Curriculum Vitae

RESEARCH INTERESTS

several complex variables, pluripotential theory, complex geometry and dynamics

ACADEMIC EDUCATION AND DEGREES

09/1992-08/1997: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

09/1987-06/1991: “Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

1997: Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Dissertation title: Pluricomplex Green functions and the complex Monge-Ampère operator

Ph.D. Advisor: Professor John Erik Fornæss

1996: Master of Science in Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1991: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, “Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

08/2008-present:   Professor, Syracuse University

09/2005-12/2005: Visiting Associate Professor, University of Michigan

08/2003-08/2008: Associate Professor, Syracuse University

08/2000-08/2003: Assistant Professor, Syracuse University

08/1999-05/2000: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

06/1998-06/1999: Humboldt Research Fellow, University of Wuppertal

08/1997-05/1998: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

AWARDS AND HONORS

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 09/1996-08/1997

Humboldt Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 06/1998-06/1999

Problems in Potential Theory and Dynamics in Several Complex Variables, NSF (Analysis Program, DMS-0140627), July 1/2002-June 30/2005

Midwest Several Complex Variables Conference at Syracuse University, NSF (Analysis Program, DMS-0312087), November 1/2003-April 30/2004 (CO-PI)

Pluripotential Theory and Applications to Complex Dynamics and Number Theory, NSF (Analysis Program, DMS-0500563), June 1/2005-May 31/2009

Invited Professor, Université Paul Sabatier, June 15/2008-July 15/2008

Pluripotential Theory and Applications to Geometry, Number Theory, and Dynamics, NSF (Analysis Program, DMS-0900934), June 1/2009-May 31/2012

Research visit at University of Köln, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, May 25-June 24, 2011

Research visit at University of Köln, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, July 2012

Pluripotential Theory and Applications to Complex Geometry and Number Theory, NSF (Analysis Program, DMS-1300157), June 1/2013-May 31/2017

Pluripotential Theory and Applications to Complex Geometry and Number Theory, NSF (Analysis Program, DMS-1700011), August 1/2017-June 30/2021

Midwest Several Complex Variables Conference at Syracuse University, NSF (Analysis Program, DMS-1763456), February 1/2018-January 31/2019

Midwest Several Complex Variables Meeting, University of Notre Dame, NSF (Analysis Program, DMS-2034566), September 1/2020-August 31/2022 (Co-PI)

Pluripotential Theory and Random Complex Geometry on Compact Complex Manifolds, Simons Foundation (MPS-Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians, 853088), September 1/2021-August 31/2026

Pluripotential Theory and Random Geometry on Compact Complex Manifolds, NSF (Analysis Program, DMS-2154273), July 1/2022-June 30/2025

Tosun Terzioğlu Fellow, Sabancı University, 2023

MEMBERSHIP

1993-present: American Mathematical Society

TALKS

The Schwarzian derivative and classes of univalent functions, presented at:

Pannonian Applied Mathematical Meetings, May 1992, Budapest, Hungary

Boundary behavior of the pluricomplex Green function, presented at:

Second Annual Midwestern Conference on Complex Dynamics in Higher Dimensions, April 1996, Ann Arbor, Michigan

International Conference on Approximation and Optimization, July 1996, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Midwest Several Complex Variables Conference, October 1996, Ann Arbor, Michigan

On the dynamics of some diffeomorphisms of C2 near parabolic fixed points, presented at:

AMS National Meeting, January 1997, San Diego, California, Special Session “Geometric Function Theory in One and Several Complex Variables”

Pluricomplex Green functions for the unit ball of Cn, presented at:

Workshop on Pluripotential Theory, May 1998, Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden

Dynamics of quadratic polynomial automorphisms of C3, presented at:

Journees Complexes du Sud, November 6-8, 1998, Beaumont de Lomagne, France

Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, March 8-27, 1999

Certain classes of pluricomplex Green functions on Cn, presented at:

Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, November 9-14, 1998

Complex Analysis Seminar Bonn-Wuppertal, November 16, 1998, University of Wuppertal, Germany

AMS Meeting, April 2000, Notre Dame, Indiana, Special Session “Several Complex Variables”

Pluricomplex Green functions on Cn, presented at:

Several Complex Variables Seminar, University of Michigan, September 3, 1999

Analysis Seminar, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, October 19, 1999

On the dynamics of some polynomial automorphisms of C3, presented at:

Midwest Several Complex Variables Conference, December 1999, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Entire plurisubharmonic functions with finitely many logarithmic poles, presented at:

