Books
Y.A. Rubinstein, B. Shiffman, Eds.,
Advances in Complex Geometry ,
American Mathematical Society, 2019.
M.A. Peterson, Y.A. Rubinstein, Eds.,
Directions for Mathematics Research Experience for Undergraduates , World Scientific, 2016.
(book
review in Notices of the American Mathematical Society ,
book
review in The Mathematical Gazette )
Meetings
Frontiers of Geometric Analysis
-
In honor of Gang Tian 's 65th birthday,
Santa Cruz,
June 3-7, 2024.
Convex and Complex: Perspectives on Positivity in Geometry
-
In honor of Bo Berndtsson 's 70th birthday,
Cetraro,
October 31-November 4, 2022.
34th Geometry Festival -
University of Maryland,
April 5-7, 2019.
Metro Area Differential Geometry Seminar (MADGuyS)
-
Howard University, April 27, 2019.
UMD Geometry Week
-
University of Maryland,
March 12-16, 2018.
Maryland Analysis and Geometry Atelier
-
University of Maryland,
August 21-25, 2017.
Videos of lectures
Pacific Rim
Workshop on Geometric Analysis
- University of British Columbia, July 24-28, 2017.
New Directions for Mathematics Research Experiences for Undergraduates
- Mt. Holyoke College, June 21-22, 2013.
28th Geometry Festival: Calabifest -
In celebration of the 90th birthday of Eugenio Calabi ,
University of Maryland,
April 12-14, 2013.
Complex Geometry and Microlocal Analysis - special session at
the AMS Eastern Spring meeting, Boston College, April 6-7, 2013.
Bay Area Differential Geometry Seminar (BADG)
- Stanford, June 2, 2012.
Postdocs
Jakob Hultgren
Tamás Darvas
Jesus Martinez Garcia
Students
Vlasios Mastrantonis
Chenzi Jin
Yuxiang Ji
Mirna Pinsky
Kewei Zhang
Matthew Dellatorre
Ryan Hunter
Michael Lindsey
Frederick Tsz-Ho Fong
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
2016: Co-edited the book
Directions for Mathematics Research Experience for Undergraduates .
The book has been reviewed in
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
and in The Mathematical Gazette .
2016: Co-authored an
article on new models for REUs and
the culture of Mathematics.
2013: Co-organized the conference
New Directions for Mathematics Research Experiences for Undergraduates
at Mt. Holyoke College. Here is an
article summarizing the
conference.
2012: Co-founded
SURIM
and led an REU on Optimal
Transportation, resulting in a
theorem , a
senior thesis project , and the
Kennedy
Honors Thesis Prize
and the SIAM
Student Paper prize for
my student Michael Lindsey.
REU students
Vishesh Jain
Michael Lindsey
Lyuboslav Panchev
2016: Co-edited the book
Directions for Mathematics Research Experience for Undergraduates .
The book has been reviewed in
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
and in The Mathematical Gazette .
Minicourses & Lecture notes
A crash course to large deviation principles and optimal transport -
UMD graduate course on Topics in Geometric Analysis Fall 2017.
Here are the
lecture notes
. (Published version in: Birational Geometry, Kahler-Einstein Metrics and Degenerations (I. Cheltsov et al., Eds), Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics 409, Springer, 2023, pp. 795-837.)
An introduction to Kahler geometry: Tian's properness
conjectures - SCGAS
Winter School
- UC Irvine, January 25-29, 2016.
Here are the
lecture notes . (Published version
in: Geometric Analysis (J. Chen et al., Eds.),
Progress in Mathematics, Vol. 333, Birkhauser, 2020,
pp. 381-443.)
Solutions to an equation that do not
solve the equation - Getting
Started with PDEs
- IIAS, Hebrew University, September 3-9, 2015.
Smooth and singular Kahler-Einstein metrics -
Advanced School on PDEs in Geometry and Physics
- Hefei, China, June 30-July 11, 2014.
Here are the
lecture notes .
(Published version in:
Geometric and Spectral Analysis
(P. Albin et al., Eds.),
Contemp. Math. 630, AMS and Centre Recherches Mathematiques, 2014,
pp. 45-138.)
