Room 2-089
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Steven Sivek
MIT Department of Mathematics
MIT Department of Mathematics
Curriculum vitae
- Education
- Jun. 2006 – present, Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics, MIT
- Advisor: Tom Mrowka
- Research interests: knot theory, gauge theory, low-dimensional topology
- Sep. 2002 – Jun. 2006, S.B. in Mathematics, S.B. in Computer Science and Engineering, MIT
- Jun. 2006 – present, Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics, MIT
- Publications
- Some plethysm results related to Foulkes' conjecture, Electron. J. Combin. 13 (2006), #R24.
- On the Sn-modules generated by partitions of a given shape (with Daniel Kane), Electron. J. Combin. 15 (2008), #R111.
- Conferences attended
- Knot theory: Fifty years since Fox and Milnor, Brandeis University, June 2–5, 2008
- Contact structures, dynamics and the Seiberg-Witten equations in dimension 3, MSRI, June 9–13, 2008
- Georgia International Topology Conference, University of Georgia, May 18–29, 2009
- Awards and honors
- Bronze medal, 2001 International Olympiad in Informatics
- Rank 17–24, 2005 William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Exam
- Member, MIT Phi Beta Kappa
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellow, 2006 – 2009
- NSF Graduate Research Fellow, 2006 – present
- Miscellaneous
- Fluent in Spanish, limited ability in Romanian