Maria Podkopaeva // Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

Web development: HTML, CSS, RSS, essentials of javascript, jQuery, MySQL, PHP;
Experience with Drupal, Wordpress

Graphic design: Advanced knowledge of Adobe Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop

2007-2012: graduate school at the Mathematics department of the University of Geneva; PhD thesis "Planar networks and inequalities on eigenvalues", advisor Prof. Anton Alekseev

2006-2007: Master Class "Symplectic Geometry and beyond" at the Utrecht University

2002-2006: baccalaureat at the Physics department of the St. Petersburg State University; Bachelor thesis "Integrable systems on the coadjoint orbits of the symplectic and orthogonal groups", advisor Prof. Anton Alekseev

1992-2002: school in St. Petersburg (Russia), Essen (Germany), and Mt. Pleasant (MI, USA)

2021 / 05-07: Google Project Management: by Google (Coursera Specialization). Certificate earned on July 15, 2021

2019 / 10,11: Online courses on essential and advanced Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator, 30hrs, by Daniel W. Scott, Adobe certified instructor

2019 / 10: "Business Writing", "Graphic Design" and "Successful Presentation" (within Effective Communication specialization) by University of Colorado Boulder

in administration:

2020-: project manager for Carmin.tv at IHES
Duties: launch and management of Carmin.tv - audiovisual platform for mathematics and interactions (joint project of CIMPA, CIRM, IHES, IHP).

2014-2018: science officer of National Center of Competence in Research SwissMAP
Duties: head of the management team, responsible for: budget planning, reporting to the Swiss National Science Foundation, organization of the day-to-day activities within the NCCR, interaction with the NCCR network, strategic management of non-scientific activities: educational outreach, communication, equal opportunities, etc.

2012-2014: science administrator of the Chebyshev Lab, Mathematics department of the Saint Petersburg State University
Duties: scientific reporting, writing grant proposals for lab funding, etc.

in research

2014-2018: senior research associate (collaboratrice scientifique II) at the Mathematics department, University of Geneva

2012-2016: researcher at the Chebyshev Lab, Mathematics department of the Saint Petersburg State University (part time from 2014)

2007-2012: assistant at the Mathematics department, University of Geneva

(co)organizer:

speaker:

"The Horn problem and planar networks", February 8-12, 2016, Integrable random systems, representation theory and geometry of Lie groups
"Horn problem and planar networks", June 10-14, 2013, IRMA (Strasbourg), Cluster Algebras and Tropical Geometry
"Eigenvalues and planar networks", October 23, 2012, Chebyshev Lab (St. Petersburg), Seminar "Enumerative combinatorics and random matrices"
"Eigenvalues and planar networks", May 15, 2012, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (Bonn), Seminar on Algebra, Geometry and Physics
"Tropical analog of the Gelfand-Zeitlin integrable system", December 25, 2011, Steklov Institute (St. Petersburg), Quantum Field Theory seminar
"Denominators of rational Drinfeld associators", October 13, 2011, Higher School of Economics (Moscow), seminar "Combinatorics of Vassiliev invariants"
"Drinfeld associators and Rouviere's problem", May 5, 2011, Univeristy of Geneva, PhD student talks
"Drinfeld associators and multizetas" (together with Anton Alekseev), February, 2009, Geneva-Lyon Winter School in Mathematical Physics

non-research:

“Supporting Young Researcher Families in Switzerland”, Young Mathematicians Column, EMS Newsletter No. 108, June 2018.

research:

Anton Alekseev, Masha Podkopaeva, Andras Szenes. A symplectic proof of the Horn inequalities. Advances in Mathematics 318 (2017) 711-736 (arXiv:1410.3149)
Anton Alekseev, Masha Podkopaeva, Andras Szenes. The Horn problem and planar networks. Advances in Mathematics 318 (2017) 678-710 (arXiv:1207.0640)
Anton Alekseev, Masha Podkopaeva, Pavol Severa. On rational Drinfeld associators. 2010, Selecta Math. (N.S.), Vol. 17, No. 1, 47-65 (arXiv:1002.2331)
Maria Podkopaeva. On the Jacobson element and generators of the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{grt}$ in nonzero characteristic. 2008, J. Lie Theory 21 (2011), No. 1, 071-078(arXiv:0812.0772)