Complex Analysis Conference, October 2001, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Mathematics Colloquium, SUNY at Albany, November 16, 2001

Measures of transcendency for entire functions, presented at:

Complex Dynamics Conference, March 2002, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Plurisubharmonic functions on Cn with logarithmic poles in a finite set, presented at:

AMS Meeting, October 2002, Madison, Wisconsin, Special Session “Several Complex Variables”

Quasianalyticity and pluripolarity, presented at:

Midwest Several Complex Variables Conference, March 2003, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

Several Complex Variables Seminar, University of Michigan, February 21, 2005

Séminaire/GdT Géométrie et Analyse, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, May 25, 2005

Transcendence measures and algebraic growth of entire functions, presented at:

Department of Mathematics Colloquium, June 17, 2004, “Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Pluripotential Theory and its Applications, BIRS Workshop, September 4-9, 2004, Banff, Canada

Analysis Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 15, 2005

Séminaire d’Analyse, Université Paris VI, Jussieu, France, May 24, 2005

A note on the upper level sets of Lelong numbers for projective currents, presented at:

AMS National Meeting, January 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, Special Session “Complex and Functional Analysis”

Entire pluricomplex Green functions and Lelong numbers of projective currents, presented at:

Complex Analysis Seminar, Indiana University, March 9, 2005

International Conference on Complex Analysis and Related Topics, The 10th Romanian-Finnish Seminar, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 14-19, 2005

Smooth submanifolds intersecting any analytic curve in a discrete set, presented at:

Midwest Several Complex Variables Conference, April 2005, Bloomington, Indiana

Several Complex Variables Seminar, University of Michigan, October 3, 2005

Submanifolds of Cn defined by quasianalytic functions, presented at:

Séminaire d’Analyse et Géométrie Complexes, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, May 19, 2005

Invariant currents and dynamical Lelong numbers, presented at:

Scientific Session “Complex Variables”, 2005 CMS Summer Meeting, Waterloo, Canada, June 4-6, 2005

On the upper level sets of Lelong numbers of projective currents, presented at:

Several Complex Variables Seminar, University of Michigan, September 26, 2005

Upper level sets of Lelong numbers of positive closed currents on the projective space, presented at:

International Summer School in Several Complex Variables, Szczyrk, Poland, June 19-23, 2006

Overinterpolation, presented at:

Séminaire d’Analyse et Géométrie Complexes, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, November 23, 2006

Stable algebras of entire functions, presented at:

Plurikomplexa seminariet, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Djursholm, Sweden, May 13, 2008

Séminaire d’Analyse et Géométrie Complexes, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, June 19, 2008

Conference in Analysis and Geometry in Several Complex Variables, IMAR, Bucharest, Romania, June 24-28, 2008

Quasiplurisubharmonic Green functions, presented at:

Hayama Symposium on Complex Analysis in Several Variables XIII, Shonan Village Center, Japan, July 20-23, 2009

Extension of plurisubharmonic functions with growth control, presented at:

Complex Analysis and Geometry Seminar, Rutgers University, April 23, 2010

Séminaire d’Analyse et Géométrie Complexes, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, June 17, 2010

Geometric Methods of Complex Analysis, Oberwolfach, Germany, April 10-16, 2011

The Seventh Congress of Romanian Mathematicians, Brasov, Romania, June 29-July 5, 2011

Tian’s theorem for big line bundles, presented at:

Oberseminar Geometrie, Topologie und Analysis, Universität zu Köln, Germany, June 3, 2011

Equidistribution results for singular metrics on line bundles, presented at:

KAWA 3 (Winter School and Workshop in Complex Analysis and Applications), Barcelona, Spain, January 30-February 4, 2012

International Conference on Complex Analysis and Related Topics, The 13th Romanian-Finnish Seminar, Ploiesti, Romania, June 26-30, 2012

Convergence of the Fubini-Study currents for singular metrics on line bundles and applications, presented at:

Analysis Seminar, Cornell University, March 4, 2013

JHU-UMD Complex Geometry Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, March 12, 2013

Scientific Session “Complex Analysis and Complex Geometry”, 2013 CMS Winter Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, December 6-9, 2013

Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum “Symposium on Complex Analysis and Complex Dynamics”, Sanya, China, May 12-16, 2014

Geometric properties of upper level sets of Lelong numbers on projective spaces, presented at:

Workshop on Complex Analysis and Geometry, Wuhan University, China, May 20-23, 2014

Istanbul Analysis Seminar, Istanbul, Turkey, June 27, 2014

Séminaire d’Analyse et Géométrie, Université Paris VI, Jussieu, France, November 25, 2014

