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Evgeny Smirnov is a Visiting Associate Professor at GTIIT, on sabbatical leave from the Faculty of Mathematics of HSE University and the Independent University of Moscow, Russia.
Dr Smirnov received his Ph.D. from University of Grenoble I (Université Joseph Fourier) in France and Lomonossov Moscow State University in Russia, under the joint supervision of Michel Brion and Ernest Vinberg. Prior to that he got a M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the Independent University of Moscow and Lomonossov Moscow State University. In 2007-2009 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics of the University of Bonn, in Germany.
His research interests are focused on algebraic combinatorics and its relations to algebraic geometry, especially geometry of varieties with group actions (toric varieties, spherical varieties, in particular, Grassmannians and flag varieties) and representation theory.