Publications
(with C. Jin)
Tian's stabilization problem for toric Fanos ,
preprint, 2024, arxiv:2403.17262.
(with V. Mastrantonis)
Two-dimensional Blocki, L^p-Mahler, and Bourgain conjectures ,
preprint, 2024, arxiv:2401.10992.
(with B. Berndtsson, V. Mastrantonis)
L^p-polarity, Mahler volumes, and the isotropic constant ,
preprint, 2023, arxiv:2304.14363.
(with C. Jin)
Chebyshev potentials, Fubini-Study metrics, and geometry of the space of Kahler metrics ,
Bull. London Math. Soc. (2023).
(with V. Mastrantonis)
The Nazarov proof of the non-symmetric Bourgain-Milman inequality ,
preprint, 2022, arxiv:2206.06188. To appear in Indiana Univ. Math. J.
On large deviation principles and the Monge-Ampère equation (following Berman, Hultgren) , in: Birational Geometry, Kahler-Einstein Metrics and Degenerations (I. Cheltsov et al., Eds), Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics 409, Springer, 2023, pp. 795-837.
(with Y. Ji, K. Zhang)
Eguchi-Hanson metrics arising from Kahler-Einstein edge metrics ,
preprint, 2021, arxiv:2111.00652. To appear in J. Topology & Analysis.
(with K. Zhang)
Angle deformation of Kahler-Einstein edge metrics on Hirzebruch
surfaces ,
Pure Appl. Math. Quart. 18, special issue in honor
of Bernard Shiffman (2022), 343-366.
(with G. Tian, K. Zhang)
Basis divisors and balanced metrics ,
Crelle J. 778 (2021), 171-218.
(with P. Cascini, J. Martinez-Garcia)
On the body of ample angles of asymptotically log Fano varieties ,
Rendiconti Circolo Mat. Palermo (2022).
Classification of strongly asymptotically log del Pezzo
flags and surfaces ,
Int. J. Math. 33 (2022).
High-dimensional convex sets arising in algebraic geometry ,
in: Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis (B. Klartag, E. Milman,
Eds.),
Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2266 (2020), pp. 301--323.
(with K. Zhang)
Small angle limits of Hamilton's footballs ,
Bull. London Math. Soc. 52 (2020) 189-199.
(with T. Buttsworth, A. Pulemotov, W. Ziller)
On the Ricci iteration for homogeneous metrics on spheres and projective
spaces ,
Transformation Groups 26 (2021), 145--164.
(with I.A. Cheltsov, K. Zhang)
Basis log canonical thresholds, local intersection estimates, and
asymptotically log del Pezzo surfaces ,
Selecta Math. 25 (2019), 1-36.
Tian's
properness conjectures: an introduction to Kahler geometry ,
in: Geometric Analysis (J. Chen et al., Eds.),
Progress in Mathematics, Vol. 333, Birkhauser, 2020,
pp. 381-443.
(with T. Darvas, C.H. Lu)
Quantization in geometric pluripotential theory ,
Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 73 (2020), 1100-1138.
(with T. Darvas)
Convergence of the Kahler-Ricci iteration ,
Analysis and PDE 12 (2019), 721-735.
(with B. Berndtsson, D. Cordero-Erausquin, B. Klartag)
Complex Legendre duality ,
Amer. J. Math. 142 (2020), 323-339.
(with B. Berndtsson, D. Cordero-Erausquin, B. Klartag)
Complex interpolation of R-norms, duality and foliations ,
J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 22 (2020), 477-–505.
(with T. Darvas)
A minimum principle for Lagrangian graphs ,
Comm. Anal. Geom. 27 (2019), 857-876.
(with A. Pulemotov)
Ricci iteration on homogeneous spaces ,
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 371 (2019), 6257-6287.
(with M. Lindsey)
Optimal transport via a Monge-Ampère optimization problem
,
SIAM J. Math. Anal. 49 (2017), 3073-3124.
(with I.A. Cheltsov)
On flops and canonical metrics ,
Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5) 18 (2018), 283-–311.
(with J.P. Solomon)
The
degenerate special Lagrangian equation ,
Adv. Math. 310 (2017), 889-939.
