Curriculum Vitae (including publication list and teaching experience)

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1 Curriculum Vitae (including publication list and teaching experience) Last name : Vdovina First name : Alina Address : School of Mathematics and Statistics Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU Alina.Vdovina@ncl.ac.uk Professional appointments: Since November 2004 Lecturer at Newcastle University Lise-Meitner Habilitation fellowship, University of Bonn, Germany Visiting assistant professor, SUNY Binghamton, USA Visiting professor, Max-Planck-Institute für Mathematik, Bonn, Germany ATER at ENS of Lyon, UMPA, France NATO fellowship at Institute Fourier, Grenoble, France Assistant professor, Technical University Podillia, Khmelnitskiy, Ukraine. Education, diploma, PhD : Habilitation Bonn University PhD Thesis Moscow State University, Academic adviser: Professor A. Yu. Olshanskiy. June 1992 Diploma of Moscow State University. Member of the London Mathematical Society Council Member of the LMS Programme committee Published or accepted papers : 1. O. Kharlampovich, A. Mohaeri, A. Taam, A. Vdovina, Quadratic equations in hyperbolic groups are NP-complete, accepted in Transactions of the AMS. 2. J. Stix, A. Vdovina, Simply transitive quaternionic lattices of rank 2 over F q (t) and a non-classical fake quadric, accepted in Math.Proc.Camb.Phil.Soc. 1

2 3. N. Boston, N. Barker, N. Peyerimhoff, A. Vdovina, Infinite family of mixed Beauville groups, accepted in IMRN. 4. J. Stix, A. Vdovina, Series of p-groups with Beauville structure, accepted in Monatsh. Math. 5. R. Kangaslampi, A. Vdovina, Hyperbolic buildings without genus two periodic planes, accepted in Experimental Mathematics. 6. L.Bromberg, V.Shpilrain, A.Vdovina, Navigating in the Cayley graph and applications to hashing, accepted in Semigroup Forum. 7. J. Konter, A. Vdovina Classifying polygonal algebras by their K 0 -group, Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc., 58 (2015), no. 2, N. Barker, N. Boston, N. Peyerimhoff, A. Vdovina, Regular Algebraic Surfaces, Ramification Structures and Projective Planes, Beauville Surfaces and Groups, Springer, 2015, R. Blok, C. Hoffman, A. Vdovina, Expanders graphs from Curtis-Tits groups, Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 119 (2012), N. Barker, N. Boston, N. Peyerimhoff, A. Vdovina, New examples of Beauville surfaces, Monatsh. Math. 166 (2012), no. 3-4, O. Kharlampovich, A. Vdovina, Linear estimates for solutions of quadratic equations in free groups, Internat. J. Algebra Comput. 22 (2012), no. 1, , 16 pp. 12. L. Carbone, R. Kangaslampi, A. Vdovina, Groups acting simply transitively on hyperbolic buildings, LMS J.Math.Comp. v.15 (2012), G. Daskolopoulos, C. Mese, A. Vdovina, Superrigidity of hyperbolic buildings, Geometric and Functional Analysis 21, no.4 (2011), N. Peyerimhoff, A. Vdovina, Cayley graph expanders and groups of finite width, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 215,no.11 (2011), M. Edjvet, A. Vdovina, On the SQ-universality of groups with special presentations, Journal of Group Theory 13 (2010), no.6, A. Duncan, A. Vdovina, Square free words as products of commutators, Groups Geom. Dyn. 3 (2009), no. 3, G. Cornelissen, M. Marcolli, K. Reihani, A. Vdovina, Noncommutative geometry on trees and buildings, 73 98, Aspects Math., E38, Friedr. Vieweg, Wiesbaden, R. Kangaslampi, A. Vdovina, Cocompact actions on hyperbolic buildings, Internat.J.Algebra Comput. 20 (2010), no.4, A. Vdovina, On the number of optimal surfaces, The Zieschang Gedenkschrift, , Geom. Topol. Monogr., 14, Geom. Topol. Publ., Coventry, R. Kangaslampi, A. Vdovina, Triangular hyperbolic buildings, C.R.Acad.Sci.Paris,Ser.1, 342(2006),

