado Math Circle (November 2011)
Symmetric chain decomposition of necklace posets, Algebraic Lie Theory Seminar, Uni-
versity of Colorado–Boulder (October 2011)
Necklaces, partitions, and symmetric chain decomposition, Combinatorics Seminar,
Michigan State University (April 2011)
Fractals in number theory, Colloquium, Dept. of Math. Albion College (March 2011)
Topological quantum field theories and the geometric Langlands program, Colloquium,
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Michigan–Dearborn (April 2010)
The Fibonacci sequence: melody and harmony, Colloquium, Dept. of Math. Albion
College (October 2009)
The hydrogen atom, Northwestern Student Math. Physics Seminar (April 2008)
The affine Grassmannian II, Talbot Workshop on Affine Lie Algebras and Chiral Struc-
tures (March 2008)
Geometric Langlands duality and forms of reductive groups, Representation Theory
Seminar, Dept. of Math. University of Maryland (December 2007)
Local geometric Langlands duality, Northwestern Math. Graduate Student Seminar
(October 2007)

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 The classification of real semisimple Lie algebras, Northwestern Math. Graduate Stu-
dent Seminar (January 2007)
Galois cohomology of Tannakian categories, Northwestern Math. Graduate Student
Seminar (March 2006)
Automorphism towers of finite groups and the Euler function, Northwestern Under-
graduate Math. Society (October 2004)

Conferences Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore (January 2014)

Askey 80th Birthday Conference, University of Wisconsin–Madison (December 2013)
Topological Field Theories, Northwestern University (May 2009)
Talbot Workshop: Affine Lie Algebras and Chiral Structues (March 2008)
Geometry and Physics: Atiyah 80, ICMS, Edinburgh (April 2009)
Algebro-geometric Derived Categories and Applications, Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton (March 2008)
Talbot Workshop: The Geometric Langlands Program (March 2005)

Other activities Referee for The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics

Reviewer for American Mathematical Society and Zentralblatt Database
Colorado Math Circle (2011-2012)
University of Chicago VIGRE REU and Young Scholars Program (2002)

References Prof. Kari Vilonen (Advisor), Northwestern University, vilonen@northwestern.edu

Prof. Sergey Fomin, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, fomin@umich.edu
Prof. Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University, sagan@math.msu.edu
Prof. Dennis Stanton, University of Minnesota, stanton@math.umn.edu
Prof. Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University, zeilberg@math.rutgers.edu
Prof. Jeanne Wald (Teaching reference), Michigan State University, wald@math.msu.edu

Last updated 21 February, 2014.

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