Oded Yacobi

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at University of Toronto, working with Joel Kamnitzer. Previously, I was a postdoc at Tel Aviv University with Joseph Bernstein. I completed my Ph.D. at UC San Diego, where my advisor was Nolan Wallach. I did my undergrad at Cornell University.

My interests are in algebraic and geometric aspects of representation theory, invariant theory, algebraic combinatorics, and categorification.







Contact Information

Department of Mathematics
University of Toronto
Bahen Centre
40 St. George St.
Toronto, Ontario
CANADA
M5S 2E4

Office: BA 6120
e-mail: oyacobi@math.toronto.edu

This year (2012-2013) I am teaching Math 223-224, a year long linear algebra sequence.

My lectures:

My office hours (in BA 6120):

Past Teaching

Preprints/publications

Title Joint with Status arXiv Year
Heisenberg categorification in positive characteristic J. Hong in preparation - 2012
Yangians and quantizations of slices in the affine Grassmannian J. Kamnizter, B. Webster, A. Weekes submitted 1209.0349 2012
Polynomial functors and categorification of Fock space II Jiuzu Hong to appear in Advances in Math. 1111.5335 2011
Polynomial functors and categorification of Fock space Jiuzu Hong, Antoine Touze to appear in Progress in Mathematics (volume dedicated to Nolan Wallach) 1111.5317 2011
Polynomial representations and categorification of Fock space Jiuzu Hong to appear in Algebras and Representation Theory 1101.2456 2011
A quantum analogue of Kostant's theorem for the general linear group Avraham Aizenbud Journal of Algebra 343 (2011), pp. 183-194 1007.0133 2011
A basis for the symplectic group branching algebra Sangjib Kim Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (2011) 1005.2320 2011
Multiplicity spaces in symplectic branching - Oberwolfach report (2010) - 2010
An anlaysis of the multiplicity spaces in branching of symplectic groups - Selecta Math N.S., Volume 16, Issue 4, (2010) 0907.3247 2010
A multiplicity formula for tensor products of SL2 modules and an explicit Sp2n to Sp2n-2x Sp2 branching formula. Nolan Wallach Contemp. Math. 490 - 2009
A new related-message attack on RSA Yacov Yacobi Lecture Notes in Compu. Sc. 3386/3895 - 2005
Several Definitions of Matroids J. Blasiak, J. Rowe, L. Traldi Ars Combinatoria 77 - 2005

Education

  • UC San Diego, 2004-2009, PhD
  • Cornell University, 1999-2003, BA

Positions

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-2013, University of Toronto
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2010, Tel Aviv University

Awards

  • AMS-Simons Travel Grant, 2012-2014
  • ARCS Fellow, 2007-2009
  • Teaching Award, 2009, UC San Diego Math Dept.

Invited Talks

  • Geometry, Symmetry, and Physics Seminar, Yale University, Dec. 2012 (upcoming)
  • Ottawa-Carleton Joint Algebra Seminar, University of Ottawa, Nov. 2012 (upcoming)
  • Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar, Loyola University Chicago, Oct. 2012 (upcoming)
  • AMS special session on Geometric, Categorical and Combinatorial Methods in Representation Theory, Rochestor, Sep. 2012
  • Representation Theory Seminar, Bar Ilan University, June 2012
  • Algebraic Geometry Seminar, Queen's University, Mar. 2012
  • Lie Groups Seminar, Cornell University, Mar. 2012
  • Special Session on Trends in Representation Theory, JMM Boston, Jan. 2012
  • Applied Algebra Seminar, York University, Oct. 2011
  • Workshop on Category Theoretic Methods in Representation Theory, University of Ottawa, Oct. 2011
  • Algebra Seminar, Universite de Paris - Nord, June 2011
  • 68th Algebra Day, University of Ottawa, April 2011
  • Infinite Dimensional Algebra Seminar, MIT, April 2011
  • Lie Theory and its Applications, in honor of Nolan Wallach, UC San Diego, March 2011
  • Representation Theory and Quantization, Fields Institute, Feb. 2011
  • Geometric Representation Theory Seminar, University of Toronto, Jan. 2011
  • Algebra Seminar, Ben-Gurion University, Dec. 2010
  • Geometric Representation Theory Seminar, University of Toronto, Sep. 2010
  • Workshop on problems and progress in Lie algebraic theory, Weizmann Institute, July 2010
  • Bernstein’s Seminar, Tel Aviv University, April 2010
  • Combinatorial representation theory, Oberwolfach, March 2010
  • AGeNT seminar, Ben Gurion University, November 2009
  • Algebraic groups and Invariant Theory, Tiscino, Switzerland, September 2009
  • Combinatorics seminar, University of Washington, August 2009
  • Lie theory Days, UC Riverside, March 2009

In Fall 2012 we are running:

In Spring 2012 we ran:

In Fall 2011 we ran:

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In Fall 2010 we ran:

In May 2012 I co-organized with Chris Dodd and Alex Hoffnung a three day workshop hosted by the Fields Institute on Higher Algebraic and Geometric Structures in Representation Theory.