EDUCATION
Ph.D., Mathematics
California Institute of Technology
Thesis: "Rotational spectrum of planar domains"
Advisor: Dr. Nikolai G. Makarov
June 1997
B.Sc., M.S., Mathematics (with honors)
St. Petersburg State University
Thesis: "A theorem on correction up to gradients of harmonic functions."
Advisor: Dr. Alexei B. Aleksandrov
July 1992
POSITIONS HELD
Assistant Professor
University of Toronto 2004 - present
Visiting Assistant Professor
Yale University 2002 - 2003
Visitor
Mittag-Leffler Institute 2002
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2001 - 2005
Member
Institute for Advanced Study 1998 - 1999
Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor
Harvard University 1997 - 2001
PUBLICATIONS

"Weak convergence of charges ".   Vestnik Leningrad Univ. Math. 24 (1991), no. 1, 13 - 18.

"A theorem on correction up to gradients of harmonic functions ".   St.-Petersburg Math. Journal 5 (1994), no. 2, 91 - 107.

"Rotational spectrum of planar domains". PhD Thesis, 1997.

"Harmonic measure and rotation of planar domains". Preprint

"Phase transition for the universal bounds on the integral means spectrum". Preprint

"Asymptotic for the integral mixed spectrum of the basin of attraction of infinity for the polynomials z(z+δ)".  Preprint

(With N. Makarov and S. Smirnov) "Harmonic measure and polynomial Julia sets".   Duke Mathematical Journal 117 (2003), no. 2, 343--365

(With L. De Marco) "Dimension of pluriharmonic measure for Julia sets ".   International Math Research Notes 2003:11 (2003) 613 - 625

(With B. Duplantier) "Harmonic Measure and Winding of Conformally Invariant Curves ".   Physical Review Letters 89, 264101 (2002)

(With P. Jones) "Harmonic measure and polynomial Julia sets: strong fractal approximation ".   In preparation

(With L. De Marco) "Dimension of pluriharmonic measure and endomorphisms of CPn ".   In preparation

(With D. Beliaev) "Correcton theorem for Riesz potentials ".   In preparation

AWARDS AND HONORS
NSERC DISCOVER grant 5810-2004-298433 2004 - 2009
Research Board Award, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2001
NSF grant DMS-9970283, Principal Investigator 1999 - 2002
Clark and Cooke grants, Harvard 1997, 2000
Tozier grant, Harvard 1997
Alfred P. Sloan foundation Fellowship 1996 - 1997
Bohnenblust Travel Prize, Caltech  1993 - 1995
Special Institute Fellowship, Caltech 1993, 1996
Tchebyshev fellowship, St. Petersburg State University 1989-1992
All-Soviet Mathematical Olympiad for college students, Special prize 1988
International Mathematical Olympiad, Silver Medal 1987
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Yale University
Stochastic Loewner Evolution Fall 2002
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Differential Equations and Orthogonal Functions Spring 2004
Advanced Calculus Fall 2003
Multivariable Calculus Fall 2001
Introductory Real Analysis Fall 2001
Harvard University
Undergraduate course in Complex Analysis and Applications Spring 2001
Graduate course in Harmonic Measure Spring 2001
Undergraduate course in Sets, Groups and Topology Fall 2000
Graduate course in Complex Analysis Fall 1999 – Spring 2000
Undergraduate course in Complex Analysis Fall 1999
Graduate course in Real Analysis Fall 1997 – Spring 1998
Freshman Calculus Fall 1997
California Institute of Technology
Teaching Assistant for Undergraduate Calculus 1992 - 1996
Teaching Assistant for graduate courses in Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, Statistics, and Classical Analysis 1992 - 1995
St.-Petersburg State University
Instructor for Undergraduate Mathematical Analysis 1991 - 1992
Instructor in Mathematical High School 1987 - 1992
CONFERENCE TALKS
1st Joint CMS-SFR Meeting 2004
" AMS Meeting", Columbus, Ohio 2004
"Scaling in Probability and PDE", Strobl, Austria 2002
"Probability and Conformal Mappings", Tenerife, Spain 2002
Euroconference in Geometric Function Theory 2000
Barrett Memorial Lectures, University of Tennessee 1998
"Ergodic theory and dynamical systems", Warsaw, Poland 1995
Semi-annual Workshop in Dynamical Systems, Penn State 1995
RECENT SEMINAR AND COLLOQUIUM TALKS
Texas A&M University 2004
University oif Geneva 2004
Yale University, Hahn Lecture 2003
University of Connecticut 2003
University of Toronto 2003
Instititute Henri Poincare 2003
University of Chicago 2003
Yale University 2002
University of Toronto 2002
University Paris-Sud 2002
Mittag-Leffler Institut 2002
University of Indiana 2001
University of Toronto 2001
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2001
SUNY, Stony Brook 2001
Cornell University 2001
UIPUI 2001
Northwestern University 2001
University of Washington 2001
Brown University 2000
Kansas State University 2000
Florida State University 2000
McGill University 2000