Extension of plurisubharmonic functions with growth control, presented at:

Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, May 27, 2014

Growth of polynomials along transcendental curves in C2, presented at:

Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, May 29, 2014

Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, May 30, 2014

Summer School “Topics in Complex Analysis: Analytic Convexity and Random Zeros”, Cologne, Germany, July 14-16, 2014

Equidistribution for sequences of line bundles on normal Kähler spaces, presented at:

International Conference on Complex Geometry and Several Complex Variables, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, May 11-15, 2015

Large N Program Series, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, June 5, 2015

2015 Taipei Conference on Complex Geometry, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 19-23, 2015

On the first order asymptotics of partial Bergman kernels, presented at:

Séminaire/GdT Géométrie Complexe, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, January 15, 2016

Northeastern Analysis Meeting, The College at Brockport, New York, October 14-16, 2016

Conference on Complex Geometry, Dynamical Systems and Foliation Theory, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, May 15-19, 2017

Workshop on d-bar at NTNU Trondheim, Norway, October 5-8, 2017

Equidistribution results for big line bundles, presented at:

Special Session “Randomness in Complex Geometry”, AMS Meeting, April 2017, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Joint Seminar on Complex Algebraic Geometry and Complex Analysis, Bochum-Essen-Köln-Wuppertal, Universität zu Köln, Germany, July 7, 2017

Equidistribution and universality results for sequences of line bundles on compact Kähler spaces, presented at:

Conference in Complex Geometry and Several Complex Variables, University of Notre Dame, March 9-11, 2018

Universality results for zeros of random holomorphic sections, presented at:

JHU-UMD Complex Geometry Seminar, University of Maryland, October 16, 2018

Analysis Seminar, Indiana University, January 16, 2019

Lelong numbers of bidegree (1,1) currents on multiprojective spaces, presented at:

Special Session on Several Complex Variables, AMS Spring Central and Western Joint Sectional Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 23, 2019

Equidistribution and universality results for sequences of holomorphic line bundles, presented at:

Séminaire d’Analyse et Géométrie, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche, Sorbonne Université, France, May 14, 2019

Holomorphic sections of line bundles vanishing along subvarieties, presented at:

Midwest Several Complex Variables Conference, University of Michigan – Dearborn, October 11-13, 2019

2019 Taipei Conference on Complex Geometry, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 15-19, 2019

AMAZER (Analysis of Monge-Ampère, a tribute to Ahmed Zeriahi), Toulouse, France, May 31-June 4, 2021

Bergman kernels in microlocal analysis and mathematical physics, CIRM, Marseille, France, November 7-11, 2022

Equidistribution for weakly holomorphic sections of line bundles on algebraic curves, presented at:

AG Random Geometry, Universität zu Köln, Germany, April 13, 2021

Virtual East-West Several Complex Variables Seminar, June 22, 2021

Extension problems for plurisubharmonic functions, presented at:

Seminar semiklassische Analysis und Darstellungstheorie, Universität zu Köln, Germany, May 24, 2022

Extension of quasiplurisubharmonic functions, presented at:

Complex Geometry, Dynamical Systems and Foliation Theory, CIRM, Marseille, France, October 17-21, 2022

Geometric Function Theory in Several Complex Variables and Complex Banach Spaces, Workshop dedicated to the memory of Professor Gabriela Kohr, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, December 1-3, 2022

Spaces of holomorphic sections vanishing along subvarieties, presented at:

The Tenth Congress of Romanian Mathematicians, Pitești, Romania, June 30-July 5, 2023

Complex Analysis and Complex Geometry Days, Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, August 23-24, 2023

Equidistribution problems for line bundles on projective manifolds, presented at:

Mathematics Colloquium, Complex Analysis and Complex Geometry Days, Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, August 23-24, 2023

Geometric Function Theory in Several Complex Variables and Complex Banach Spaces, Workshop dedicated to the memory of Professor Gabriela Kohr, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, December 1-3, 2023

Restricted spaces of holomorphic sections vanishing along subvarieties, presented at:

Geometric and Topological Properties of Random Algebraic Varieties, Universität zu Köln, Germany, October 4-6, 2023

2023 Taipei Conference on Complex Geometry, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, December 11-15, 2023

Geometry Seminar, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, March 14, 2024

Zeros of random holomorphic sections of big line bundles with continuous metrics, presented at:

Complex Geometry, Dynamics and Probability, Lille, France, July 8-9, 2024