3 21. A. Vdovina, Groups, periodic planes and hyperbolic buildings, Journal of Group Theory, 8 (2005), no. 6, A. Stoimenow, A. Vdovina, Counting alternating knots by genus, Math.Ann.333, 1 27, A. Vdovina, Polyhedra with specified links. Séminaire de Théorie Spectrale et Géométrie, Grenoble, Vol. 21,37 42, A. Vdovina, Combinatorial structure of some hyperbolic buildings, Math. Z. 241, No. 3, (2002). 25. R. Bacher, A. Vdovina, Counting 1-vertex triangulations of oriented surfaces, Discrete Math. 246, No.1-3, (2002). 26. A. Stoimenow, V. Tchernov, A. Vdovina, The canonical genus of a classical and virtual knot, Geom. Dedicata 95, (2002). 27. C. Bailly, A. Vdovina, Sous-espaces déterminant l invariant de Arf et Théorème de Rohlin sur la signature, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Série 1, 330, (2000). 28. A. Vdovina, Products of commutators in free products, Int. J. Algebra Comput. 7, No.4, (1997). 29. A. Vdovina, E. Selivanova, Locally minimal networks on surfaces of constant negative curvature, Mosc. Univ. Math. Bull. 52, No.6, 8-10 (1997); translation from Vestn. Mosk. Univ., Ser. I 1997, No.6, (1997). 30. A. Vdovina, On the number of nonorientable Wicks forms in a free group, Proc. R. Soc. Edinb., Sect. A 126, No.1, (1996). 31. A. Vdovina, Constructing of orientable Wicks forms and estimation of their number, Commun. Algebra 23, No.9, (1995). 32. A. Vdovina, Products of squares in a free group, Mosc. Univ. Math. Bull. 49, No.1, (1994); translation from Vestn. Mosk. Univ., Ser. I 1994, No.1, (1994). Submitted papers : 1. I. Ivrissmitsis, N. Peyerimhoff, A. Vdovina, Trivalent expanders and Riemann surfaces, arxiv 2. W. Norledge, A. Thomas, A. Vdovina Maximal torsion-free subgroups of certain lattices of hyperbolic buildings and Davis complexes, arxiv Conference organisation: 1. Organiser of Geometry and Computation on Groups and Complexes, June 2016, Newcastle. 2. Organiser of LMS Durham Symposium Graph Theory and Interactions July 2013; 3

4 3. Organiser of Beauville surfaces and groups, June 2012, Newcastle; 4. Co-organiser of a satellite meeting for EMC2012, July 2012, Krakow. 5. Co-organiser of BMC2006, Newcastle; Edited book Beauville surfaces and groups with I.Bauer and S.Garion, published by Springer in Grants and awards of Alina Vdovina for past 8 years: 1. Global Excellence fund, awarded by Newcastle University, 2016, 10K. 2. LMS scheme 4,2013, EP/K016687/1, , Topology, Geometry and Laplacians of Simplicial Complexes, joint with Durham, Newcastle +Durham 520K. 4. LMS conference grant, 2012, EPSRC collaboration award,2012, Co-investigator of the EPSRC funded project EP/F014945/1, Quantum Computation: Foundation, Security, Cryptography and Group Theory, 277K, June 2008-May 2011 (Andrew Duncan is PI, Sarah Rees is another CI) 7. LMS small grants in 2008 and 2009, 600 each 8. Lise-Meitner award of the government of Nord-Rhein-Westfalen, , Euro Research students: Stacey Aston, finished MPhil February 2014, Nathan Barker (joint with Sarah Rees), finished 2012 Research assistant supervision (Shiping Liu) October October 2016 David Cushing, Temporary post-doctoral contract, October December 2015; William Norledge, started October 2014 Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, awarded September 2014 Selected teaching experience: Courses at Newcastle University : Enumeration and combinatorics (2nd year) Algebraic Topology (4th year) Geometries and Designs (3d year) Discrete mathematics (1st year) 4