(with T. Darvas)
Tian's properness conjectures and Finsler geometry of the space of Kahler
metrics ,
J. Amer. Math. Soc. 30 (2017), 347-387.
(with R. Vakil)
REUs with limited faculty involvement, "underrepresented" subjects in the
undergraduate curriculum, and the culture of Mathematics ,
in:
Directions for Mathematics Research Experience for Undergraduates
(M.A. Peterson, Y.A. Rubinstein, Eds.), World Scientific, 2016,
pp. 53-72.
(with T. Darvas)
Kiselman's principle, the Dirichlet problem for the Monge-Ampere equation, and
rooftop obstacle problems
(alternative link) ,
J. Math. Soc. Japan 68 (2016), 773--–796.
Smooth
and singular Kahler-Einstein metrics
in:
Geometric and Spectral Analysis
(P. Albin et al., Eds.),
Contemp. Math. 630, AMS and Centre Recherches Mathematiques, 2014,
pp. 45-138.
(with A. Carlotto and O. Chodosh)
Slowly converging Yamabe flows ,
Geom. & Top. 19 (2015), 1523-1568.
(with O. Chodosh, V. Jain, M. Lindsey, and L. Panchev)
On discontinuity of planar optimal transport maps ,
J. Topology & Analysis 7 (2015), 239-260.
(with S. Artstein-Avidan)
Differential analysis of polarity: Polar Hamilton-Jacobi,
conservation laws, and Monge Ampère equations ,
J. d'Analyse Math. 132 (2017),
133-156.
(with I.A. Cheltsov)
Asymptotically log Fano varieties ,
Adv. Math. 285 (2015), 1241-1300.
(with R. Mazzeo and N. Sesum)
Ricci flow on surfaces with conic singularities ,
Analysis and PDE 8 (2015), 839-882.
(with R. Mazzeo)
The Ricci continuity method for the complex Monge-Ampere equation,
with applications to Kahler-Einstein edge metrics ,
C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris 350 (2012), 693-697.
(with S. Zelditch)
The Cauchy problem
for the homogeneous Monge-Ampere equation, III. Lifespan ,
Crelle's J. 724 (2017), 105-143.
(with R. Mazzeo and T. Jeffres)
Kahler-Einstein metrics with edge singularities ,
(with an appendix by C. Li and Y.A. Rubinstein),
Annals of Math. 183 (2016), 95-176.
(with B. Clarke)
Conformal deformations of the Ebin metric and a generalized Calabi metric
on the space of Riemannian metrics ,
Ann. IHP Anal. Non Lineaire 30 (2013), 251-274.
(with B. Clarke)
Ricci flow and the metric
completion of the space of Kahler metrics ,
Amer. J. Math. 135 (2013), 1477-1505.
(with S. Zelditch)
The Cauchy problem for the
homogeneous Monge-Ampere equation, II. Legendre transform ,
Adv. Math. 228 (2011), 2989-3025.
(with S. Zelditch)
The Cauchy problem for the
homogeneous Monge-Ampere equation, I. Toeplitz
quantization , J. Differential Geom. 90 (2012), 303-327.
(with I. Rodnianski and G. Staffilani)
On the global well-posedness of the one-dimensional Schrodinger map
flow , Analysis and PDE 2 (2009), 187-209.
(with S. Zelditch)
Bergman approximations of harmonic maps into the space of Kahler metrics on toric
varieties , J. Symp. Geom. 8 (2010), 239-265.
Geometric quantization and dynamical constructions on the
space of Kahler metrics , Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008.
Some discretizations of geometric evolution equations and the Ricci iteration
on the space of Kahler metrics , Adv. Math. 218 (2008), 1526-1565.
On the construction of Nadel multiplier ideal sheaves and the limiting behavior
of the Ricci flow ,
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 361 (2009), 5839-5850.
The Ricci iteration and its
applications , C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 345 (2007), 445-448.
On energy
functionals, Kahler-Einstein metrics, and the
Moser-Trudinger-Onofri neighborhood , J. Funct. Anal. 255, special issue
dedicated to Paul Malliavin (2008), 2641-2660.
