Curriculum Vitae
Miljan Brakočević

Personal data: Born : July 1981 in Pančevo, Serbia (then Yugoslavia)
Nationality: Montenegrin

Education UCLA, PhD Student in Mathematics (2005-Present)
  • MSc degree awarded in June of 2006
  • Advanced to doctoral candidacy in June of 2008
University of Belgrade, BSc in Mathematics (2000-2004)
  • Anlave and B. Nikitović Awards for Best Student of Generation of University of Belgrade
  • GPA 10.00 out of 10.00 possible
Mathematical High School in Belgrade, graduated with highest honors

Academic visits

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (06/2003-09/2003, 04/2005)

Moscow State University, Russia (09/2003-01/2004)
Academic employment UCLA, Teaching Assistant (2005-Present)
Leading discussion sections for various undergraduate courses. Duties include proctoring and grading exams as well as holding regular office hours and working in the Student Math Center.

CANADA/USA Mathcamp 2006, Mentor (summer of 2006)
5-week-long summer program for mathematically talented high school students from all over the world held that particular year at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.

University of Belgrade, Teaching Assistant (2004-2005)
Led discussion sections for undergraduate courses: Real Analysis 3 (Measure Theory and Integration, Functional Analysis), Real Analysis 1 and Mathematics 1 for Physics Students. Duties included assigning, proctoring and grading written exams as well as holding regular office hours.

Conferences

  • Représentation p-adiques des groupes p-adiques, Jussieu, Paris (07/2008)
  • Instructional Conference on Representation Theory and Arithmetic, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (05/2008)
  • Recent Developments in Number Theory: Selmer Groups, L-functions, and Galois Deformations, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (03/2008)
  • Southern California Number Theory Day, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA (10/2007)
  • Iwasawa Summer School, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada (08/2007)
  • Arizona Winter School 2007: p-adic geometry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (03/2007)
  • Automorphic Galois Representations, L-functions and Arithmetic, Columbia University, New York City, NY (06/2006)
  • Number Theory and Random Matrix Theory, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY(05/2006)
  • Symposium Lie Groups: from Topology to Arithmetic in Memory of Armand Borel, ETH Zürich and Université de Genéve, Switzerland (06/2005)
Hobbies: Travel
Swimming, Running, Basketball, Soccer, Hiking
Cooking
Classical Music