5 Bonn University, spring 2004 : graduate course Geometric Group Theory Research interests Geometry and analysis on groups acting on buildings Graph Theory Fundamental groups of algebraic varieties Geometry of Riemann surfaces Knot theory Constructing C*-algebras and computing their K-theory Noncommutative geometry and operator theory Geometric and combinatorial group theory Selected international conferences since 2004 (invited speaker) Applications of operator algebras: order, disorder and symmetry, ICMS, Edinburgh, June Structure of operator algebras: subfactors and fusion categories, Cambridge, January Equations and formal languages in algebra, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, March GAGTA, Luminy, France, September Expanders everywhere, Neuchatel, Switzerland, December Geometry of ball quotients, Kumamoto, Japan, July Geometry of computation in groups, Vienna, April Groups, Geometry, Gulf, March 2014, Pensacola, USA. Groups acting on rooted trees and beyond, IHP, Paris, February Classifying structures for operator algebras, Aberystwyth, September Geometric and Asymptotic Group Theory, New York, May Topology and Geometry on Samos, Samos, Greece, June Geometry and analysis on groups and graphs, Oxford, November GAGTA, Montreal, August 2010 Aperiodic order, Leicester, September

6 Satellite conference of the fifth European Congress, Amsterdam, Geometry and Groups, July 2006,Bonn, Germany. Geometric Group Theory, CIRM, Luminy, France, September Buildings and curvature, Oberwolfach, Germany, May Selected research visits (1 month or more) July 2006, June 2010, April 2014, July 2015, July 2016 MPI-Bonn, Germany; August 2009, Visiting fellow of the Newton Institute, Cambridge; March-April 2010, April 2015 IHES, Paris, France ; August 2010, CIRM, Montreal, Canada ; May-June 2013, Brown University,Providence and CUNY, New York, USA; March-May 2016, ETH Zurich; October-December 2016, Visiting Scholar of the University of California at Berkeley, USA. January-June 2017, Visiting fellow of the Newton Institute, Cambridge. 30 invited talks at UK universities over the past 10 years: London (Imperial, UCL, Queen Mary, Birkbeck), Cambridge, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Durham, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Warwick, Nottingham, Liverpool, Southampton, Leeds, Belfast, York, Glasgow, Sheffield. 36 invited talks at universities in Germany, France, USA, Switzerland, Luxembourg over the past 15 years: Paris, Grenoble, Montpellier, Lyon, Marseille, Vannes, St-Etienne, Nancy, Bonn, Frankfurt, Bielefeld, Duesseldorf, Heidelberg, Muenster, Luxemburg, Zurich, Bern, Geneva, Fribourg, Binghamton, Boston, New York. Administration Member of the Faculty Equality and Diversity Committee; Stage 2 DPD; Library committee chair; External PhD examiner: Manchester University 2006, Durham University 2013, Birmingham University 2013, Manchester University 2015, University of Frankfurt Organiser of the Geometry and Algebra Seminar at Newcastle; Organiser of the Geometry Seminar, Bonn University and MPI Bonn; 6

7 Referee for LMS journals, Journal of Combinatorial Theory(B), Discrete Mathematics, Geometriae Dedicata, Illinois Journal of Mathematics, Int. Math.Res.Letters, Journal of Group Theory, International Journal of Algebra and Computation, Journal of Algebra. AMS reviewer. Reviewer of EPSRC proposals 7

CV of Nikolay Nikolov

CV of Nikolay Nikolov Date of Birth: 9 July 1976 Nationality: Bulgarian Address: University College, Oxford, OX1 4BH, UK. e-mail: nikolov@maths.ox.ac.uk Academic September 2012 - University Lecturer in