(with M. Peterson)
Turbulence on a desktop ,
Comp. Sci. Eng. 3 (2001), 86-94.
(with S. Gueron)
The minimal reversible coagulation-fragmentation process having no factorized coagulation and
fragmentation rates, Markov Process. Related Fields 6 (2000), 257-264.
(with H. Bailey)
A Variety of Triangle Inequalities ,
College Math. J. 31 (2000), 350-355.
Errata list for my articles
Seminars
JHU-UMD
Complex Geometry Seminar
Informal
Geometric Analysis Seminar
Distinguished Lecture Series in Geometric Analysis
Seminars in the Department.
Teaching
2022-2023
History
of Mathematics
(course 274, Fall 2022).
Topics in Geometric Analysis: the Mahler Conjectures
(course 848V, Fall 2022).
2021-2022
History
of Mathematics
(course 274, Fall 2021).
Topics in Differential Geometry
(course 848Y, Fall 2021).
2020-2021
Introduction
to Number Theory
(course 406, Spring 2021):
TTh 9:30am.
History
of Mathematics
(course 274, Fall 2020):
TTh 2pm.
Complex Surfaces
(course 848Y, Fall 2020):
TTh 12:30pm.
2019-2020
Topics in Differential Geometry
(course 20204211,
Fall 2020):
M 1:15, W 16:15, Goldsmith 208.
2018-2019
Introduction
to Number Theory
(course 406, Fall 2018):
MWF 12pm, MATH 0307.
Geometric
microlocal analysis
(course 848G, Fall 2018):
MWF 2pm, MATH 2300.
2017-2018
Differential
Equations for Scientists and Engineers (honors)
(course 246H, Spring 2018):
TuTh 12:30pm, MATH 1308.
Geometric Analysis
(course 742, Fall 2017):
TTh 2pm, MATH B0431.
2016-2017
Differential
Equations for Scientists and Engineers (honors)
(course 246H, Spring 2017):
TuTh 12:30pm, MATH 1308.
Differential
Equations for Scientists and Engineers (honors)
(course 246H, Fall 2016):
TuTh 12:30pm, MATH 0304.
2015-2016
Differential
Equations for Scientists and Engineers (honors)
(course 246H, Fall 2015):
MWF 10am, MATH 1311.
Topics in fully nonlinear
PDE
(course 858Y, Fall 2015):
MWF 12 noon, MATH 1313.
2014-2015
Geometric Analysis
(course 742, Fall 2014):
TTh 9:30am, MATH 0104.
Topics in Complex Analysis: Kahler
Manifolds
(course 868K, Fall 2014):
TTh 12:30am, EGR 3114.
2013-2014
Geometric Analysis
(course 742, Fall 2013):
TTh 11am, MATH 1308.
Differential Geometry of
Curves and
Surfaces I
(course 436, Fall 2013):
TTh 2pm, MATH B0421.
2012-2013
Topics in
Geometric Analysis: The Yamabe Problem
(course 748F, Spring 2013):
TTh 2pm.
Geometry
(course 430, Fall 2012):
TTh 2pm.
2011-2012
Undergraduate
research project: Optimal Transportation
(SURIM, Summer 2012).
Introduction
to Optimal Transportation (course 287, Winter 2012, at Stanford):
MWF 11am.
Linear
Algebra and Differential Calculus of Several Variables
(course 51, Autumn 2011, at Stanford):
MWF 11am and 1:15pm.
2009-2010
Partial
Differential Equations (course 256A, Spring 2010, at Stanford):
MWF 2:15pm.
Complex
Analysis, Geometry, and Topology (course 215A, Autumn 2009, at Stanford):
TTh 2:15pm.
2008-2009
Riemannian
Geometry (course 110.645, Fall 2008, at JHU).
Past Seminars
2009-2012 (Stanford):
Geometry Seminar.
2008-2009 (JHU):
Complex
Geometry Seminar.
Informal
graduate student seminar on Kahler geometry through examples.
2005-2006 (MIT):
Graduate
Student Seminar on Geometric
Stability in Differential
Geometry.
Mailing address:
University of Maryland
Department of Mathematics
4176 Campus Drive
College Park, MD 20742-4015, USA
Office: Mathematics Building.