Currently: crypto researcher at cyber•Fund Previously: mathematician at Stony Brook Email: artofkot [ат] gmail.com, telegram: @artofkot
2023-today: crypto researcher at cyber•Fund
2013-2023: mathematician in the US (PhD in Princeton, then postdocs in Indiana University and Stony Brook).
2004-2013: math student in Moscow (high-school #57, then BA+MA in Lomonosov MSU).
1991: born in Yerevan, on the same day when Armenia declared its independence from the USSR.
Apart from crypto and math I also like game go (~1dan), chess, volleyball, table tennis. I also have some programming experience:
- Built (with Alex) an online platform for learning math; source code.
- Implemented a python package to work with type DA bimodules.
For more details, take a look at my CV
My work is at the intersection of symplectic geometry and low-dimensional topology. I use methods from bordered Heegaard Floer homology and Fukaya categories to study invariants of such objects as 3-manifolds, knots, mapping classes of surfaces.
In particular, these methods yield geometric invariants of 4-ended tangles, in the form of immersed curves on the boundary 4-punctured sphere. Currently, I think about knot theoretic applications of these immersed curve invariants, in the context of Khovanov, Heegaard Floer and instanton Floer theories. Take a look at my research statement and papers below for more details.
Teachers and collaborators:
Taras Panov (undergraduate adviser), Zoltán Szabó (PhD adviser), Claudius Zibrowius, Liam Watson, Tye Lidman, Allison Moore, Paul Kirk, Guillem Cazassus, Chris Herald.
Preprints:
- Immersed curves in Khovanov homology ( video | slides )
- Khovanov multicurves are linear
- Thin links and Conway spheres
- Khovanov invariants via Fukaya categories: the tangle invariants agree
Publications:
- Cosmetic operations and Khovanov multicurves To appear in Mathematische Annalen.
- The correspondence induced on the pillowcase by the earring tangle ( video | slides ) To appear in Journal of Topology.
- A mnemonic for the Lipshitz-Ozsváth-Thurston correspondence To appear in Algebraic & Geometric Topology.
- Khovanov homology and strong inversions To appear in The Open Book Series.
- Bordered theory for pillowcase homology Mathematical Research Letters 26(5), 1467-1516.
- Comparing homological invariants for mapping classes of surfaces Michigan Mathematical Journal 30(3), 503-560.
- Minimal and Hamiltonian-minimal submanifolds in toric geometry Journal of Symplectic Geometry 14(2), 431-448.
More:
- Blockchains: theory and applications () Stony Brook University, Fall’22Blockchain course
This course is an introduction to modern cut-and-paste techniques in knot theory, with a focus on Khovanov homology. Namely, we learn how Khovanov homology changes if one substitutes one 4-ended tangle in a knot with another. Examples of such an operation are Conway mutation and crossing changes.
Here are the main references we use: definition of Khovanov homology, s-invariant, Khovanov homology for tangles, Lagrangian Floer homology for curves, Khovanov homology for tangles via immersed curves.
We cover all this material from a modern viewpoint, using the latest developed algebraic tools. But no special background is needed, all the needed homological algebra is introduced.
- Calculus I ( lecture notes ) Indiana University, Fall’20
- Linear Algebra and Applications ( lecture notes ) Indiana University, Spring’20
- Linear Algebra with Applications ( lecture notes ) Princeton University, Spring’17 + Fall’16
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