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My education and experience:
B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia 1993
Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL 2002
I joined the faculty of Siena College in 2005 after a 3-year visiting instructor position at International University Bremen (now known as Jacobs University Bremen) in Germany.
Degree | Program | University |
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Ph.D. | Mathematics | University of Illinois at Chicago |
M.S. | Mathematics | University of Illinois at Chicago |
B.S. | Mathematics | St. Petersburg State University |
My Siena Experience
My Teaching Philosophy
I strongly believe that a good teacher has to understand and respect students in order to facilitate active learning and to reach every person in the class.
What I Love About Siena
I have a passion for mathematics and I love teaching it. Siena’s small learning community emphasizing dynamic faculty-student interaction creates a unique social environment where I find ample opportunities for my personal professional growth as a teacher and as a mathematician.
My Favorite Courses to Teach
Multivariable calculus (MATH 210), Foundations of Mathematics (MATH 301), Introduction to Number Theory (MATH 340), Differential Geometry (MATH 425), Topology (MATH 460), and Independent Study in Mathematics (MATH 499).
My Professional Experience
Year | Title | Organization |
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2018 - Now | Professor, Mathematics | Siena College |
2011 - 2018 | Associate Professor, Mathematics | Siena College |
2005 - 2011 | Assistant Professor, Mathematics | Siena College |
2002 - 2005 | Research Instructor, Mathematics | International/Jacobs University |
Articles & Book Reviews
- Permutations with a distinct divisor property.
Journal is not in list - being petitioned, vol. 29
2021 - Complete generalized Fibonacci sequences modulo primes
Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory, vol. 9
2020 - On the subgroup generated by solutions of Pell's equation
Journal of Number Theory, vol. 194
January, 2019 - A BASIS OF THE GROUP OF PRIMITIVE ALMOST PYTHAGOREAN TRIPLES
Journal of Algebra, Number Theory: Advances and Applications, vol. 16
2016 - A congruence property of irreducible Laguerre polynomials in two variables
INTEGERS (Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory), vol. 16
2016 - The group of primitive almost Pythagorean triples
INVOLVE Journal, vol. 6
2013 - Dynamics of folds in the plane
College Mathematics Journal, vol. 42
2011 - Folding Noneuclidean Strips of Paper
Mathematics Magazine, vol. 84
2011 - Angle Contraction between geodesics
Journal of Dynamical Systems and geometric Theories, vol. 8
2010 - Zeta[n] via hyperbolic functions
INVOLVE Journal, vol. 3
2010 - Pseudo-isotopy classes of diffeomorphisms of the unknotted pairs (Sn+2, Sn) and (S2p+2, Sp x Sp)
Illinois Journal of Mathematics, vol. 51
2007 - Relative mapping class group of the trivial and the tangent disk bundles over the sphere
Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, vol. 3
2007 - Kernel of the variation operator and periodicity of open books
Topology and its Applications, vol. 148
2005 - On the Jacobi group and the mapping class group of S3 × S3
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 355
2003
Awards & Distinctions
Almost Pythagorean Triples and Quadratic Numbers
Category: Research
SiENA COLLEGE, 2016- Group structure on the set of solutions of a certain quadratic Diophantine equation.
Category: Research
SIENA COLLEGE, 2015 - Connected derivatives of a polynomial.
Category: Research
SIENA COLLEGE, 2014 - Generators of the Group of Primitive Almost Pythagorean Triples.
Category: Research
SIENA COLLEGE, 2013 - The Groups of Almost Pythagorean Triples.
Category: Research
SIENA COLLEGE, 2011 - Knots as disjoint segments on surface plane models.
Category: Research
SIENA COLLEGE, 2010 - Multiple integrals and values of the Riemann's zeta function.
Category: Research
SIENA COLLEGE, 2009 - Convergence between two lines and the triangle at infinity.
Category: Research
SIENA COLLEGE, 2008 - Student Research Fellowship
Category: Other
University Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2000 - Student Research Fellowship
Category: Other
University Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999 - B.S. Diploma with Honors
Category: Other
St. Petersburg State University, Russia, 1993
Presentations
- Multivariable Laguerre polynomials vs. classical Laguerre polynomials
2017
Skidmore College Mathematics Colloquium, Saratoga Springs, New York - On the subgroup generated by solutions of Pell's equation and elements of order 2 in the corresponding quotient group
2017
AMS/MAA Joint Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia - Algebraic groups of solutions of two Diophantine equations a2 + mb2 = c2 and x2 - my2 = 1
2016
Siena Mathematics Colloquium, Loudonville, New York - On the subgroup generated by solutions of Pell's equation and elements of order 2 in the corresponding quotient group
2016
Meeting of the Seaway Section of the Mathematical Association of America, Rochester, New York - Multivariable Laguerre polynomials irreducible over the rationals
2015
Conversations in mathematics at RIT, Rochester, New York - A basis of the group of primitive almost Pythagorean triples
2014
AMS/MAA Joint Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland - A congruence property of irreducible Laguerre polynomials in two variables
2014
MAA Seaway Section Meeting, Alfred, New York - What happened when we tried to find the half-derivative of a polynomial
2014
Siena College Mathematics Colloquium, Loudonville, New York - Bachet's equation: From Diophantus to modern times
2012
Siena College Mathematics Colloquium, Loudonville, New York - What do Pythagorean triangles and daisies have in common?
2011
Siena College Mathematics Colloquium, Loudonville, New York - Dynamics of simple folds in a plane
2009
Siena College Mathematics Colloquium, Loudonville, New York - Dynamics of simple folds in a plane
2008
AMS central section fall meeting, Middletown, Connecticut - On extension of diffeomorphisms of an n-manifold M embedded into (n+2)-sphere
2007
Topology Research Seminar at Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, New Hampshire - The relative mapping class group of the tangent disk bundle over the standard n-sphere
2007
MAA Seaway Section Meeting, Oneonta, New York - Pseudo-isotopy classes of diffeomorphisms of the unknotted pairs (Sn+2, S^n) and (S2p+2, Sp x Sp)
2006
AMS central section spring meeting, Durham, New Hampshire - Relative mapping class group of Sp x Dq
2005
American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia - Periodicity of open books via mapping class groups
2004
Mathematics Seminar at University of Goettingen Mathematics Institute, Goettingen, Germany - On the relative mapping class groups and manifolds with simple open book decompositions
2003
Joint India AMS Mathematics Meeting, Bangalore, India - On the Jacobi group and the mapping class group of Sk x Sk
2002
International University Bremen Mathematics Colloquium, Bremen, Germany - On the Jacobi group and the mapping class group of S3 x S3
2001
AMS central section spring meeting, Irvine, California